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Sentences starting with confusion

Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
Confusion overmastered her for the moment. [11]
Confusion was but food for his smiles, importunity but increased his suavity. [9]
Confusion was dispelled, a quick and grateful animation took possession of her, to be replaced an instant after by the disconcerting reflection that there was in his face or manner not the faintest sign of emotion or embarrassment. [11]

Sentences ending with confusion

Terror, blood, Diodoros wounded, Andreas, the ass on which she had ridden that night, were the images which first crowded on her awakening spirit in bewildering confusion. [10]
The three have wives and the wives have several names, and this increases the confusion. [5]
His face filled with a panic confusion. [11]
Halberds and muskets, which had been stacked, were seized by their owners and, amid the beating of drums and blare of trumpets, order arose out of the confusion. [10]
The tribune's arm was again raised high into the air, and then--what confusion! [10]
In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. [5]
Lempriere drew himself up with a slashing attempt at composure, but ended by flaming from head to foot, his face shining like a cock's comb, the perspiration standing out like beads upon his forehead, his eyes gone blind with confusion. [11]
Certain facts began to stand out clearly from the confusion. [9]
These add crime to confusion. [7]
He felt that the blood had fled from his cheeks, and his thoughts were in utter confusion. [10]

Short sentences using confusion

Dismay, confusion, possessed the Arabs. [11]
There must be frightful confusion. [10]
Why, then, this confusion? [11]

Sentences containing confusion two or more times

Pierre's confusion was not reflected by any confusion on Natasha's part, but only by the pleasure that just perceptibly lit up her whole face. [2]
Her mind was in confusion, but one thing shone clear through the confusion, and it was the iniquity of the Khedive. [11]

More example sentences with the word confusion in them

She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity. [11]
And that is what I want to do now--for until you set that matter right it was nothing but just a confusion in my mind, without head or tail to it. [5]
One can imagine what confusion and obscurity would result from such an account of the duel. [2]
What he felt was more than pity; he was experiencing, indeed, but with a deeper emotion, something of that same confusion of values into which Eleanor Goodrich's visit had thrown him. [9]
The general confusion was distracting; as the sun rose, the anguish, physical and mental, of the whole family greatly increased, and by noon had reached an appalling pitch. [10]
Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
And in the very centre of the confusion was the captain himself. [9]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
And then I used to wonder--what became of you--and whether--" I hesitated, overwhelmed by a sudden confusion, for she was gazing at me fixedly with a look I did not understand. [9]
The Evangelists leave us no possibility of confusion on this point. [5]
Prince Bagration screwed up his eyes, looked round, and, seeing the cause of the confusion, turned away with indifference, as if to say, "Is it worth while noticing trifles? [2]
Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
By confusion the two Helms may be the same man, and Bunn and Brown may be the same man. [7]
Why should the two halves of a brain not show a natural difference, leading to confusion of thought, and very possibly to that instinct of contradiction of which I was speaking? [6]
He could not translate her looks; and she, on her part, had she been compelled to do so, could only have set down a confusion of sensations. [11]
He was trying to see his way through a sudden confusion of ideas. [11]
It all helps to keep up the liveliness and augment the general sense of swiftness and energy and confusion and pow-wow. [5]
I was not to die, and came out of the confusion uninjured. [10]
My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
Up to this time there had been no confusion in his mind. [11]
Gradually the flood tide of emotion began to ebb, and the confusion of loving exclamations and incoherent words gained some order and separated into question and answer. [10]
The Colonel enjoyed this bustle and confusion amazingly; he thrived in the air of-indefinite expectation. [5]
What she did think or feel could not easily have been set down, for her mind was one tremulous confusion of unusual thoughts, her heart was beset by new feelings, her imagination, suddenly finding itself, was trying its wings helplessly. [11]
For a moment there was absolute silence, in which the chairman adjusted his glasses and fumbled with the agenda paper in his confusion, scarcely knowing what to do. [11]
When we arrived, the usual immense turmoil and confusion of a great Indian station were in full blast. [5]
Somebody's got on the stove, to add to the confusion and horror. [9]
When Natasha left the room Pierre's confusion and awkwardness immediately vanished and were replaced by eager excitement. [2]
Quickly battening down the prisoners, I had the sails spread, the windlass going, and the anchor apeak quickly, and we soon were moving down upon the schooner, which was now all confusion, commands ringing out on the quiet air. [11]
I think that the only really troublesome confusion connected with these particular matters has arisen from the name Mary. [5]
The spacious halls, the noble stairways, the ample drawing-rooms, the ballroom, the music-room, the library, the picture-gallery, the dining-room, the conservatory--into these the crowd flowed or lingered without confusion or annoyance and in a continual pleasure of surprise. [4]
The eye, like the mind, hates confusion and overcrowding. [4]
As always happens the men, starting cheerfully, began to halt; murmurs were heard, there was a sense of confusion, and finally a backward movement. [2]
The heights and the lilies are there, but Frontenac, the great, brave Frontenac, is gone: confusion lives where only conquest and honest quarrelling were--" "Frontenac will return--there is no other way! [11]
And even in the horrible confusion of that moment Cynthia had a vagrant thought that his clothes had an enviable cut and became him remarkably. [9]
I've been studying the history of---er--a--let me see--a [then he stopped in confusion, and walked over to Gen. Fred D. Grant, who sat at the head of the platform. [5]
At first, in the excitement and the confusion, amid the debris of so much possible wealth, Mavick kept a sort of position, and did not immediately feel the pinch of vulgar poverty. [4]
The cause of the confusion was that while the Austrian cavalry was moving toward our left flank, the higher command found that our center was too far separated from our right flank and the cavalry were all ordered to turn back to the right. [2]
And so along the causeway they came swarming, that wild confusion of frenzied men and horses--and the artillery had to stop firing, of course; consequently the English and Burgundians closed in in safety, the former in front, the latter behind their prey. [5]
All day long the bustle and confusion continued. [5]
I further say that, as the war progresses, it appears to me, opinion and action, which were in great confusion at first, take shape and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for strong dealing with them gradually decreases. [7]
He well knew that nothing but confusion would come of this battle undertaken against his will, and as far as was in his power held the troops back. [2]
The thought of that moment stung him with confusion and shame. [4]
Two of the tents were down, and the third in a collapsed condition, while confusion reigned supreme. [9]
But when on Sunday after church the footman announced in the drawing room that Count Rostov had called, the princess showed no confusion, only a slight blush suffused her cheeks and her eyes lit up with a new and radiant light. [2]
There was a sudden swaying movement of the shrieking mass between Boonda Broke and Pango Dooni, and in the confusion and displacement Boonda Broke had disappeared. [11]
It was all such a whirl and confusion. [4]
We are in such a state of weary and endless confusion that my head won't go. [5]
Afterwards in the strange confusion, in my blind helplessness I tried to say, "But he loved me," and I tried to forgive you. [11]
The weather was stormy and the embarkation was attended with much confusion and excitement. [5]
Temples and palaces, statues and columns appear everywhere in motley confusion. [10]
Later on the sophisticated mind, left to its own guidance in the night, wanders amid the complexities of life, calling up in confusion scenes long forgotten or repented of, images only registered by a sub-conscious process, dreams to perplex, irritate, and excite. [4]
It would take some time to make the confusion into order, and she was now hot, now cold, in all her frame, when at last she climbed into her wagon. [11]
It was a sleep seething and teeming with a weird and distressful confusion of shreds and fag-ends of dreams--a sleep that was a chaos. [5]
