"Confound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a noise, isn't music, Arthur. Now Hazel, I wish you would just sing one of your little songs and confound ...
— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner
... persons to be special marks of supernatural power, and, if they followed the words of some ignorant and rash exhorter, they were even more likely to be considered tokens of divine favor,—illustrations of God's choice of the simple and lowly to confound the wisdom of the world. The strong emotional character of the religious meetings of our southern negroes, as well as their frequent sentimental rather than practical or moral expression of religion, has been credited ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.
... may confound terms, we do not need to be reminded that art and nature are distinct; that art, though dependent on nature, is a separate creation; that art is selection and idealization, with a view to impressing the mind with human, or even higher than human, sentiments ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... Hilda laughed. "Don't forget, please, that we are only strolling players, odds and ends of people, mostly from the Antipodes. Don't confound our manners and customs with anything you've heard about the Lyceum. Good-bye. It has been charming. Good-bye, ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... And you o poet Bards from danger void that dities sound, Of soules of dreadlesse men, whom rage of battell would confound, And make their lasting praise to time of later ...
— Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (1 of 8) • Raphael Holinshed
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