The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
Next he tries the other bank, then baffles all by doubling, till some one spies his nostril as he comes up to breathe.
Let him be as cunning as he will, and think to cut off corners and cross the land-rail's retreat, the bird baffles him nine times in ten.
Much hunting about quickens the intelligence of the pike to such a degree that he cannot be secured in the ordinary manner; he baffles the net by keeping close to the bank, behind stones, or by retiring to holes under roots.
Had he told me in more direct words, I could not have believed in such a thing being done; I could not have believed in its possibility, as on looking back itbaffles my understanding now.
But the suffering of those conscious of being sound of mind, but very sick in body, yet treated as sound of body and sick in mind--the life of the same among the mad, baffles description.
She is dangerously ill with a low, nervous, fever that baffles all my remedies.
My malady is beyond your reach, and baffles human skill.
Ferdinand; 'her callousness or her candourbaffles me.
And yet Sherlock Holmes himself," he cried, "could not decipher the mystery which to-night baffles the police of London.
The simplest thing, or event, bafflesus at the last.
For slipperiness and general hazards this road baffles description.
These, however, are ordinary circumstances; but when one has been laid up on a bench of a bed for three days with a high temperature, a legacy of several years in the humid tropics, the physical discomfort baffles description.
Because I like where it says: 'This pleasure more sharp than pain, That baffles and lures me so.
What is it that baffles us and remains undefined and undefinable?
The eternity which baffles and confounds all faculty of computation--the eternity which had been, the eternity which was to be.
He finds opposing him a flat denial of his decent purpose as an artist, and a stupid and ill-natured logic that baffles sober answer.
It baffles all foresight and calculation; it sets at naught all industry, all energy, all enterprise.
A constant but unperceived rise in the value of the dollar with which those payments must be made, baffles all plans, thwarts all calculation, and destroys all equities between debtor and creditor.
A scene now took place which bafflesevery attempt at description.
I have gazed at it for hours with that ineffable delight which baffles all power of expression.
Then all the lower mountains took on that ineffable purple that baffles description.
The uproar that ensued in the lower hall baffles description.
It bafflesus to think how David was able to carry such grief.
It is when a woman does not know what she wants that she baffles the philosopher just as the ant in her aimless discursiveness baffles the entomologist.
It baffles and bewilders the eye, and it returns the sun glare for glare.
The fox baffles the hound most upon a hard crust of frozen snow; the scent will not hold to the smooth, bead-like granules.
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