He might have shouted for relief in the hope of attracting the attention of some passer-by, and so found release and brought confusion and perhaps punishment to Gabriel Druse; but that was not possible to him. [11]
But this question shews some confusion on the subject; a noise is the sensation resulting from the co-existence of several aerial "simple vibrations" of various periods, each of which intermits so frequently that its separate existence cannot be perceived. [1]
More than anything she feared lest the confusion she felt might overwhelm her and betray her as soon as she saw him. [2]
Then we have several pages of romantic powwow and confusion dignifying nothing. [5]
Nothing more clearly separates a vulgar from a superior mind, than the confusion in the first between the little that it truly knows, on the one hand, and what it half knows and what it thinks it knows on the other. [3]
Certainly, it would seem to have been a quieter and more profitable existence than he had known amid the confusion of things left behind in, America. [5]
There was a sameness in the jargon which tended to confusion. [8]
The company, who rose in confusion on the schoolmaster's entrance, did as people usually do under such circumstances. [12]
At last the Roman set down the cup, and tried with some confusion to reply to her question as to how he had liked the flavor of the wine. [10]
I think the remark had an intention; also that this intention was booked for the trip; but that either in the hurry of the remark's departure it got left, or in the confusion of changing cars at the translator's frontier it got side-tracked. [5]
But the burgomaster reached the place just at the right time, gave directions for rescuing the drowning people, and then made every, exertion to bring order out of the confusion. [10]
Then her look ran to confusion, and she seemed to read all that he meant to convey. [11]
The powwow and racket were prodigious; it was a tempest of riot and confusion and thick-falling blows. [5]
The world so quickly readjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion. [4]
A confusion was produced in one part of their ranks: Muza called to the chiefs of the army, 'Let us waste no more time in empty challenges--let us charge upon the enemy: he who assaults has always an advantage in the combat. [4]
He had worked pretty steadily that summer in his Elmira study, but on his return to Hartford found a good deal of confusion in the house, so went over to Twichell's, where carpenter work was in progress. [5]
He led a pretty by-play with Mrs. Gregory Thorne, of whom he asked the details of the day, much to the confusion, not admirably hid, of Mr. [11]
I will now point out to the young student the mode in which he may relieve his mind of any confusion, or possibly, if very young, any doubt, which the perusal of Dr. Meigs's Sixth Letter may have raised in his mind. [3]
Distribute these gold pieces among them, and tell me without further delay what my poor friend Gyges has done to deserve death, and what is the reason of all this crowd and confusion. [10]
The book of philosophy was underlined and interlined on every page, and every margin had comment which showed a mind of the most singular simplicity, searching wisdom, and hopeless confusion, all in one. [11]
In an instant people had risen in their seats, men were hurrying down the aisles, while a peculiar human murmur or wail persisted like an undertone beneath the confusion of noises, striking the very note of my own feelings. [9]
He had a pang of confusion, and hastily put it into his pocket. [11]
As she bent over the glow, it shone into her beautiful face and upon her magnificent fair hair, which rippled in luxuriant confusion about her round head or fell in thick waves to her hips. [10]
The three have other names and plenty of them, and this makes confusion in one's mind. [5]
It indicated an orderly march; no confusion, no panic. [5]
There were three or four thousand brokers there, yet there was very little noise and no confusion. [4]
Everybody has an opinion, and lets you have it frank and hot, and out of this multitude of counsel you get merely confusion and despair. [5]
Her mind was one luxurious confusion, through which travelled a ghostly little sprite, who kept tumbling her thoughts about, sneering, smirking, whispering--"You dare not go to confession--dare not go to confession. [11]
Perhaps there was once a time when the stars rushed wildly about in confusion, crossing each other's path, while many a star flew in pieces at the impact. [10]
Such a confusion of tongues, before the circumstances were related, and the proofs disclosed! [12]
Perhaps the events of Thursday, would better be left in the confusion in which they remained in Honora's mind. [9]
The dining room of the Pelican Hotel during a midweek of a busy session was a scene of bustle and confusion not likely to be forgotten. [9]
The proposed acquiescence of the National Executive in any reasonable temporary State arrangement for the freed people is made with the view of possibly modifying the confusion and destitution which must at best attend all classes by a total revolution of labor throughout whole States. [7]
In the eyes of the most forward of those on the Sagalac bridge, there was a sudden wonderment and confusion. [11]
On the night of the 25th the besiegers decamped, and in the disorder and confusion one of their prisoners escaped and got safe into Compiegne, and hobble into my room as pallid and pathetic an object as you would wish to see. [5]
Many an exclamation of surprise and pleasure was heard directly after their entrance into the tap-room, and amid the confusion of voices, the name of Hans Eitelfritz fell more than once upon Ulrich's ear. [10]
For the Coronation of Powhattan, by whose advice you sent him such presents, I know not; but this give me leave to tell you, I feare they will be the confusion of us all ere we heare from you again. [4]
There were crowds of people there, and they were swarming into the long sleeper train and packing it full, and it was a perfect purgatory of dust and confusion and gritting of teeth and soft, sweet, and low profanity. [5]
In the confusion of moving books and other articles to the doctor's house, doors and windows had been forgotten. [6]
In the midst of her confusion she became sharply conscious of two things: the approach of Mrs. Flynn, and her father's heavy breathing. [11]
There lay masses of freestone in wild confusion, dust in heaps that took away my breath, and three months since I was sent over there, because above a hundred workmen engaged in stone-polishing under the burning sun had been beaten to death. [10]
An indescribable bedlam of confusion followed, lords and gentlemen, tradesmen and grooms, hostlers and apprentices, all tumbling after, many crying with laughter. [9]
A few drops of alcohol bring about a confusion of mind not unlike this poetical metempsychosis. [6]
I awoke out of a fretted sleep, with a dull confusion of voices in my ears. [5]
The breaking out of a formidable insurrection based on a conflict of political ideas, being an event without precedent in the United States, was necessarily attended by great confusion and perplexity of the public mind. [7]
After many times obstacles and many confusion he become King and afterwards his brother. [5]

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