The central doctrine of the prevalent religious faith of Christendom was utterly confused and neutralized in my mind for years by one of those too common stories of actual life, which I overheard repeated in a whisper.

Even without these, much might be effected, if the zoological collections, which are open to the public, were arranged according to what has been termed the "typical principle"; that is to say, if the specimens exposed to public view were so selected that the public could learn something from them, instead of being, as at present, merely confused by their multiplicity.

And he had sustained a shock which momentarily confused him.

" I am still sadly confused, and cannot make up my mind what all this is about.

How hopelessly confused it all seemed!

Speak of me to the Queen and you will discover that she invariably confuses Baireuth with Ansbach.

The document was put together by a Filipino writer in so ludicrously confused a manner that I give it as a specimen of Philippine clerkship.

" But by this time the Negro President was obviously confused and out of his depth.

For one moment her sleepy brain confused him with the diabolical noise overhead.

I had positively confused the days!"

The Prussian system is unsatisfactory, firstly, because it confuses external discipline with self-control; secondly, because it confuses regimentation with corporate spirit; thirdly, because it conceives the nation's duty in terms of "culture" rather than of character.

He perhaps had a dash of the artistic in him, and the power to mold ideas often confuses itself subjectively with the power to mold human beings.

But these are accepted with the credulity of youth, and become incorporated with the mind; so that now, in the place of purely negative ignorance, a whole framework of wrong ideas, which are positively wrong, crops up, subsequently confusing the schooling of experience and representing the lesson it teaches in a false light.

The poor damsel was terribly confused by their ardent glances and libertine scrutiny, and blushed to her very temples.

"It will confuse the poor man dreadfully," said Euphemia.

But this is what is done when a writer breaks up his principal sentence into little pieces, for the purpose of pushing into the gaps thus made two or three other thoughts by way of parenthesis; thereby unnecessarily and wantonly confusing the reader.

Phr. harmoniously confused

He spoke as though inadvertently he had confused the names.

"How then at least," said the lover, "must I interpret your disorder?" Delia was inexpressibly confused at the inconsiderate language of her companion.

He had really been shocked at the matter-of-fact way in which every one at the office had spoken of his book, and the sight of all the other books with which it would soon be inextricably confused had emphasised the painful impression.