topsy-turvey

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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

Then for run-away, topsy-turvey wit I think I would back "The Story of the Tin Heart" and "The Camel who never got Started," against most stories I know.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 by Various

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 Alcott, Louisa May

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.

Malo did far more than make R�champ fall in love with her: she turned his world topsy-turvey, and prevented his ever again squeezing himself into his little old pigeon-hole of prejudices.

From Coming Home 1916 by Wharton, Edith