"Addle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... born addle-pated, and you can't help it. Now, let us go through this house without wasting a minute!" Willy ...
— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton
... want you to stay," said Shelley. "I'm so addle-pated this morning. I need my family to ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... gamble to begin with; Luck dealt out the cards, and the little babies picked up the hands allotted them. Protest was vain. Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life—the crowd of ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London
... their dismay in colors that made his interference seem a ludicrous enormity; in fact, it would have been an awkward business enough for one not hampered by his intricate obligations. He felt bound to the Vervains, the ignorant young girl, and the addle-pated mother; but if he ought to go to them and tell them what he knew, to which of them ought he to speak, and how? In an anguish of perplexity that made the sweat stand in drops upon his forehead, he smiled to think it ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells |
