The American people like that sort of trash, though they have already twice seen the French try republican institutions only to make a muddle of them.

The case, indeed, is simply a subdivision of the vast subject: haphazard muddle in the conduct of life.

We have muddled about in blood and dirt and secondary issues long enough.

but he could not conceive that tenderness and desire could ever again be one for him: such a notion as that seemed part of the monstrous sentimental muddle on which his life had gone aground.

To Sir Robert Walpole belongs the credit of extricating the finances of the country from the muddle into which they had fallen.

Silly and dishonest men, appealing to still sillier audiences, have got themselves and their audiences into humorous muddles over this business, but the principles are perfectly plain and simple.

It is a common saying that we muddle through our wars, but we could not afford to muddle in face of the threat which the enemy's unrestricted submarine campaign represented.

Palmerston's action nearly threw Europe into war; Russia protested, and France, who had offered to mediate, was aggravated by a diplomatic muddle to the verge of breaking off negotiations.

The brute was considerably intoxicated when he came to the house, and the longer he sat still the more his brain became muddled with liquor, and he actually forgot what he had come there for.

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?

The mould of either could well trick the other, providing their heads were as muddled as mine, and in this matter I am also clear.

I don't intend to muddle along making a pittance like a hand logger.

The authoress says, with respect to the great wash"Amongst all the occasions in which it is most difficult and glorious to keep muddle out of a family, 'the great wash' stands pre-eminent; and as very little money is now saved by having everything done at home, many ladies, with the option of taking another servant or putting out the chief part of the washing, have thankfully adopted the latter course."

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.

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

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

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

Perhaps there is no such people, and the conflicts and muddles before us will be world-wide.

Because the muddle between the sides of the main road through Bocking and Braintree is not an isolated instance; it is a fair sample of the way things are done in Great Britain; it is an intimation of the way in which the great task of industrial resettlement that the nation must face may be attempted.

* "Dad," began Susie Rushford, that evening, gently but firmly taking away the paper over which her father was engaged, "I wish you would devote that massive brain of yours to this Schloshold-Markheim muddle for a few moments, and give me the benefit.

Everything was muddled from morn till night, from year's end to year's end.

And so it looked to the audience when the long row of men were tied up like dummies in sacks that reached to their necks; for, after the first muddle at the start, two small brick-top figures went bouncing along in the lead, like hot-water bags with red stoppers in them.