How To Use Confounded In A Sentence

The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
[42] Of such ministers and counselors, the holy king said that they who were confounded and ashamed should remove themselves far from him: _Avertantur statim erubescentes, qui dicunt mihi, "Euge, euge! The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
Why have those early predictions been confounded? Times, Sunday Times
But I will say, as you shall see, that he matched their subtlety with equal subtlety; and from what I saw of him I have little doubt but what he would have confounded many a disputant in the synagogues. Chapter 17
The first was entitled: "_Refutatio Samaritani Interim_, in quo vera religio cum sectis et corruptelis scelerate et perniciose confunditur -- Refutation of the Samaritan Interim, in which the true religion is criminally and perniciously confounded with the sects. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

The result of this admixture of the real and the unreal is confusion thrice confounded. The Somnambulists
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
He said that the expectation and excitement prompted by the Jubilee across the nation has confounded the cynics.
So wonderfull are these thoughts that my spirit failes in me at the consideration thereof; and I am confounded to think that God, who hath done so much for me should have so little from me. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
A solemn anathema is pronounced against Nestorius and Eutyches; against all heretics by whom Christ is divided, or confounded, or reduced to a phantom. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
Gentlewoman — query — If I am confoundedly violent who never use violence in private or public — what are the Demagogues — the Consuls the Letter 130
Partnerships are a radical intervention in a world stuck with its past(Sentence dictionary), confounded by its present and fearful of its future.
The non-identity of hypostasis and ousia is, I take it, suggested even by our western brethren, where, from a suspicion of the inadequacy of their own language, they have given the word ousia in the Greek, to the end that any possible difference of meaning might be preserved in the clear and unconfounded distinction of terms. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
However, this relationship is confounded by the effect of age; disability increases with age, as does dementia.
The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists.
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
China's foreign trade figures confounded expectations last month as exports from the country grew for the first time in nine months. Times, Sunday Times
Their comprehensive defeat was confounded even further yesterday when they visited Yorkshire Academy in the League Cup quarter-finals.
Why was she being so confoundedly stubborn about not abandoning him?
Play both, and the laughs of confounded expectation will follow. Times, Sunday Times
In this population, socially advantaged men perceived themselves to be most stressed, leading to a confounded association between higher stress and better health.
It must not, however, be confounded with greed, which is the most immediate meaning of the Latin word avaritia. On Human Nature
Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords, and by such two that would by all likelihood have confounded one the other, or have fallen both. Act I. Scene IV. Cymbeline
The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists.
She be-knaved, be-rascalled, be-rogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Then this confounded stinkpot of a bombshell burst in our midst. Lalage's Lovers
It has much general resemblance to the manatee or lamantin of the West Indies, and has been confounded with it; but the distinction between them has been ascertained by M. Cuvier, Annales du M.seum d'Histoire Naturelle 22 cahier page 308. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
I'm still confounded by how some of you manage to work full time and blog!
'Ay, and have reason to know her,' said the jockey, putting his hand into his left waistcoat-pocket, as if to feel for something, 'for she gave me what I believe few men could do -- a most confounded wapping. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'
I saw in him, with a keen longing, those features characteristic of the Guermantes, of that race which had remained so individual in the midst of a world with which it was not confounded, in which it remained isolated in the glory of an ornithomorphic divinity, for it seemed to have been the issue, in the age of mythology, of the union of a goddess with a bird. The Guermantes Way
But its office must not be confounded with that attributed to the sinister-looking scaur of Leucadia; here the erring wives of the Kings of Boma and their paramours found a Bosphorus. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
But these terms are often confounded and are taken one for the other. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Oil prices have often confounded economic forecasters. Times, Sunday Times
In hospital visiting don't charge in, make lots of noise and generally be a confounded nuisance. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
Murray Bradshaw was surprised and confounded at the easy way in which she received his compliments, and played with his advances, after the fashion of the trained ball-room belles, who know how to be almost caressing in manner, and yet are really as far off from the deluded victim of their suavities as the topmost statue of the Milan cathedral from the peasant that kneels on its floor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867
Wherefore, as Origen had carefully compared the Greek version of the Septuagint with the Hebrew text; and as he puzzled and confounded the learned Jews, by urging upon them the reading "to death" in this place; it seems almost impossible not to conclude, both from Origen's argument and the silence of his Jewish adversaries, that the Hebrew text at that time actually had the word agreeably to the version of the seventy. Evidence of Christianity
And ultimately, he would say, I'm confoundedly depressed. Get Briefed: Ron Baron
He won gold and then confounded the cynics beating the top two Americans within the next couple of weeks.
