This coarse and candid statement, intermingled with a variety of liqueurs, sobered Canalis as much as it appeared to befuddle Butscha.
"Modeste Mignon"
Honore de Balzac
You've got a fake title from Marchmont, antedating ours; you've got a crooked judge here, to befuddle the thing with legal technicalities; you've got the money, the power, the greed, and the cold-blooded determination.
"'Firebrand' Trevison"
Charles Alden Seltzer
Now the easiest way to befuddle the scientists of the world was to get them into one place and befuddle them all together, and this, after communicating with his superiors, he had proceeded to do.
"The Man Who Rocked the Earth"
Arthur Train Robert Williams Wood