| 1. | once took measures to baffle them. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 2. | If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | "You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | And I saw that something restraining, one of those human secrets that baffle probability, had come into play there. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 5. | proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby,. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | After that I fell among those thieves, the nine figures, who seemed every evening to do something new to disguise themselves and baffle recognition. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | O ye race of men Though born to soar, why suffer ye a wind So slight to baffle y. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 8. | 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. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | O star O ship of France, beat back and baffled lon. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 10. | All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unrecorded. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | He tried to steal in, but was baffled by your wakefulness. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 12. | But I was baffled in every attempt I made for this purpose. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 13. | He was baffled and a note of menace pierced through his voice. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 14. | Throb, baffled and curious brain throw out questions and answer. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 15. | One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long--cross-tide. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 16. | Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feud. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 17. | Repulsed and baffled by a feeble foe. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |