staggered (?.)
- agape
- aghast
- agog
- all agog
- amazed
- astonished
- astounded
- at gaze
- awed
- awestruck
- beguiled
- bendy
- bewildered
- bewitched
- bowled down
- breathless
- captivated
- chevronwise
- chevrony
- confounded
- crankled
- crooked
- curvy
- dumbfounded
- dumbstruck
- electrified
- enchanted
- enraptured
- enravished
- enthralled
- entranced
- fascinated
- flabbergasted
- flexuous
- gaping
- gauping
- gazing
- hairpin
- hypnotized
- in awe
- in awe of
- jarred
- jolted
- lost in wonder
- marveling
- mesmerized
- open-eyed
- openmouthed
- overwhelmed
- popeyed
- puzzled
- rapt in wonder
- shaken
- shocked
- shook
- spellbound
- staring
- startled
- stupefied
- surprised
- taken aback
- thunderstruck
- twisty
- under a charm
- wide-eyed
- wonder-struck
- wondering
- zigzag
- zigzaggy
- zigzagways
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
