How To Use Befuddle In A Sentence
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He was befuddled as he swilled the tea around in his mug
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The kid smiled and vanished, leaving a befuddled scientist to wonder if he'd begun hallucinating.
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This question befuddled even the teacher
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Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all.
Where are all the lesbians?
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At first they glanced at each other, befuddled by the albino girl who stood in nothing but a strapless nightgown.
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He returned it with a high looping sidespin shot, the kind that could utterly befuddle a neophyte but would be a lost point against an experienced player.
Robot Adept
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Emerging after a bibulous evening, befuddled guests went to recover their coats, only to discover that some of them had ‘walked’.
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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When Miss Fiske wrote to inform me of her condition, I was utterly befuddled.
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I forgot to tell you all this is set in one of my confused and befuddled future settings.
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He said the survey "raised the bar" for other surveys and challenged the polling industry not to "befuddle" politicians, voters and opinion-makers.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Sarah felt something stir within her as she gazed at him, her eyes never leaving his and she was befuddled.
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Years later, Branson learned the band thought they were being drugged to befuddle them.
The Saturday interview: Richard Branson
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I was so stunned and momentarily befuddled it never even occurred to me to fire the second barrel.
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India's policy makers are getting increasingly worried about the poor quality of economic data that forces multiple revisions to important numbers and befuddles economists and investors.
India's Data Worries Need Urgent Solution
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The problem lies in ethical anomie, philosophical befuddlement and the hypocrisy that today permeates every aspect of our so-called civilized world.
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As one keeps replacing the other, we easily get befuddled ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main concern I have against the institution of a usage tax is that simple logic sometimes befuddles Congressmen and therefore, I don't believe they would be able to come up with any sort of tax that would charge fairly for those who benefit from services.
High income and Wealth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The old right-wing nostrums which befuddled public opinion in the 1980s and 1990s no longer have the same impact.
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Unable to comprehend, Amanda stared at Keira in utter astonishment and befuddlement.
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But a multitudinous number of Alaska Democrats, including me, whose votes may decide the outcome remain flummoxed, befuddled, uncertain.
Donald Craig Mitchell: Daddy's Girl Versus Sarah's Boy: What's an Alaska Democrat to Do?
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Hot, bothered and befuddled, folk started acting very oddly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is, accordingly, by turns bumptious, diffident, selfish, generous, thoughtless, befuddled and acute.
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Clearly it exists, but it is befuddled, complex, and we all have a different idea about what it is.
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And what better to enliven the befuddled mind than chess?
Times, Sunday Times
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Such befuddlement has been a feature of his presidency, which began in 2006. Disgruntled administrators lament that "only a handful of people" ever know what is going on.
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I called back at the cabbie, who was leaning out his side window, a little befuddled, but even he was smiling some, in his slightly jaded D. C.-cabbie way.
Mary, Mary
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
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Her acting aptly conveys noble spirit and befuddled brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it comes to piecing together a performance, they can, at their worst, resemble a befuddled man confronted by self-assembly furniture.
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One rarely considers the fact that the Ivory Tower is its own sort of reality, with customs and folkways that would befuddle the most conscientious anthropologist.
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In our early days, my entering classmates were often befuddled by the kind of readings we were given.
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Even then it was hard work, but they kept him befuddled for several days, and finally inveigled him into buying No. 29 for $750.
The Gold Hunters of the North
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected.
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If you and your buddy aren't on the same wavelength, the flood of ambiguous nonverbal cues can lead to misunderstanding and befuddlement.
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New York, of course, befuddled me until I couldn't keep track of my wallet; which contained the greastest collection of gum wrappers, taco bell receipts, ticket stubs, lint bolles, and the et ceteras I had.
Joegood Diary Entry
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Personally, because I know seniors who are computer masters and middle-age people whose PCs befuddle them, I'd say such a machine might appeal to anyone of any age who needs or craves greater simplicity in a PC.
A Simple PC For Seniors Is Complicated By Its Flaws
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Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
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All of these things cause my brain befuddlement, bemusement and general confusion.