Although somewhat quiet with just 13 shots, as the Nets used more double-teams, he again confounded them with his patient, intelligent play. USATODAY.com
Tower, who died in 1315, and who has always been confounded with the fabulous Guy: and if it has disappeared, we have to regret the loss of the only specimen of an English bascinet of that period that I am aware of in this country. Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850
He confounded all opinion polls by coming second in the presidential elections, as a result of which he entered the run-off elections against him.
So that, I think, when we talk of division of bodies in infinitum, our idea of their distinct bulks, which is the subject and foundation of division, comes, after a little progression, to be confounded, and almost lost in obscurity. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
The only nervous affections with which it could possibly be confounded are chorea and paralysis agitans. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
When I say \ "bestseller\" I mean major lists: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, et al. Still, even after numerous books and a variety of lists, the \ "list\" itself still confounded me, so I decided to do a little research to find out what it really takes to hit a list. Penny C. Sansevieri: From Book to Bestseller: What It Takes To Crack The List (And Why You Might Not Want To)
He has inspired imitators, tolerated plagiarists and confounded the computer geeks who try in vain to turn his craft into software.
Poore Isabella, confounded with feare and shame, as being no way able to excuse her fault, knew not what answer to make, but standing silent, made her case compassionable to all the rest, even those hard-hearted Sisters which betrayed her. The Decameron
The huge system of the trades is, for some reason, quite confounded by this multiplicity of reefs, the wind intermits, squalls are frequent from the west and south-west, hurricanes are known. In the South Seas
No. It can scarcely be confounded with milium, as in this latter disease the lesion has no open outlet, no black point, and the contents cannot be squeezed out. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
These views must not, therefore, be confounded with what is commonly termed the telluric or atmospheric origin of meteoric stones, nor yet with the singular opinion of Aristotle, which supposed the enormous mass of Â®gos COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
I was equally confounded by the metaphors of this tome.
There are remarkable few studies of animal sex unconfounded by Puritanism. Frans de Waal: Fellating Female Fruit Bats
All this beneath a canopy of sulphur and a bedlam of sounds, like confusion confounded.
His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.
“I thought not, — I meant not,” said she, more and more confounded, “to submit to any indignity, though my pride, in an exigence so peculiar, may give way, for a while, to convenience.” Cecilia
He's absolutely incredulous about my becoming a pastor, as if it has confounded his tactics against my authority as his father and given me some extra power he is not prepared to contend with…
Hamath is confounded -- at the tidings of the overthrow of the neighboring Damascus. on the sea -- that is, at the sea; the dwellers there are alarmed. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Further, when the design is one of unusual breadth, as in some symphonic movements, or in elaborate chamber music, the number of fundamental thematic members may be so multiplied that it is necessary to assume the presence of _two successive Subordinate themes_, of equal independent significance, -- such significance that neither of them could be confounded with a mere codetta, or any other inferior thematic member. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
Some of the merchants were drowned and others made shift to reach the shore and save themselves upon the mountain; I amongst the number, and when we got ashore, we found a great island, or rather peninsula72 whose base was strewn with wreckage of crafts and goods and gear cast up by the sea from broken ships whose passengers had been drowned; and the quantity confounded compt and calculation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In particular, national desires to shift from import-replacing investments to export-creating ones may be confounded by administrative impossibility.
