Which preposition to use with confounding

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Yet, of the mountains, and the terrible grandeur of the place, I recked nothing; for I was confounded with amazement to behold, at a distance of several miles and occupying the center of the arena, a stupendous structure built apparently of green jade.

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But to save me that's all I could stammer out'Oh, because ...'" "Well," said Ajax, encouragingly, "the best of us may be confounded in love and war.

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"For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first.

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The confounding of the Turks was ably assisted by the Navy.

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* Ajax met me on the threshold of our cheerless hotel parlour, and listened confounded to my story.

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The ordinary unguided games of childhood are not to be confounded for an instant with the genuine kindergarten plays, which have a far deeper significance than is apparent to the superficial observer.

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Side by side with the increasing tendency to unity in all national literature is working the force of races confounded under one political banner, to assert their existence as such.

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It rejoiceth in truth, and knows no inconstancy: it is free from jealousy, and feareth no fortune: it breaks the rule of arithmetic by confounding of number, where the conjunction of thoughts makes one mind in two bodies, where neither figure nor cipher can make division of union.

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he cried, "why should I think Him worthy of honour who takes from me all honour in my lands, and suffers me to be thus shamefully confounded before that camp follower?" as he called the king of France.

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We find here three considerations which claim our attention: An enlightened preacher, who discovers a very peculiar discernment in the selection of his subject; a conscience appalled and confounded on the recollection of its crimes and of that awful judgment where they must be weighed, a sinner alarmed, but not converted; a sinner who desires to be saved, but delays his conversion: a case, alas!

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The eyes of the confounded tailorfor it was no other than that garrulous acquaintance of the reader who had fallen into the toils of the Roverthe eyes of the good-man rolled from right to left, embracing, in their wanderings, the medley of elegance and warlike preparation that they every where met never failing to return, from each greedy look, to devour the figure that stood before him.

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The latter seemed more confounded than his companion, by the rapidity of the movement, and the novelty of his situation.

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If c and s be the positions of a comet and a satellite, it will be seen that if, while the comet is proceeding to c', the satellite, through its revolution around it, goes to s', the traces formed at c and s will be extended to d and d', and that we shall have two tails, c' d and s' d', which will be separated at d and d' and seem to be confounded toward c' s'.

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"Hester Lynch Piozzi writes this for fear lest her death happening before his return, these books might be confounded among the others in her study.

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E. The Euxine and Caspian are here confounded as one sea.

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We sat mazed and confounded after his departure.

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"Good-bye, my dear and independent sister!" Marcia turned her back upon him, confounded between sorrow and resentment.

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" "Ah, but it seems so hard that you, who I am sure would appreciate fine scenery, should have been debarred from it, while hundreds of stupid people run over the Alps and Italy every summer, and come home, as far as I can see, rather more stupid than they went; having made confusion worse confounded by filling their poor brains with hard names out of Murray.

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Quicklet us disburthen our troubles into each other's bosomlet us make our single joys shine by reduplicationBut yap, yap, yap!what is this confounded cur?

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It is a hard matter, I confess, to distinguish these three species one from the other, to express their several causes, symptoms, cures, being that they are so often confounded amongst themselves, having such affinity, that they can scarce be discerned by the most accurate physicians; and so often intermixed with other diseases, that the best experienced have been plunged.

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