omnium gatherum

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The result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map.

From Time Magazine Archive

And that 'Helping Hands Society' of his is a curious omnium gatherum affair.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule

And from the lips of another lady, whose face she knew, she heard after she had passed, "Don't you think it's rather an omnium gatherum?"

From Hilda A Story of Calcutta by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

She tossed up her little head in conversation with me, and gave me to understand that this party was only an omnium gatherum, not one of the select parties, from which Heaven defend us.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Pray don't stir, Mr. Dean, pray don't stir," he said as the old man essayed to get up; "I take it as a great kindness, your coming to such an omnium gatherum as this.

From Barchester Towers by Trollope, Anthony