"Muddled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there in search of pleasure." "But," objected Giton, "they are the very ones we are most anxious to avoid," whereupon he explained to the astonished Eumolpus the reasons for their enmity and for the danger which threatened us. So muddled did he become, at what had been told him, that he lost the power of thinking, and requested each of us to offer his own opinion. "Just imagine," said he, "that we are trapped in the Cyclops' cave: some way out must be found, ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter
... if I were a nation—just because I am being a hundred million people instead of one, to let myself be frowned down as a human being, by figures, muddled by the Multiplication Table—by a really simple thing like there being so ...
— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee
... time to lose. The least muddled of the party had cleared the room in a moment, and then addressed themselves to the more difficult task of trying to quiet Eric and Wildney, and conduct them steadily ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... in its train—minutes flew by apace, the wine grew low in the decanters, and it became apparent to me that if I would not lose the whole evening, and go home with my brains muddled beyond all possibility of reading, I must take my departure. Accordingly, pulling out my watch, I reminded Mr. Frampton of my previous stipulation to be allowed to run away as soon as dinner was concluded, adding that I had already stayed longer than ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... it all hisself: leastways, I found the things properly muddled. 'Twas to be seen a man ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
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