We have all seen another thing, which baffles our philosophy, while it proves the truth of the theory of which I am speaking.

She sat and sang to herself like a happy child, for her heart had fathomed the awful gloom which baffles angels and men; and she had learned that though hope comes to an end and light fails, and the feet of the ambassadors are stayed on the mountains, and the voice of the pleaders is silenced, and darkness swallows up the world, yet Love never fails.

The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether.

There is a personality peculiar to the professional soldier, even though he be but a half-fledged recruit, that defies analysis and baffles description.

But this road that we are walking in always baffles me.

For I would fain know what substance exists, that has not something in it which manifestly baffles our understandings.

Some of the young ladies coming in from the rural districts, carry a head riggingI do not know what else to call it, for it is neither bonnet, hat, nor cap, nor any combination of these; but it is an apparatus for the head that baffles description, and which, for want of a better name, we must call a tremendous thing, both in magnitude and in design!

If the consulate had been burned down, a war would have been inevitable, with a chain of consequences that baffles the imagination.

An accumulation of misery which baffles all description.

But a play which satisfies neither our higher nor our lower instincts, baffles our sympathies, and leaves our desires at fault between equally inacceptable alternativessuch a play, whatever beauties of detail it may possess, is a weariness of the spirit, and an artistic blunder.

What is the artistic profit of letting the imagination play around a problem which merely baffles and repels it? Sardou, indeed, presented the same problem, not as the theme of a whole play, but only of a single act; and he solved it by making Floria Tosca kill Scarpia.

The influence is self-renewing, and if for a long time it baffles expression by reason of its fineness, so much the better in the end.

They are far harder to know; there is a queer element of muddle about them that baffles one.

Just when and how it was built baffles human curiosity.

Their incompleteness baffles criticism; yet we feel instinctively that they were meant for the open air and for effect at a considerable distance.

Trust me, girl, That fear of man sucks out love's soaring ether, Baffles faith's heavenward eyes, and drops us down, To float, like plumeless birds, on any stream.

But the study bothers them, the secret baffles them.

It eludes all the vigilance, and baffles all the power of the adversary.

"There is a curious likeness between these two addressesnot to mention the envelopeswhich interests but baffles me.

Say yeoppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose, Who press the downy couch while slaves advance With timid eye to read the distant glance; Who with sad pray'rs the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless, ever new disease;

It beckons and it baffles; Philosophies don't know, And through a riddle, at the last, Sagacity must go.

It beckons and it baffles; Philosophies don't know, And through a riddle, at the last, Sagacity must go.

In two or three years, they will form a pyramid of Roses which baffles all description.

Far to the leeward, faintly drawn against A dim perspective of perpetual storms, A frowning line of black basaltic cliffs Baffles the savage onset of the surf.

The agony of her grief at being thus obliged to leave her mother's house baffles all description.