The reverend father Dom Calmet, a great antiquarian, that is, a great compiler of what was said in former times and what is repeated at the present day, has confounded lues with leprosy. A Philosophical Dictionary
They will also be confounded by the extent to which the Lizard King comes off as an addlebrained, self-important bore away from the studio or stage. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
This kind of destruction should not be confounded with the burning of valuables during a potlatch.
Let his confounded tenants, his rifle-associations, his drunkards, reclaimed and unreclaimed, get on as they liked.
At any rate," said Smith, "we know that the confounded stuff isn't antimagnetic, whatever it is. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
There were no towers or battlements: only the faceted tholus, climbing until it lost itself against the sky and its momentary brilliancies were confounded with the faint star's. The Shadow of the Torturer
It's unclear quite why the rebranding has taken place, and it has confounded garden historian and critic Tim Richardson, who originally coined the phrase "conceptual garden" and championed Britain's burgeoning conceptual-design scene. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
It's all right, you confounded muddlehead!" cried the Crow, losing patience with his perverse and stupid companion. For the term of his natural life
Is this then a thing of that worth, that for it my soul should suffer, and become worse than it was? as either basely dejected, or disordinately affected, or confounded within itself, or terrified? Meditations
After that I haue longe mused by my self of the sore confounded and vncertayne cours of mannys lyfe, and thinges therto belonginge: at the last The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
The condition in question is often loosely confounded with connation, or the union of two leaves by their bases. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Seele und ihr Gott_ -- these two, eternally akin, yet in their kinship unconfounded, make up the theme and the content of religion; and any attempt to obliterate the distinction between them in some monistic formula, any tendency to surrender either the Divine or the human personality, any philosophy which seeks to merge man in God and God in the {242} universe, is fatal to religion itself. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
He was so confounded at her discourse that he could not answer a word.
Of all bores in the world, your quizzing, carping, text‑torturing sceptic is the worst - next to mule driving; and those confounded mules would bore a two inch auger hole through the meekness of Moses himself, were he their master. Life in the Rocky Mountains
With competition for his signature from Holland, Spain and the lower reaches of the Premiership, it's just another reason for a move which may have confounded expectations.
This has confounded the expectation that increased affluence, education, and contact with the outside world would reduce the preference for boys.
It was a suitably surreal showpiece for a night that confounded all expectations.
Now, a little older and a little wiser, John finds himself in a very familiar predicament - having to save the world again from those confounded machines.
He finally looked at her, his expression confounded. Loving the Highlander
Beneath him, miraculously confounded with the seat, flies a speeding horse on which the man perches side-saddle.
Instead, he has confounded expectations, and his anti-corruption purge has made him something of a hero.
Which Rossiglione perceiving, hee stoode like a body without a soule, confounded with the killing of so deare a friend, losse of a chaste and honourable wife, and all through his owne overcredulous conceit. The Decameron
Having said that, she confounded my negative perceptions about modelling by being very good at it. Times, Sunday Times
Partial albinism, necessarily congenital, presenting a piebald appearance, must not be confounded with leukoderma, which is rarely seen in the young and which will be described later. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The extraordinary election results confounded the government.
Yet regulated vivisection has been confounded with antivivisection by the union of zany cranks and trade-unionized men of medicine, who have not refrained from the coercion of patients, from the deception of the public, from the inoculation of legislators with mendacity, capsuled in sophistry, and from the direct or indirect corruption or intimidation of not a few public journals. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
The researchers found that the children who knew how the old red jack-in-the-box worked that is, they had unambiguous or unconfounded information went to play with the new box. Ellen Galinsky: Give the Gift of Curiosity for the Holidays -- Lessons From Laura Schulz
So she followed him into the presence of Naomi, whom she saluted after the godliest and goodliest fashion, and, when she looked on her, she was confounded at her exceeding seemliness and said to her, “O my lady, I commend thee to the safeguard of Allah, who made thee and thy lord fellows in beauty and loveliness!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The whole secret of health, said my father, beginning the sentence again, depending evidently upon the due contention betwixt the radical heat and radical moisture within us; — the least imaginable skill had been sufficient to have maintained it, had not the school-men confounded the task, merely (as Van Helmont, the famous chymist, has proved) by all along mistaking the radical moisture for the tallow and fat of animal bodies. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
His back header confounded the makeshift Lions' back four, Brown swanning in to volley definitively into the roof of Main's net.
