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

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

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 The Path of a Star by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

A ship that carries a numerous crew, is a sort of omnium gatherum, of human employments.

From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by Cooper, James Fenimore

A very omnium gatherum that school was, and the ways of it were as rough as in any school.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various