I have heard her discuss ways and means with Frieda, till I felt my small allowance of brains positively Addling.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
But Mrs. Hope, who believed in the old proverb about not Addling eggs by meddling with them prematurely, refused to say another word.
"Clover"
Susan Coolidge
The heads of this pack of country folk had been overheated with sack and spiced ale; an unreasoning, maniacal terror, with superstition for its basis, had completed the work of completely Addling their loutish brains.
"The Tangled Skein"
Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy