They break and retreat, carrying dismay and confusion to the main body.
In the haste and confusion of sending them off, what occurred as to many families?
Amid this apparent universal confusion a certain consistency of view is to be observed.
Seeking to escape from the confusion of many gods the Indian mind is looking out even from the Vedic period for some means to conceive of them all as one.
The joy of having embraced this thought, of having escaped from all confusion with regard to the powers that rule the world, and of seeing all things in this splendid light, finds manifold expression.
But this apparent confusion is corrected by a remarkable tendency to organisation.
It would seem as if Providence, in these days of widespread scepticism, were unearthing the long-hid monuments of the past to put to confusion those who would fain treat the history of early ages as a myth.
The bands had ceased playing, and noise and confusion resounded from the scene of action.
Fleurange, with a start of surprise and a confusion which deepened her blush.
But the frightful confusion of the times brought his Benedictine days to a premature close.
If we tear down the altars and destroy the seats from which lessons of Christian morality are taught, confusion must inevitably follow.
Once more they slouched forward with the advice that their backers had poured into their ears still gyrating in a wild confusion in their minds.
The words hurried, tumbling in a confusionof self-consciousness from her lips.
Like the falling of the Tower of Babel, with its crumbling of dust and its confusion of tongues, she tumbled headlong from her pinnacle of strength.
She tried to answer him, but the words mingled in a stammering of confusion before she could utter them.
In that one moment of his confusion I had to make the best of my opportunity.
In my imagination I heard the confusion when the body of the guard was found.
To all this there was an air of confusion everywhere.
There is a pleasant confusion of good nights and good wishes, the great hall doors are shut, and they all troop up the wide walnut staircase quite as if an evening party had broken up.
All is so quiet and tranquil, and for a month there has been little save confusion and flying to and fro at home.
There is very great confusion afterwards, but by dusk matters get pretty well settled in their olden channel.
She is so delicate, so melancholy, she shrinks so away from all the happy confusion that most women love.
There are other steps, and an intenseconfusion like pandemonium prevails.
Mrs. Grandon draws a breath of relief, and there is a pleasant confusion of welcome.
His violin had been broken in the melee, and the miller, though ardently urged, never could remember the spot where he had hidden the book--such havoc had the confusion of that momentous night wrought in his mental processes.
The flare from the great chimney place genially played over the huddled confusion of the room and the brown logs of the wall, where the gigantic shadows of the three men mimicked their every gesture with grotesque exaggeration.
Only one of the three men in the room made any effort to reduce the confusion to order.
As he grew more able to move and act, the sense of confusion which suddenly arrested him was terrible--almost maddening.
He lay perfectly quiet again though, for he found that any exertion brought on mental confusion as well as pain, and he wanted to think about his position.
It required but little imagination on the part of the county government to foresee the probability of fighting in the county and the subversion of the civil authority, with the confusion and lawlessness that would consequently ensue.
In this period of confusion there came to Shelburne parish in 1869, as its Rector, the Rev.
Also there was confusion and lack of that complete authority necessary in such a crisis.
The whole problem therefore arises from confusion of thought.
Suppression of all sub-contracting and sweating (an ignorant confusion between a harmless industrial method and its occasional abuse).
There was no confusion among the hardy veterans of the plains.
There was confusion among the Mexicans, as it was really their leader whom Ned had wounded, and, before the pursuit was resumed with energy, the fugitive had gained another hundred yards.
The smoke lifted and Ned saw many fallen, both men and horses, on the plain in front of them, and there was confusion in the Mexican force, which was now out of gunshot.
One of the mules was slain and two others, wounded, dashed wildly through the Mexican infantry, adding to the confusion and turmoil.
One drove the main column of the Mexicans in confusion back upon the town, and the other, containing Ned and his friends, charged into the gully and put to flight or captured all who were hidden there.
Terrified at the noise of the breaking glass of the windows and chandeliers, the ladies sprang up from their seats, and a scene of indescribable confusion and alarm ensued.
The next instant he was enveloped, wings and all, in a warm confusionof kisses, congratulations and folds of hood.
A severe shock, such as he had just sustained, was bound to throw these impressions into confusion and disorder, jumbling them up into new and strange combinations, obliterating some, and exaggerating others.
No, it is not the wrangle between Parliament and colonies that has brought the devil's own confusion into Tryon County; it is the terrible possibility that one or the other side may let loose the savages.
In Great Britain it is admitted quite openly that the confiscation of the German merchant fleet has very largely contributed to the ensuing collapse of the world's shipping markets, and to the confusion which now prevails on every trade route.
Added to all this, there was the inevitable confusion which the replacement of the civil administration by the army commands brought in its train.
The Council of Five Hundred, in great confusion and bewilderment, assembled at eleven o'clock.
In the midst of the horrible confusion he in vain endeavored to speak.
As he cast a glance over the wild confusion and devastation of the field, the exclaimed hurriedly, "I see that the battle is lost.
Even if matters were not so bad as this, still "the yet-loved sire would make Confusion worse than death, and shake The pillars of domestic peace.
It seemed to him that his appearance was the signal for a confusion that was equivalent to an earthquake.
The orbits of the planetesimals and the planetary and satellite nuclei would be very eccentric, forming a confusion of ellipses with frequently crossing paths.
The confusion was even greater than in the cafe, due to the greater amount of light and music and the variation of color.
From above came the hum of voices followed by confusion and silence.
He began to feel that nothing had been accomplished when there came a crash of glass, the palm rocked, and the lady in some confusion sprang to her feet, shaking her dress.
He found everything in confusion and Thompson hard at work packing books.
