nonplus
Example Sentences
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He found cross-examinations mentally invigorating, soon learned that he could nonplus storming attorneys if he kept smiling no matter how galling their insinuations.
From Time Magazine Archive
“By Jingo, that’s a bad job,” cried the skipper, but he was not long at a nonplus.
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry
He wanted to nonplus and disconcert her, if such a thing were possible.
From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
A grand dinner, and fine company; but, talking French, and nothing but French, all the time, Mrs. D. and your humble servant were rather at a nonplus.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
But it must needs be condemned, because it renders the character of the term ambiguous, and is such a grammatical difficulty as puts the parser at a dead nonplus.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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