Significados de baffled every attempt en inglés

His rifles still effectually commanded the passage and baffled every attempt of Watson to cross.

The young lady (her name was Adele) baffled every attempt at a clear understanding on that point.

There was one period when for sixty successive days an attempt was made to arrest him; but the captain baffled every attempt.

Never seen in repose, never allowing a steady perusal of its features, it baffled every attempt to judge the character by physiognomical induction.