The Senate has succeeded in muddling it to that degree of unintelligibility that nobody has the slightest notion what it provides.

The book was full of funny muddling mazes, Each rounded off into a lovely song, And most extraordinary and monstrous phrases Knotted with rhymes like a slave-driver's thong.

Or are we to any extent muddling about with it in such a way as to confuse and disorganize our Allies, weaken our internal will, and strengthen the enemy?

This was, however, the artistic prelude to a large, vague, gloomy dissertation about nothing very definite, a muddling up of the main question with the minor issue of a schedule of constituencies involved in the proposal.

How muddling 'tis on books to pore!

A failure to realize it lies at the root of our bewildered muddling of many crucial problems of the day.

It would be so dreadful to have a sister muddling in poverty, and clamouring for one's cast-off gowns.

More of Geissler's muddling!" Lensmand Heyerdahl came up to the farm, and brought with him his assistant, Brede.

"Muddling work," he used to call the floating method of fly fishing.

The fact is, with that deadly aversion to all the vulpine race common to all keepers, he dearly loved to see a fox killed, no matter how or where; but to see one "chopped," without any of that "muddling round and messing about," as he delighted to call a hunting run, seemed to him the very acme of satisfaction and despatch.

Muddling work, I calls it, messing over books.

I can see by his manner that he disapproves of my "muddling" over books and papers instead of trying to catch trout.

I had never yet been the victim of passion; love between men and women had always rather bored me; it is such a hot, stupid, muddling thing, ail emotion and no thought.

He is without the gift of rest, but then he does not need it, the world in which he lives is not so tired and not so muddling as our world.

The alternative to this gigantic effort to rearrange our world is not a continuation of muddling along, but social war.

Accordingly in we went, where a parcel of Muddling Muckworms were as busy as so many Rats in an old Cheese Loft; some Going, some Coming, some Scribling, some Talking, some Drinking, some Smoaking, others Jangling: and the whole Room stinking of Tobacco, like a Dutch Scoot or a Boatswain's Cabbin.

What's the good of my muddling my brains with figures to-night?

It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him.

There was no strongly marked and radical defect in his system of farming to amount for it; it was the muddling, and the muddling only, that did it.

There was no strongly marked and radical defect in his system of farming to amount for it; it was the muddling, and the muddling only, that did it.

Muddling there was and mistakes, such as that of the method of attack at Gallipoli; but in the midst of all this dispiriting pessimism, no Englishman thought of anything but of putting his back into it more and more.

Others are muddling along with old-time, out-grown schoolrooms, spilling over into thatched sheds, and longing for the day when the spiritual structure they are erecting will be expressed in a suitable material form.

If he likes gardening, he says it is the best sort of exercise; if he does not, he says that it is bilious work muddling about in a corner.

"It is rather muddling," said Father Payne, "but, in a general way, the point is this.

I say, gently stealing my hand into his; "there is nothing that addles the brains like muddling over accounts, is there?" Am I awake?