He was heavy and slow on his feet, missed the time, and muddled his steps.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Newquay is not at all like St. Ives; it has no quaint muddled fishing town behind the "visitors' front," and it lies all along the top of high cliffs so that its main street is almost level, or at any rate, level for Cornwall.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Sometimes it seemed to Dick that all his work went for nothing at all, for Mrs. Fowley always muddled things as soon as she came in.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis