The Egyptian troops, humiliated at their surrender, attacked the villages around their camp in the plains, killing the peaceable inhabitants; the governor-general lost his head and gave contradictory orders, and the confusion became anarchy.

With what Confusion is a Man of Figure obliged to return the Civilities of the Hat to a Person whose Air and Attire hardly entitle him to it?

This confusion is probably the reason why the king acquired the right of alienating his demesnes.

The confusion was the greater, in consequence of the absence of the master, as well as of Mr. Collins, the steward.

Confusion be thy guide!

The confusion about the relationship which might well have arisen by Dio's time, is very possibly the consequence of the idiomatic Latin "frater patruelis" used by Suetonius (for instance) in chapter 29 of his Life of Caesar.

Confusion was as much the object of the party of order as it was that of the party of disorder.

"Your confusion is their victory.

Its impossibility, sir, has been already sufficiently discussed, and shown to mean only a difficulty which the unskilfulness of our ministers has produced; for transactions can only produce difficulties to the inquirer, when they are confused; and confusion can only be the effect of ignorance or neglect.

The confusion resulting from the intermixture of French and English civil laws had become a great deal more confounded since he had left Canada eight years before.

Confusion, horror, and despair are the portion of your wretched, unhappy friend.

The moral confusion in the idea was surely admirably characteristic of the general who had just accomplished a successful coup d'état, the condemnation of which he would fancy that he read in the face of every honest man he met, and which he would therefore be forever indirectly palliating.]

This strange and needless confusion of the numbers, is, in all languages that indulge it, a practical inconvenience.

But a confusion of metaphors is not a bull.

If the premises are wrong, confusion and error are the result.

The confusion overcome by the genius of common sense there was order, all rights respected, the administration was a success from the beginning and continued, and is to be continuedsecurity is established, there is public confidence in the airthe "faith and honor of the army" are inviolable, Manila is ours, and there is peace.

The confusion of the teacher and some incidental fun were its only compensations.