On the strength of a garbled report a tumult arose over the whole country and many indignation meetings were held.
But the garbled story, with its misuse of the word "outrage," reached a district in Cape Colony where it did no little mischief in fanning the flames of animosity and rebellion.
Is it possible that this "story" of the unicorn was borrowed and garbled from the ancient Hindú legend of the Deluge?
A garbled version of this legend is found in the Latin Gesta Romanorum (it does not occur in the Anglican versions edited by Sir F.
As the days passed, Brace's mind was incessantly tortured by imaginings of garbled accounts, of insidious attempts to poison the ear of Isa, and at length his anxiety became almost unbearable.
For this quotation from Mary's letter, Robertson refers to Keith; but upon making the reference, it will be found that he has somewhat unaccountably garbled the original.
The garbled Tenor of a sore Despite Can never bring your lost Umbrella back.
LVIII The Tea, that in the magic of its Flow Anoints the Tongue to wag of So-and-So, To gabble garbled Garrulousness ere You lay the Cup and Saucer down and Go.
Readers often have to insert a line or take one out to meet this necessity, and sometimes an author's text is garbled as a result.
By careful examination it will be seen that one sentence, at least, is from Barclay's Apology, "but it proves to be a garbled quotation.
The matters complained of are mostly subject to variable interpretation, and scarcely afford a basis for a religious quarrel, especially considering that the alleged statements were at the best garbled from quite lengthy discourses.
She also gave a garbled account of the disappearance.
Should then my meagre sketches seem but little spiteful, accord me credit for tolerance at the expense of wit, (yea, in mine own garbled satire, hear it Juvenal!
Public repudiation of the letter was impossible, since he had really written it, although the translation had garbled the meaning of some important sentences.
I have an idea of the sort of garbledreports these spies of his who spend a year on Niflheim as laborers bring back.
Bishop Krementz answered, on March 30, exposing the absurdity of Falk's doctrine, the justice of his own action in regard to Wollmann and Michelis, and dissipating the many sophisms and garbled citations contained in the letter of March 11.
The ambassador abandoned Rome in an excess of fury and brought a garbled version of the affair to the ears of Louis XIV.
To establish this theory he used garbled arguments of predestination.
He gave only a condensed and garbled rendering of it.
In point of fact, this expression of opinion, which occurs even in the garbled reports of the lectures, leaves all those questions on which it is possible for serious and dispassionate men to be divided entirely open.
But I dared not keep silence, lest you should learn of this journey West, and so on, through some garbled story in the newspapers.
Some garbled accounts of the auction at St Benet's had reached them, and they were anxious to get a full report from Miss Oliphant.
She began a garbled account Hammond looked at her face and guessed the truth.
Why, even in the midst of her gay chatter to Constance, did she hear every word of Priscilla's queer, garbled speech?
In the text the citation is garbled and imperfect.
Such garbled and mutilated, unsexed and unsoured versions and perversions like Lane's were felt to be survivals of the unfittest.
It has always been garbled in the journals, and even in history.
The First Quarto is a garbled copy taken down in the theater.
A very badly garbled and crude form of this play was printed in 1603, and is known as the First Quarto.
Stories may be collected among the peasantry which are evidently garbled versions of Scriptural episodes.
As a result of his ensuing call upon the pressman, the sheet of the following morning contained word of the Honourable George's coming, the facts being not garbled more than was usual with this chap.
Set well back from the driveway in a faded stretch of common, it was of rather a garbled architecture, with the Tudor, late Gothic, and French Renaissance so intermixed that one was puzzled to separate the periods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garbled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
