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
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.
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
The fame of the former brought Sterne to London, where he became, says Walpole, "topsy-turvey with success."
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
A motley world! too noisy--too wild--too harum-scarum-- everything topsy-turvey!
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
