...His face was sufficiently made up to baffle recognition; but there remained his voice...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Massoudi relates that the divers of the Persian Gulf were soconscious of this advantage of colour, that they were accustomed toblacken their limbs, in order to baffle the sea monsters...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Theonly effectual precaution for the protection of furniture isincessant vigilance—the constant watching of every article,and its daily removal from place to place, in order to baffle theirassaults...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Such wounds are highly dangerous andapt to baffle the most experienced...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...When a supposed guinea hen does not lay in the breeding season, theowner often thinks that she lays but manages to completely baffle hissearch for the nest...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...Audubon depicts him as endowed with certain useful ruses, inparticular when he has to baffle the attacks of his nocturnal enemy,the Virginian Owl...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...They live in the tops of trees, in largecompanies and possess marvellous powers of locomotion,swinging themselves from tree to tree with such rapidity asto baffle all pursuit...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Several countries—Greenland and Mexico, for instance—contain in thesoil much meteoric iron, often in masses so large as to baffle allattempts at removal...
Cecil G. Dolmage 「Astronomy of To-day」
...At this point he caught sight of thedistant range that was destined to baffle for many years the westernprogress of the early settlers...
Ernest Favenc 「The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work」
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