Seeking, with baffled eyes, In the dumb, inscrutable skies, A name for the greater glory That only the dreamer sees?
The nobler lesson is that mortals can Grow godlike through this baffledfront of man!
It stood to the south-east; in which direction, however, a black bog intervened, which had more than once baffled all my attempts to cross it.
So this enraged young Englishman spent the third night of his honeymoon in a hunt round the haunts of Paris, but with no success; and at about six o'clock in the morning came back baffled but still raging, and thoroughly wearied out.
And soon that irritated and baffled sense left him, and he became calm.
The coroner was baffled by the man's positiveness.
Ordonio Saw both the pirate and his prize go down, In the same storm that baffled his own valour, And thus twice snatched a brother from his hopes: Gallant Ordonio!
With baffledpurpose To the Avenger I leave vengeance, and depart!
Certain it was that Miltiades either dislocated or broke his leg during an unsuccessful siege of the city, and returned home in evil plight with his baffled and defeated forces.
All hope of further conquest in Europe for the time was abandoned, and the baffled armada returned to the Asiatic coasts.
After making a determined effort to storm the stockade, in which some of the boldest warriors were slain while trying in vain to batter down the gates with heavy timbers, the baffled Indians were obliged to retire discomfited.
The inertness and shortsightedness of the frontiersmen, above all the exhaustion of the States, and their timid selfishness and inability to enforce their commands, baffled all of Clark's efforts.
When the time for the performance drew near, the scene almost baffled description.
They also failed, but repeated the attempt twice in the tenth century, and yet once more towards the middle of the eleventh, only to return northward, baffled and broken.
Bajazet sought to extend his power to Egypt, but was baffled by the Mamelukes, a body of militant nobility superior in training and "morale" to anything the Othmans could muster.
Here the Bulgarians had attempted an assault some days before, and had been baffled by those that held the trenches searing the hill-side to the eastward, and by the guns of a Turkish warship lying off the coast.
The strange way that she had of suddenly becoming quite another woman baffled him; had he only not loved her he was sure that it would have been easier, much easier.
He was baffled by his own ignorance as to the real truth; neither Breton nor Rachel had taken him into their confidence.
The foreign blood in her, the English blood in him, baffled their advances toward one another.
Doctor Bimble's revelation was somewhat staggering, and the disappearance of the housekeeper's body was a poser thatbaffled the Phantom's astuteness.
Though he worked his wits at furious speed, the situation baffled his ingenuity.
The Gray Phantom, through it all, maintained an elusiveness that completely baffled the police and clothed his identity in a glamorous haze.
From the other side of the wall came loud curses, mingling with dazed exclamations, baffled shouts and expressions of incredulity.
Baffled in his desire to meet an enemy having teeth to bite, Rodgers would have still kept his course, but for a fire in the rear.
The Brandywine cast anchor, and the baffled envoy waited patiently for a few days, when another American flag and floating fortress sailed into the harbor.
The inscription on the blade has baffled the savans.
But freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is always won.
But in this he was baffled by a succession of heavy tempests, accompanied with such tremendous peals of thunder and floods of rain as are found only in the terrible storms of the tropics.
It was the fate of Blasco Nunez to have his purposes baffled alike by his friends and his enemies.
Thus were things situated when the baffled Seraskier withdrew from the Imperial Presence, to drag his beloved ducats from their snug resting-place in his strong box, and to scatter them among the money-changing Franks.
It was true that hitherto he had baffled all the attempts of the Imperial troops, by the wisdom of his measures, the judiciousness of his arrangements, the bravery of his own bearing, and the zeal of his soldiery.
The gospel would have brought to France the solution of those political and social problems that baffled the skill of her clergy, her king, and her legislators, and finally plunged the nation into anarchy and ruin.
Baffled at the idea I turned thoughtfully back, when I beheld something on the roof before me that caused me to pause and ask myself if this was going to turn out to be a tragedy after all.
Sir Edmund, baffled and indignant, hid his anger as well as he could, and with his gentlemen and soldiers left the Assembly Room.
Then they went back to Boston, baffled of their quarry.
Or else a physician, baffledby some disease that did not yield to his treatment of bleeding and to his doses of garlic and horses' dung, would suggest that witchcraft was the reason for his failure.
And in Polly's eyes, which were staring at the new guest, was an expression that completely baffled her.
The beard he wore baffledher somewhat in an attempt to read his face; but that also, she decided, represented a normal average.
Again and again I went round this treadmill of thought; and again and again gave up baffled and in despair.
He threw his hands in the air and looked baffled and confused.
