What is "baffling"

Usage examples of "baffling".

But for all his skill in the wilds, Alec had always found towns rather baffling.

Whatever the fellow might know about the Aureole Mine might solve a problem which, from all appearances, was baffling Morton Selwood.

The physiological problem of the explosion of the stinging capsules of the cnidae has always been a baffling one, but that is for scientists to worry about.

Mr Cupples was a baffled poet trying to be a humourist--baffled--not by the booksellers or the public--for such baffling one need not have a profound sympathy--but baffled by his own weakness, his incapacity for assimilating sorrow, his inability to find or invent a theory of the universe which should show it still beautiful despite of passing pain, of checked aspiration, of the ruthless storms that lay waste the Edens of men, and dissolve the high triumph of their rainbows.

From the colorful, exciting, traditional festivities of the Mardi Gras arises a baffling mystery for The Shadow to solve.

They turned and followed her down the other side of the ridge, leaving the baffling, maddening thing that was the Integrator to rage at their escape.

With black rods and vanes and levers jutting in baffling array from the round black hull, it looked like a black spider flying.

Whenever this occurred the discovery of a fresh outrage was sure to follow, but, so far, the miscreants had succeeded in baffling not only the police, but also the many farm hands who had formed themselves into a band of volunteer watchmen, determined to bring the cattle maimers to justice.

There is a rapid thudding as sleepers are dropped and then a sound like something being sliced as girders unroll from a flatcar, crews Remade and whole picking them up with tongs, a baffling dainty motion, letting them down as sledge-wielding brawnies step in and timed as perfectly as an orchestra hammer the ties and rails.

Wink sat hunched forward, trying to figure out how Doc Savage had managed to follow Tercio north, and swearing over the baffling problem.

New Guinea, an African figurine, a baffling shaped painting in the form of a tesseract, and three magnificent little crystallines.

I remember once, in the confusion and hurry of baffling winds and whistling shot, having always turbans before the eye, and the bastinado in mind, to have beseeched St.

I perceived serendipitythe dazzling reward, in fact, of his own long lifetime of effort to invent something better than himselfall he could see was baffling mischance and a monster of miscreated danger.

Last noon the Austrian ambassador, Whom I consulted ere I posted down, Assured me that his latest papers word How General Mack and eighty thousand men Have made good speed across Bavaria To wait the French and give them check at Ulm, That fortress-frontier-town, entrenched and walled, A place long chosen as a vantage-point Whereon to encounter them as they outwind From the blind shades and baffling green defiles Of the Black Forest, worn with wayfaring.

Karen Hodges had initially suffered the same baffling parasympathetic symptoms before the onset of her seizure.