topsy-turvey
Example Sentences
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So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
And my father is going to marry again," said Hester; "it seems to me as if the world were turning topsy-turvey.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.
Their ideas are so topsy-turvey that they regard with contempt those who are engaged in useful work!
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert
His existence was overwhelmed by this event; it was turned topsy-turvey, and it never regained its equilibrium.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund
It is only consistent with the topsy-turvey state of things at present existing, that a king and those who are defrauding him of his revenues should spend the night together.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
