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

They would appear to a stranger like the dish which is sometimes called omnium gatherum.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

Besides the list in Bohn’s Lowndes, which is somewhat of an omnium gatherum, three lists drawn with more or less care were compiled in the 19th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

There was that sort of strange omnium gatherum party which is to be met with nowhere else, and which for that reason alone is curious.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Greville, Charles

But I do not intend to make these letters a mere omnium gatherum of recollections.

From Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.