Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becomingconfounded in nature?
But all these prognostications were confounded by the firmness and ability of the Whig leaders, and by the steadiness of the Whig majority.
But all his plans were confounded by the laudable promptitude and vigour with which the Commons acted.
Such was the origin of that debt which has since become the greatest prodigy that ever perplexed the sagacity and confounded the pride of statesmen and philosophers.
Just at this conjuncture, while every Indiaman that arrived in the Thames was bringing unwelcome news from the East, all the politics of Sir Josiah were utterly confounded by the Revolution.
The fate of the Triennial Bill confounded all the calculations of the best informed politicians of that time, and may therefore well seem extraordinary to us.
The emotion was in both cases delightful, and no wonder if he confounded the one with the other, and believed them both to be produced by the same, or similar causes.
The apparent facts confounded his years of experience.
If a problem confounded him, he found that merely forgetting about it during an interlude with Marasee provided him with the answer.
But that tower of Babel business was a confounded nuisance, and I was glad when the rain left off and we went out to the ceremony.
On the other side of the bridge, refugees, streaming along the road from Stalatz to Krushievatz, converged with the stream of columns and refugees who crossed the bridge, and made confusion even more confounded than before.
Mr. Croker in his note has confounded him with another John Taylor who matriculated more than a year later.
When the District Attorney rose to begin his closing argument, he acted like a man confounded by an unexpected proposition, and groped about amid legal generalities till he felt his way.
You've had lots of money from us, yet your confounded patriotism towards your effete old country has, I believe, caused you to try and defeat us.
You were a confounded fool to speak of such matters outside your own room at home, Lewin.
But it's that confounded woman, I suppose--the woman of whom poor Jerrold entertained such grave suspicions.
Muster Judd--if it warn't for my confounded rheumatics.
Keith admitted his undeniable good looks and knew of his wealth; but he was so confounded by the information he had received that he was in quite a state of confusion.
Then I must have confounded her with you," sighed Mr. Rimmon, with such a look at Mrs. Lancaster out of his languishing eyes that she gave him a laughing tap with her fan.
My arrival in so unfrequented a place, coupled with my air of secrecy and the English labels on that confounded portmanteau of Gregory's, had completed the business.
May we have passed all these confounded examinations before another one comes!
It was careless of Gregory to leave those confounded labels on the valise.
I knew what that meant in their confounded jargon, and sprang to my feet.
Moreover, it isn't my brains that get wrong, but only my confounded stomach.
I was nervous over the passage about the clergy, but those confounded parsons seem to me to let you say anything, while they bully me for a word or a phrase.
I sat erect, but for a long while was unable to collect my mind, so bewildered were my brains by the fall, and so confounded besides by the uproar round about.
The news spread like wildfire, and confounded the city.
He had heard and read so much of the freedom, the liberty of England, the safety of the subject, the equal justice meted out to all, that he was literally confounded when the bare facts stared him in the face.
With so many supposed comforts around him--with so many visions of wealth and splendour--one thing alone disturbed the peace of the poor optimist, and would indeed have confounded most bons vivants.
The poor man, confounded and perplexed by various feelings, asked his pastor what he should do.
This perception of the Manas may be called "faith" which should not be confounded with blind belief.
This Karana-sarira is often mistaken by the uninitiated for Linga-sarira, and since it is described as the inner rudimentary or latent embryo of the body, confounded with it.
This progress has confounded the gloomy prophets--at home and abroad who predicted the downfall of American capitalism.
One by one the case endings were discarded, and cases were confounded with one another till at length in Apabhramsa only one or two forms remained for each number.
The troops in the cantonments were then under the command of General Elphinstone (not to be confounded with the civilian Mountstuart Elphinstone), with Sir William Macnaghten as chief political adviser.
There is likewise a mythical as well as an historical Taliesin (the Welsh poet), but they are generally confounded by the populace.
In this case it is not only possible but highly probable, that older traditions having reference to the "Wars of the Roses," may have been confounded with more recent events.
This piece of information rather confounded Miser Farebrother, who, himself an interloper, was feeling his way; but he was politic enough not to betray himself.
But after that the thing loses its gloss and gets to be a confounded bore.
And the confounded police, and the bother of keeping out of the way, and maybe lose the spring meeting.
I think itconfounded blackguardly, and you ought to be kicked out," ruffling like a cock-turkey with trailed wings.
He found Warrener and Wylde Payne there, and presently he began to tell "what a confounded mess he had made of it down stairs.
More confoundedand disturbed than ever, my friend retired to bed, but he was too much excited to sleep.
It's only that confounded radiator; it's always making some sort of an infernal tumult.
The Greek, confounded at seeing so many of the true believers enter his house, had a sort of feeling that their business was not of roast meat, but that they were in search of meat of a less savoury nature.
The whole thing is a confounded mystery," George observed.
Some confounded eavesdropper must have been telling you of our clandestine meetings, and this has annoyed you.
You're a confounded fool to remain down in that wretched, dismal hole, Brooker.
Your confounded demands will never allow me to forget.
But though bills are a substitute for cash payment, and though they constitute the commercial currency of the country, they must not be confounded with money.
A proposal, sometimes confounded with bimetallism, is that for a standard composed of both gold and silver, which is better described as the Joint-standard or as Symmetallism.
The secretions of the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity, and a pair of naso-lacrymal glands (not to be confounded with the Harderian and the lacrymal glands), moisten and clean the chamber.
In fact, in Bihari r and l are frequently confounded together, or with n, another dental letter.
