No other remarks were made; the statement was too muddled to stimulate interest particularly.
But answers were explanations, and explanationsmuddled and obscured.
They felt her as "Aunty," a poor oldmuddled thing, always looking in ridiculous places without the smallest notion she was wrong.
The Governments know this quite well, but they dare not say anything, because their officials are muddled enough as it is.
That he, too, was muddled never once occurred to them.
He spoke, as it were, for all the world--said the one simple thing that everybody everywhere was trying to say in millions of muddled words and sentences.
Chapter XX Two legs of the mental triangle somewhat folded together as it dribbled down the forest path, Finnerty and Swinton riding in the lead and Lord Victor, with the depressing conviction that he had muddled things, behind.
His muddled mind asked for no reason for such behaviour, while his ignorance of the commotion then filling the place, and of the search that was being made for a spy, left him merely admiring a feat which was to him extraordinary.
Muddled by counter orders, therefore, and no doubt scared by the dash of our battalions, the enemy retired all along the line, and was soon in retreat, protected by strong rearguards and followed persistently over miles of country by our men.
The Nautilus slowed down, hovering above the muddledmasses on the seafloor, sometimes grazing them as if wanting to come to rest, sometimes rising unpredictably to the surface of the waves.
Many of these restrictions are founded upon a muddled conception of the public good: their aim would seem to be to protect the innocent bystander.
In no matter is this muddled civilization of ours more hopelessly at sixes and sevens than in this matter of the rights and duties of property.
We carried on in these closed cells what was, I now perceive, a needlessly laborious and needlessly muddledstruggle to comprehend quantity, series and form.
It was a very critical moment for an old bachelor, muddled as poor John most undoubtedly was.
Muddled as he was, he began to fear he had been too hasty.
A dull, muddled rage gathered in the woman's eyes; she made an effort to rise on quite irresponsive legs.
A look of drunken cunning stole into the woman's muddled face.
That poor, dear woman has a bee in her muddled old head, and the bee is Captain Leek and his fine manners.
Like a flash his desperate flirtation with the wife of his own squadron chief came back to his muddled consciousness.
He went up to his studio in Fitzroy Square and muddled about with pens and ink.
Mother would have squelched such talk, and Daddy muddled them with long words, while Jane Anne would have looked puzzled to the point of tears.
And how could this tale of its recovery bring into his listeners' hearts such a sense of peace and joy that they felt suddenly secure in the world and safe mid all the confusion of their muddled lives?
Their muddled life defied disentanglement, their difficulties were inextricable.
Daddy so often got muddledand inattentive in this way.
It was a serious anxiety to him, and he muddled both the manufacture and the distribution of the remedy, from simple ignorance and inexperience.
At last the longed-for morning stole in at the windows to find her eyes heavy, her limbs languid, her brain muddled and dull, her head roaring.
She had forced her to swallow that pill--the pill that had muddled her brain and dulled her hearing--the pill which was causing her to flunk in Latin.
His brain had been rather muddledby sleepiness and brandy, and he had hardly been thinking about anything.
The letter which he had read seemed to have muddled his brain.
The gentlemen of the jury, whose brains had been more or less muddled from the day before, were now, almost without any exception, quite drunk.
She asked herself whether grief had not muddled the widow's brain.
Old Nor's head isn't muddled with so little,' added he, scowling.
With my head still muddled with sleep, I was helped into the cart, and sat down between my new friend and her husband.
I always got muddled laying the table, and the missis had an awful nasty temper, quite as bad as mine, and one day she blew me up cruel, and I ran away.
In his muddled fury the man began once again trying to hold her on the animal.
I warned him I have no memory for the Italian, and my fright muddled my wits.
And yet I can make the flesh creep on your great clumsy body--and yet I can hold your muddled mind, and make you like it.
She staggered on towards them, gripping her rifle with some muddled idea of defence, and in another moment she was brushing against the branches of a stunted fir, which shed thick lumps of snow upon her feet.
He's muddled her with Esme Carteret, who was with her.
Montgomery raised himself slowly and stared in a muddled way at the shattered Beast Man beside him.
Montgomery followed with stumbling footsteps, his hands in his pockets, his face downcast; he was in a state of muddledsullenness with me on account of the brandy.
It was a serious anxiety to him, and he muddled both the manufacture and distribution of the remedy, from simple ignorance and inexperience.
This is a good example of the confusion which a word is capable of producing in muddled or ignorant brains.
He knows only that everything frets him, and he desires to vent his muddled and blustering ill-humour on all around him.