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It wasn't as easy as predicted, but the Mexican lightweight backed up his words using quickness and ring savvy to punish and befuddle hometown hero, Gary Balletto.
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We're not truly looking for games that question, befuddle, teach, insult, mortify, provoke .... that is almost NEVER the underlying reason for an argument.
I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best
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Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney.
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Such was his befuddlement at that stage that the supporter could not trace his shoes, so rather than miss the bus to the city, he ran downstairs and jumped aboard the charabanc.
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the wino's poor befuddled mind
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Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze.
Noises Off - review
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Count me among those befuddled by the apparent widespread confusion between "pseudonymity" and "anonymity".
Pseuds vs anons
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In his 1920 novel, The Trial, Franz Kafka provided a dizzying look at the senseless complexity of a bureaucracy that seems to exist primarily to befuddle and punish its constituents.
Lisa Madigan: Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure
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Of course, one would have to be incredibly naive to think that Palin, at best a befuddled Republican poster child and at worst another establishment neocon, would follow through on her support and back a new 9/11 investigation should John McCain snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and take the White House.
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A befuddled moment passed before he understood she was referring to his rickety motorcycle and not to their assignment as volunteers.
Heaven Lake
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a hollow under some buffalo-bushes and slept the loggish sleep of the befuddled.
Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted
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Tony Hopkins tries out an array of voices and manners - befuddled vagueness, booming ferocity. dangerous, smiling brusqueness.
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So even shows that I'd made a point to catch have gone by the wayside, and thus I find myself not remembering to catch them even on the rare quiet nights because I've fallen out of the habit, so I wind up utterly befuddled at Peter David's Buffy and Angel recaps... and I'm left feeling kind of resentful that I'm missing it all.
Pen-Elayne on the Web
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This clarified things for the more befuddled viewers but reminded all that they were watching a dead person.
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The sport of boxing won big time as it again confused and befuddled it's critics.
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Having laid out that caveat, allow me to simply state that the success of Twilight befuddles me more than any one book/movie franchise.
Archive 2010-04-01
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I opened the door and there was no teacher in sight, only several befuddled students.
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He was to do this because his brain not befuddled by panic.
The Sun
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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It befuddled me greatly because I couldn't remember doing anything wrong that night, at least not to him.
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For the most part, we are benumbed, befuddled or afraid.
Judith Acosta: The Great American Trance
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Those new ideas often include higher expectations about municipal services that can befuddle local officials.
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Riders overtake traffic, carving in and out of lanes as befuddled drivers bond in confusion with pedestrians.
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Then his normal befuddlement is exponentially enhanced by two very unexpected -- and potentially very dangerous -- visitors from the pound.
The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs by Richard Yancey: Book summary
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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The onlooker finds him or herself standing - intrigued or befuddled, or probably both - amid multivarious narratives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aficionados of business dinners will know that this wasn't actually spent on the meal (the befuddled restaurateur comped the food) but on the wine, most of which was older than they are.
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You can't help but be struck by the sheer befuddled babyishness of the apologists.
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Avoid this film unless you want to know the befuddled feeling that comes of toking on a bong for a few seconds too long.
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I'm still befuddled by the speed with which these were produced, in a kitchen featuring two gas burners and one ancient electric mixer.
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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And most times - after a moment or two of befuddlement and confusion - I saw that the computer gizmo was right.
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The first five minutes of the debate saw historians, learned meeja types and BBC presenters using the silly word "befuddlement" so often I'm sure someone behind the scenes had dared them.
The Daily Record - Home
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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Reaching over to put the light on, befuddled and stupid, I saw the dog, trembling and sheepish, dark eyes anxious in the lamplight.
Diary of a separation
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Or, at least, that's the plan, because what they've actually done is generate an amount of befuddlement and head-scratching.
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A scorching weekend was full of spins as the slick surface of "The Track Too Tough To Tame" left drivers slapping the wall in befuddlement.
