I shall only garble it if I try to quote from memory.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
How you garble things, Alix!
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
Furious alike at her want of success and at the affront which had been put upon her, the Marquise drove from the Arsenal to the hotel of M. de Soissons; where, still smarting under the rebuff of the uncompromising Duke, she did not scruple sufficiently to garble his words to give them all the appearance of a premeditated and wilful insult to the Prince personally.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe