bewilderment quotes

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

- Laurie Lee
  Cider With Rosie,'First Light'.

If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

- Sean O'Faolain
  The Irish.