You just go on committing offences that are a confounded nuisance to everyone around you.
The disease which is oftenest confounded with this form of eczema is sycosis.
Beneath him, miraculously confounded with the seat, flies a speeding horse on which the man perches side-saddle.
Under the whole was that which tongue refuseth to explain, whereat was confounded the brain and whose love would embrave the craven’s strain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Sir Menzies Campbell once again confounded his critics by displaying genuine fire and passion over Iraq. Archive 2007-01-01
Guizot, the historian, speak for the political and social realm: 'All things, at their origin, are nearly confounded in one and the same physiognomy; it is only in their aftergrowth that their variety shows itself. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Wherefore is it so confoundedly free of heat and power?
So for "an unbiased and unconfounded assessment of the causal association," the researchers looked at a large prospective database covering the general population of Sweden. MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
Nor," he continues, "has he clearly marked off the functions of his two efficient forces, nay, he has so confounded them that at times it is Discord that through separation leads to new unions, and Love that through union causes diremption of that which was before. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Stone of Foundation is said, for peculiar reasons, to have been of a cubical form, must it be confounded with that stone called by the continental Masons the _cubical stone_ -- the _pierre cubique_ of the The Symbolism of Freemasonry
I will send the confounded package today - overnight - to avoid another one of those joyous little interactions.
I am proud Kitty, confoundedly proud, and you must excuse it; and I feel something more than pride, I feel new concerns, and new duties press upon me, both as to worldly affairs, and as to my reputation too. Letter 78
United's new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.
Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
We ought to pray that all their attempts against the church may be frustrated, that in them they may be confounded and turned back with shame, as those that have not been able to bring to pass their enterprise and expectation: Let them all be confounded is as much as, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Conclusions specified from this may antimoniate confounded by the sore delisting of allergies in the pyridoxine hepatocytes and asociado of tablespoons from apes investing degradation during the mitogenesis of the study. Wii-volution
It silenced his critics, confounded his doubters and forced those knife wielders to return those implements to their dusty habitats for another day.
The confounded stuff certainly looked of a biteable texture. First Men in the Moon
Laura looked at Warrington with the archest sparkle in her eyes — Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura. The History of Pendennis
This is something that has confounded the political left - in both countries. Times, Sunday Times
Here I've been shut up in this confounded house for four mortal days!
Inserting the next magazine, I was confounded when the bolt merely slid over the top round.
A man who has experienced tensions in the past as he and his international colleagues confounded all expectations to win the European Championships, beating the host nation in the final, he knew the perfect way to dissipate them.
The object of the apostle in thus writing was not to introduce the diversity of nature, but to exhibit the notion of Father and of Son as unconfounded. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
They confounded the doom-mongers who had predicted massive fraud, civil unrest and the early demise of the entire common currency project.
Mr Ahern said the end-of-year returns which showed an Exchequer surplus had confounded economists who predicted sizeable deficits.
The crosier, which is another external ornament to the shield widely made use of by ecclesiastics, must not be confounded, as it often has been, with the processional cross of an archbishop. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Likewise, those lower echelons were completely confounded with her existence.
The values that might be confounded with equality include sufficiency, priority, and desert.
His personal ratings leapt again as he confounded his critics and showed his mettle. The Sun
Mr. Dyer, that he confounded the idea of _space_ with that of _empty space_, and did not consider, that though space might be without matter, yet matter, being extended, could not be without space. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
The associations between birth weight, initiation of breast feeding, and paternal occupation were not confounded by each other.
What actually happened confounded such expectations.
Partnerships are a radical intervention in a world stuck with its past, confounded by its present and fearful of its future.
Now, in addition to all our other potentially explosive topics, the confounded holidays are here.
So she resolved to trick him and, raising her vizor, lo! her face appeared more brilliant than the full moon, which when he saw, he was confounded by her beauty and his strength failed and his spirit faltered. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But these terms are often confounded and are taken one for the other. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
I always confounded him with his twin brother.
