It was an awful blow to my pride-considering that heretofore I've certainly had my fair share of attention, and even a little more than that-to have to do all the love-making, and I'm certainly not going to go brag about it-' This time the conversation really did get interrupted, for Austin would not for one instant submit to such a "Garbling of statistics" and took the quickest means in his power to put an end to it."
"The Old Gray Homestead"
Frances Parkinson Keyes
They were published, but, as has been discovered of late years, with much omission and Garbling, and the restoration of them to their authentic form has been effected in comparatively recent times.
"A Short History of French Literature"
George Saintsbury
Except for the Garbling of tobacco it does not appear to have concerned itself with plantation affairs.
"British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675"
Charles M. Andrews