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topsy-turvy
1. Such a topsy-turvy state of society was shocking
2. As his power probed and plucked at the senses of each, he was struck by their topsy-turvy derangement and confusion, the terror and consternation that seethed within each psyche
3. The world here is topsy-turvy
4. having my diapers changed—that topsy-turvy sensation of being lifted by the legs
5. I admit that this interpretation of time turns our whole concept of life topsy-turvy
6. The world is topsy-turvy
7. Because he’s still blindfolded it’s a bit topsy-turvy, but clear enough
8. She went rapidly, mostly sliding, but sometimes walking on her hands and feet with her back to the dirt and her head raised off the ground like a topsy-turvy Manorian soft-shelled crab running across the white sandy beaches of Critton escaping the powerful snapping beaks of the seabirds
9. are a little topsy-turvy around here
10. Consequently, everything would become topsy-turvy
11. But on this topsy-turvy day he went contrary to his own habit
12. I was floating on the surface of river topsy-turvy
13. How is it, is the world topsy-turvy? He could hear people running in crowds from all the storeys and all the staircases; he heard voices, exclamations, knocking, doors banging
14. I wonder if I should blossom out half as well as you have, if I tried it?" said Jo, as she constructed a kite for Demi in the topsy-turvy nursery
15. Aunt Dodo was chief playmate and confidante of both children, and the trio turned the little house topsy-turvy
16. "I know the breeding season's over, but everything's so topsy-turvy with us here that there's no saying
17. turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along
18. He had never heard her call him anything except “Cap’n Butler,” and her and calling him “Mist’ Rhett!” What a topsy-turvy day!
19. ” According to this topsy-turvy reasoning, if there were no unpaid preferred dividends ahead of the common it would be less attractive (even at the same price), because there would then be in prospect no wonderful plan for clearing up the accumulations
20. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts
21. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle after the joys of the preceding evening
22. This was when I chanced to see the third-storey staircase door (which of late had always been kept locked) open slowly, and give passage to the form of Grace Poole, in prim cap, white apron, and handkerchief; when I watched her glide along the gallery, her quiet tread muffled in a list slipper; when I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,—just say a word, perhaps, to the charwoman about the proper way to polish a grate, or clean a marble mantelpiece, or take stains from papered walls, and then
23. Happy at Moor House I was, and hard I worked; and so did Hannah: she was charmed to see how jovial I could be amidst the bustle of a house turned topsy-turvy—how I could brush, and dust, and clean, and cook
24. Still, the alacrity with which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion
25. Her bed was topsy-turvy, the press open and ransacked
26. But this study will come later, at leisure, when all the tragic topsy-turvydom of to-day is farther behind us, so that it's possible to examine it with more insight and more impartiality than I can do
27. The expectation was verified; there was a mighty turning of everything upside down and topsy-turvy, a general rummage, with the discovery of exactly nothing, as they might have known
28. "What's that, a compliment? But the tea is cold—and that shows that everything is topsy-turvy
29. It is all topsy-turvy; the whole of science is considered as a small part and a small part is considered as the whole
30. We had your rooms turned topsy-turvy at our very first suspicions, but umsonst! Then I said to myself: 'That man will make me a call, he will come of his own accord, and that before very long! If he is guilty, he will be bound to come
31. The entire motive of “Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire” lurks in Barrie’s effort to be funny around this cruelly topsy-turvy, and rather nauseating, idea
