Confounded

Examples

• They must not be confounded together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Utterly confounded, Mr. George awhile stands looking at the knocker. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She says that if I can afford to give a party I ought to be able to pay her confounded “little bill. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Somewhat confounded, Miss Wren parried the pleasantry, and sat down in a corner behind the door, with her basket in her lap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Sam, stop your confounded pipe, or I shall be after you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mr. Gradgrind seemed to be quite confounded by this speculation. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• That's his impudence--that's his confounded impudence,' said Captain Boldwig. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I forgot the confounded jelly, but it can't be helped now, said John, surveying the prospect with an anxious eye. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I call it a confounded job to take the thing away from Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The worst of the story is, said he, that I show myself up as such a confounded fool. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then turn towards home again,' said Mr. Losberne to the driver; 'and don't stop to bait the horses, till you get out of this confounded London! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Now do these complex and singular rules indicate that species have been endowed with sterility simply to prevent their becoming confounded in nature? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This baffled me, I must confess, fully as much as my statements had confounded her; and I told her so. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• These two distinct cases of reversion are often confounded together by those who have written on inheritance. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We ought to examine apart those two questions, which are commonly confounded together, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• So should I,' said the stranger--'confounded luggage,--heavy smacks-- nothing to go in--odd, ain't it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I've got to stay for this confounded supper, but I shall be home early tomorrow. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She was mortified, shocked, confounded. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mr. Bumble sat himself down; quite confounded by the oddity of Mr. Grimwig's manner. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Wages, therefore, are in this case confounded with profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rush of the daylight quite confounded me, and made me feel as if I had been in the candlelight of the strange room many hours. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• This is a very important subject, most imperfectly understood, and no doubt wholly different classes of facts may be here easily confounded together. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Sometimes I'm no better than a confounded tax-paper before the names are filled in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I was amazed--confounded. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I suppose,' said he, with a gleam of hope, 'there's no doubt about the genuineness and date of this confounded will? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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