But the want of better telescopes baffled his efforts; and even to-day it is said "that no telescope has yet been made which is capable of observing at sea the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, by which on shore this method of finding longitude has many advantages.

But in the year 1422, in the midst of his successes, he died of a disease which baffled the skill of all his physicians, leaving his kingdom to a child only nine years old, and the prosecution of the French war to his brother the Duke of Bedford, who was scarcely inferior to himself in military genius.

By evening the last fort or bastile was taken, and the English retired, baffled and full of vengeance.

The enemy, whose well-planned enterprise his self-devotion had baffled, paid a cordial tribute of praise to his heroism, Ferdinand himself publicly expressing his regret at the fate of one whose valor had shed honor on every brother-soldier; but not the slightest notice had been taken of him by those in authority in France till his exploit was accidentally mentioned in the queen's apartments.

Finding that the island of Mona, now Anglesey, was the chief seat of the Druids, he resolved to attack it, and to subject a place which was the centre of their superstition, and which afforded protection to all their baffled forces.

Now you are to be shown a trick which has baffled the most profound minds of this or any other cityaye, I may say, of the world!"

For the moment I am baffled.

The whisper flies round the clubs, 'Psmith is baffled.'

A shower of rain may convert a victorious army into a baffled one, and an advance into a retreat.

We admire the resources and dexterity of an outlawed bandit, but we should remember he is a bandit still; and we confound all the laws which hold society together, when we cover up the iniquity of a great crime by the successes which have apparently baffled justice.

Its greater evils are indeed overruled; Satan is ever rebuked and baffled by a benevolent Providence.

His great master, Fielding, would have been baffled by such a complex personality as Becky Sharp.

In Asolando, Browning thus presents his attitude toward life: "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

But in the Second Part Faust gradually wakes from the intoxication of passion, outgrows the dominion of appetite, plans great and useful works, whereby Mephistopheles loses more and more his hold of him; and after his death is baffled in his attempt to appropriate Faust's immortal part, to which the heavenly Powers assert their right....

And on Nov. 1st he writes, "On Wednesday I again went to the ship and tried small alterations in the correctors: I am confident now that the thing is very near, but we were most abominably baffled by the sluggishness of the compass.

What was it that, for such a long time, baffled the strength of the strongest among you?

Uneven things not leveled down Are somehow simply got aroun'; The sting is taken from offence; The evil has its recompense; The broken heart is knit again; The baffled longing knows not pain; Wrong fades and trouble disappears Before the rectifying years.

Some loose ashlars weighed half a ton and had baffled the attempts of modern builders.

Professor Barnard, with the Lick thirty-six inch telescope, discerned an astonishing wealth of detail on the surface of Mars, so intricate, minute, and abundant, that it baffled all attempts to delineate it; and these peculiarities were seen upon the supposed seas as well as on the land-surfaces.

But what to do, and where, and how, baffled all their ingenuity.

Escaping through the doorway, Luca della Robbia's great bronze gates were slammed to, by Angelo Poliziano, almost crushing Antonio Cavalcanti, who fell with a deep wound in his shoulder, and actually flinging to the ground, outside in the aisle, the raging, baffled Bandino.

Noting, from her more and more deserted corner, each least sign of the social revival, Undine felt herself as stranded and baffled as after the ineffectual summers of her girlhood.

Well, my lords, baffled in their expectations that the first of August would prove a day of disturbancebaffled also in the expectation that no voluntary labor would be donewe were then told by the "practical men," to look forward to a later period.

and, when a lengthened pause Of silence came and baffled his best skill, 'The Prelude', 1850.]

Roseen could at first scarcely believe her own eyes and ears; this then was the solution of the mystery which had so long baffled them.