One whose smriti, is lost means one whose conceptions of right and wrong are confounded. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Having abandoned Tosa, he was a ronin, an outlaw samurai a status which at once aided and confounded him…
L — n seemed a little confounded at this remark, and assured him it was nothing but a common excrescence of the cuticula, but that the bones were all sound below; for the truth of this assertion he appealed to the touch, desiring he would feel the part. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
He paused with swift awkwardness, again confounded by his unwonted flow of speech. Chapter 1
It is one of the real pleasures of the lower leagues that expectations are very often confounded in the most dramatic of manners. Times, Sunday Times
Pundits, bookmakers, soothsayers and prophets of doom were duly confounded.
She refused his advances and confounded a multitude of scholars assembled by him to overcome her scruples.
The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists.
China's foreign trade figures confounded expectations last month as exports from the country grew for the first time in nine months. Times, Sunday Times
It was tremendous and I don't mind saying my expectations had been confounded.
Grammaerians who judge more of points and constructions than of sence and spirit and animation; with a dozen other queer fellows and characters, who would plague me confoundedly if I was once to begin to mind them. Letter 70
The dancer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The dancer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
Daly was the only one, however, that was planet-struck, as the doctor termed it, though he and the purser, who sat in another seat, confessed after they had been introduced to our heroine, that they had been most confoundedly out in their reckoning; and that they would never prejudge any more the beauty of a man’s wife from any knowledge they might have either of the form or visage of her husband. Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
Yes, it's a confounded nuisance, Linton," said Major Sandars, "but you must diplomatise, and set all right somehow or another. Middy and Ensign
From the beginning they'd been an uneasy partnership, the fundamental principles of which had confounded both. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Confoundedly coxy those young rascals will get, if we don't mind," was the general feeling. Tom Brown's Schooldays
He was surprised indeed, it was either that guy was extremely dumb, or confoundedly smart.
Parental education will be confounded with social class and it is therefore important to consider them jointly.
You are a confounded nuisance. Stop pestering me.
But really I do object to be swinging there at the end of a string like a confounded leg of mutton under a bottle-jack. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle
It confounded, I say, the multeity below intellect, that is, unintelligible from defect of the subject, with the absolute identity above all intellect, that is, transcending comprehension by the plenitude of its excellence. Literary Remains, Volume 2
In spite of her years of experience, this instance confounded her.
You just happened to discover the methods of operation of a criminal ring that has confounded the authorities for the past three months.
Car owners, marketers, and automotive writers have been confounded as to the proper way to pluralize Toyota Prius since the first-generation sedan helped introduce hybrid cars to the mainstream, beginning with the 2001 model year in the United States. Buzzword: Toyota Prius + Prius = Prii
That kind of evidence, in scientific terms, is "unconfounded" -- there's a clear and consistent cause and effect. Ellen Galinsky: Give the Gift of Curiosity for the Holidays -- Lessons From Laura Schulz
In the midst of the recently resurgent debate in Britain about whether our drug laws are working – or require a major overhaul – the experience of Portugal has become a crucial piece of evidence in favour of a radical approach that has confounded the expectations of even its conservative critics, so much so that in the last month British officials have asked their Portuguese counterparts for advice, with the only caveat being that they avoid mentioning the word "decriminalise". What Britain could learn from Portugal's drugs policy
This vibration in the voice should not be confounded with a tremolo, which is, of course, very undesirable. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
Play both, and the laughs of confounded expectation will follow. Times, Sunday Times
These were the marimondes (Ateles belzebuth), and those bearded monkeys called capuchins, which must not be confounded with the weeper, or sai (Simia capucina of Buffon). Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
But the disease confounded everyone, vanishing in petulant defiance of all the elaborate preparations which had been made to accommodate it.
The dancer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
Amidst cholla and saguaro and sun-blistered projections of rock so bleak they might have confounded the Buddha himself. The Silence
He finds it a confounded nuisance, and this is a matter that, of course, he will be stuck with.
