And sometimes the grown-ups answer our question and make the puzzling things clear to us, sometimes they answer yet do not make the puzzling things any clearer to us, and sometimes they tell us not to trouble, that we will understand when we grow older.
And just as among little folks there are some who ask more questions and who "want to know" more than others, so among grown-ups there are some who more than others seek for the answer to those puzzling question.
Hard is the path from A to Z, And
puzzling to a curly head, Yet leads to Books--Green, Blue, and Red.
Pudd'nhead was at home waiting for them and putting in his time puzzling over a thing which had come under his notice that morning.
He was now awaiting for the twins, and still puzzling over the problem of who that girl might be, and how she happened to be in that young fellow's room at daybreak in the morning.
That's a most
puzzling expression for a natural science man, do you understand?
Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most
puzzling things in this
puzzling world.
One thing was
puzzling him, a little thing that would have puzzled the world had it known.
Here was another
puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
I went slowly along,
puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
"Yes, I have considered yours, frequently," I answered,
puzzling over what I had seen in her eyes and puzzled by her sudden change of subject.
Thus may this
puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; which is just within the bounds of possibility."