Great happiness can obscure, befog like great sorrow.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
Experience usually demonstrates, however, that an estimate in only the necessary detail escapes the danger inherent in undue detail which would tend to befog the main issues.
"Sound Military Decision"
U.s. Naval War College
Once I remember the Shi Delts, in spite of everything we could do, managed so to befog the brain of the Freshman class president that he cut a date with us and sequestered himself in the Shi Delt house in an upper back room, with the horrible intention of pledging himself the next morning.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch