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

So she looked for the note—tossed everything in the room topsy-turvey.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan

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

I had to turn him up and down, to the right and left, topsy-turvey, before I could get his head clear.

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry

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