Denny Hamlin earns Darlington sweep with Southern 500 win
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Moroxes in their befuddlement are the near-opposite of a structure known as the Tom Swifty, where the adverb modifies a verb or noun to form a pun.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2
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The new arrival was befuddled by the rapid - fire conversation.
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Too often carers accused of theft claim that their victim was befuddled.
Times, Sunday Times
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A very befuddled teenager soon found himself pushed and locked out of the room.
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The French ruling on the banning of the niqab (the full face veil) together with the banning of minarets in Switzerland were some of the most stunning legislations to emerge from Western Europe in recent years, a sadly predictable response to the rise of a more and more publicly expressed ritualization of Islam which befuddles many in the Muslim diaspora too.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: 'The Women's Voices Now' Film Festival: Women's Voices From the Muslim World
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It clearly left the others, and the jury, amusedly befuddled by her inarticulate sentence fragments, full of sound and fuzzy, but definitely signifying nothing, though it certainly removed any remaining mystery as to why they never bother to give her any airtime.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: The Blithering Inferno.
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The political factions, often casting patricians against plebeians and Guelphs against Grimaldis, befuddles all but the most analytic minds.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Met's Ravishing Simon Boccanegra
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I'm so tired, my poor befuddled brain can't absorb any more.
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There was no drunkenness, as drunkenness is ordinarily understood -- no staggering and rolling around, no befuddlement of the senses.
Chapter 32
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Only in the first Brahms did the composer's characteristic nightmare of cross-rhythms befuddle the chorus.
Concert review: National Master Chorale at National Presbyterian Church
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There's another factor at work here, a kind of commercial disingenuity that aims to befuddle the listener on his own ground.
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Even then, the details of how I had gone and gotten myself a boyfriend befuddled me.
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Although the author affects befuddlement, his book demonstrates an unfaltering sense of self.
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Who knows what little games he played in his mind before it became befuddled by morphine?
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Let them find their own way out of their befuddlement: There is no need to spoon-feed them.
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He looked around the room blankly, an expression of befuddlement on his face.
Among the Ghosts
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He must have been perpetually befuddled and dismayed by his downfall.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a witty, engaging presence in the early comic scenes, portraying the doctor with soft-spoken befuddlement.
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Verlan originated in the 19th century as a secret language used by youths and criminals to befuddle authority figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told me, her eyes widening with the mystery that befuddled me earlier.
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The befuddled silliness might be genuine gold or it might be play-acting.
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I do have to admit to being a little befuddled by what's going on in terms of the descriptions.
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Unsteady on their feet, uncoordinated, befuddled and bewildered.
The Sun
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Most of us go through life overthinking hamburgers or pretty girls or bad people; the Marx Brothers eat them, kiss them and befuddle them.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Alongside the reliable, quietly impressive Umar Gul , during the recent series Junaid Khan emerged as a canny, reliable bowler with some Asif-like qualities, while Aizaz Cheema looks lively, and the extraordinary windmilling flail of arms resembling a cartoon fight that constitutes the bowling action of Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir continues to have the occasional capacity to befuddle the best.
Pakistan Shows Resilience Amid Turmoil
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But he worries that they can be misused, misinterpreted and even befuddle someone who is truly inebriated.
Testing the Limits of Tipsy
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You're skipping this paragraph, but my pleasure in recalling this production must overrule your bored befuddlement.
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I am as befuddled as you are when I try to read that deliberately abstruse text.
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Postirony seeks not to demystify but to befuddle, not to synthesize opposites but to suspend them, keeping open all possibilities at once.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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She dies of a heart attack, he's too befuddled to inform the authorities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Henry has now taken his place as one of the top striking threats in Europe, while Kanu's languid, idiosyncratic flights of fancy regularly befuddle Premiership defenders.
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Brooke glanced around at the girls, whose befuddled faces told her how stupid this must have looked.
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Even today her media hagiographers like to affect the notion that she spoke an intrinsic Aussie truth which has escaped those lofty elitists who befuddle their brains by actually reading a book or two.
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The dynasty is ruled by King Leodan who to all outward appearances is a strong and just king, but behind closed doors is a befuddled “mist” addict.
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