All 9 Uses of
baffle
in
Jane Eyre
- And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood — the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.†
Chpt 9
- "I have never heard Mr. Rochester's voice or step in the house to-day; but surely I shall see him before night: I feared the meeting in the morning; now I desire it, because expectation has been so long baffled that it is grown impatient."†
Chpt 16
- Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†
Chpt 21
- Grace has, on the whole, proved a good keeper; though, owing partly to a fault of her own, of which it appears nothing can cure her, and which is incident to her harassing profession, her vigilance has been more than once lulled and baffled.†
Chpt 27
- I had dared and baffled his fury; I must elude his sorrow: I retired to the door.†
Chpt 27
- In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.†
Chpt 30
- "I don't mean to be baffled by a little stiffness on your part; I'm prepared to go to considerable lengths."†
Chpt 32
- Baffled so far, I changed my ground.†
Chpt 33 *
- This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(baffle as in: baffled her) to completely confuse someone