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Updated: May 3, 2025
Dogberry and Verges, as types of the muddle-headed old watch pompous, confused, and self-important are always diverting; but they would have been men not all ridiculous had Scott taken them in hand real creatures of flesh and blood, not watchmen in the abstract.
Or rather let them expound their muddle-headed theories as much as they like, provided they have no authority, no power!
"Who?" she still at her rose, a memory straying in her that here was a friend, whom the Terrible One had bid her obey. "Mr. the Regent", he whispered. "I don't know him. What is your name? My name is " "Oh, you muddle-headed cat! Don't you know the dark man with the black moles quick!" "Sh-h-h he is sleeping". "Gawd! is he though? Come, show me! I've got a old appointment "
Then, we had the doctor who had made the examination, and the usual tests as to whether the child was born alive; but he was a timid, muddle-headed doctor, and got confused and contradictory, and wouldn't say this, and couldn't answer for that, and the immaculate broker was too much for him, and our side slid back again.
Things are arranged in a certain way, and it's no use going against them! You mustn't even discuss them. But what did you do? You got some maggot into your head. A convent, indeed! Silly fool! What did the girl want? Did she want your convent? What a set of muddle-headed fools there seems to be now! Just think what's happened! You, you're neither fish nor fowl, nor good red-herring.
How, in the name of wonder! could your uncle Toby, who, it seems, was a military man, and whom you have represented as no fool, be at the same time such a confused, pudding-headed, muddle-headed, fellow, as Go look. So, Sir Critick, I could have replied; but I scorn it.
In short, he was the embodiment of a system which in times of peace had served as a text for innumerable well-meaning but muddle-headed politicians of a certain type, who made a specialty of keeping the nation upon the alert against the insidious encroachments of Heaven help us! Militarism!
"Rufus, who has made what the world calls a success, would be proud of me; and Penelope, who has learned to think with the rest of the world, would be proud of me proud to present me to her friends to splendid fellows like Talcott and his muddle-headed companion." He leaned forward and tapped me on the knee with his long forefinger, and his face broke into a bitter smile as he spoke more quietly.
Middleheath, with a deeper knowledge of the ways of provincial juries, declared that the defence would have stood a better chance of success before a London jury, because Londoners had more imagination than other Englishmen. "You never can tell how a d d muddle-headed country jury will decide a highly technical case like this," said the K.C. peevishly.
"You see, if I may venture to say so, Chris " "I knaw all 'bout that. 'Tis like your gudeness to try an' put a li'l money in his pocket wi'out stepping on his corns. They 'm tokened. Young people 's so muddle-headed. Bees indeed! Nice things to keep a wife an' bring up a fam'ly on! An' he do nothin' but write rhymes, an' tear 'em up again, an' cuss his luck, wi'out tryin' to mend it.
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