"Confound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leader, after a short and doubtful pause, as he peered out in the darkness at the dimly-seen boat—"why, aint the fellow still moving ahead? He is, confound him: fire!" ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... "Confound the money!" ejaculated the old man; "at least, too much of it," he added, correcting himself. "This baby's hand has unlocked more treasures for me than all the Bank of England could count ...
— Miss Grantley's Girls - And the Stories She Told Them • Thomas Archer
... consciousness; but analysis cannot comprise the whole of the logical process. Before there can be analysis there must be something to be analyzed; before steps can be retraced, they must be taken. We must not confound a condition with a Law—the one is a conception antecedent to all action, a genus to which the particular activity may be referred; the other is coincident with action. The one is the medium of the other. We may illustrate this idea by science itself, ...
— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter
... his newspaper with much crackling and widely opened arms. "Don't sit so near it. In my young days, the children were never allowed to come any nearer the fireplace than the outside of the hearth-rug." Then he began to read again, muttering, "Confound that reporter!" ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... not merry, merry be, With a company of jolly boys; May he be plagued with a scolding wife, To confound him with ...
— Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England • Robert Bell
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