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Strong emotion fuddles the fingers - "I will be fightining for the establishment of the English Parliament with might and main - and rather better typing!"

What we need to learn from the Fall of Glasgow East O'Neill 2008

A cocktail "is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head," Croswell wrote.

Cocktails for Candidates 2008

The general drink is beer, which is prepared from barley, and is excellently well tasted, but strong, and what soon fuddles.

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

"Good men have done worse things when ambition fuddles their wits,"

Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

For myself, I care nothing for the gift of interpretation, and far less for that dreadful type of effete facility which produces a kind of hocus-pocus technical brilliancy which fuddles the eye with a trickery, and produces upon the untrained and uncritical mind a kind of unintelligent hypnotism.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Five minutes of concentration on their present problems fuddles my brain beyond the point of intelligent logic.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

If an author fuddles himself, I don't know why he should be let off a headache the next morning -- if he orders a coat from the tailor's, why he shouldn't pay for it .... '

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906

"I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink."

The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

Sands his sugar and brown-papers his teas philanthropically, for the good of the public, and denounces men who put in Old Squareface and whisky-pegs, as he fuddles himself with his loquat brandy after shop-hours in the sitting-room back of the store.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

That second nap in the mornin 'always fuddles the head, and makes it as mothery as ryled cyder grounds.

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830