They were such eyes as could be dogged and stern as flint or deep and bafflingly gentle like mossy waters.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
It would just then have been as easy for him to construe the fourth dimension as to put his lover's thoughts into a lover's words, but her woman's eyes read what he could not say and became bafflingly deep as she turned them away across the gold and blue and green of the morning.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
To attempt an analysis of Huxley's character, unique and bafflingly complex as it is, is beyond the scope of this sketch; but to give only the mere facts of his life is to do an injustice to the vivid personality of the man as it is revealed in his letters.
"Autobiography and Selected Essays"
Thomas Henry Huxley