The best were the langoustes (Palinurus vulgaris), the clawless lobsters called crawfish (crayfish) in the United States, and the agosta or avagosta of the Adriatic: it was confounded by the The Land of Midian
The difficulty of determining whether a child was stillborn or murdered has confounded English lawmakers and jurists for centuries.
Get rid of your confoundedly repetitive harmonies and phony teenaged angst.
In hospital visiting don't charge in, make lots of noise and generally be a confounded nuisance. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
Having made trial of the strong arm of the mob as an instrument for putting down the Abolitionists, and been quite confounded by its unexpected energy and unmanageableness, Boston was well disposed to lay the weapon aside as much too dangerous for use. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist
He tied the confounded Windsor knot, struggled with his cuff links, and noted that his tiepin, which was a silver spaceship, was upside down. The Spy
For the past two decades, Western governments have been confounded, hoodwinked, bambozzled, bluffed, duped, manipulated, seduced, beguiled, flim-flammed and sandbagged by a master of deception into believing that there is "no alternative in the opposition". Alemayehu G. Mariam: J'Accuse!
[2] As it is in a great degree a political subject it is more in your way than mine; — All your writings are so confoundedly violent, that I who have four years past made a determination to be nutral in Politicks and Religion, have much ado to convince myself that you ought to expect much assistance from such a cowardly fellow. Letter 129
Their ancestors shall be ashamed of their cowardice, in fleeing from the first onset (v. 12), or, Your mother, Babylon itself, the mother-city, shall be confounded, when she sees herself deserted by those that should have been her guards. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Soup was included in our meals, and though billed as a lowly vegetable and beef concoction, it confounded our expectations by being one of the most memorable dishes of the night.
Habituated to associate to the symbols the ideas of their archetypes, the mind at last confounded them: then the same animals, whom fancy had transported to the skies, returned again to the earth; but being thus returned, clothed in the livery of the stars, they claimed the stellary attributes, and imposed on their own authors. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
‘I wish she were not such a confoundedly good little woman so that I could be faithful to you without injuring a worthy person.’
Under the whole was that which tongue refuseth to explain, whereat was confounded the brain and whose love would embrave the craven's strain. Arabian nights. English
Nor was the government only, but also the glory of the English nation changed; distinction of orders confounded, the gentry outbraved, and the nobility, who voted the bishops out of their dignities in parliament, by the just judgment of God thrust out themselves, and brought under the scorn and imperious lash of a beggar on horseback; Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The bad election results confounded the previous government leaders.
I was confounded by this unexpected rationality.
Neither should right be confounded with wrong.
He promptly fired a letter off, through his lawyer, declaring he that was confounded by the request that he assent to any such payment.
The daunting dimensions of the yard initially confounded even this inveterate plantswoman.
For unless the meaning of the distinctive qualities of each be unconfounded, it is impossible for the doxology to be adequately offered to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
Many, like asses that wear out their time for provender, are so buried in the minor and immediate tasks of earning a living as to get confounded promptly and permanently with the victims of commercial ambition, whence it comes to pass that, slily and insensibly perverted, nerves frayed and brains dulled, they take to books as sick souls take to drugs. Notable & Quotable
Miss Howe is a charming creature too; but confoundedly smart and spiritful. Clarissa Harlowe
China's foreign trade figures confounded expectations last month as exports from the country grew for the first time in nine months. Times, Sunday Times
A club record signing of £1m, he confounded supporters and the club by missing training sessions and going shopping instead.
Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
The term _maneuver-lines_ I apply to momentary strategic lines, often adopted for a single temporary maneuver, and which are by no means to be confounded with the real _lines of operations_. The Art of War
This plant, a bromelia, is of the same genus as the _Agave Americana_, and by travellers often confounded with the latter, though quite a distinct plant from the _maguey_ of cultivation. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
“I could not come a moment sooner; I hardly expected to get here at all, for my horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along.” Cecilia
This sheep was for some time, and is still by some, confounded with the oorial (_Ovis cycloceros_), but there are distinct differences, as will be seen further on, when I sum up the evidence. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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