| 单词 | higgledy-piggledy |
| 例句 | We parked among a motley collection of farm wagons and gigs and dogcarts pulled up higgledy-piggledy on the grassy field adjoining the many tents. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The stops stand for places where you can get on or off or sometimes change trains, and these are ordered into straight lines with junctions, whereas in reality they are all higgledy-piggledy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The sparrows lived higgledy-piggledy here in one great untidy tribe. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Look at the furniture higgledy-piggledy in the corridor.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Slowly he directed one hand toward the cup and, just as he was about to spread his fingers, they began to grow in higgledy-piggledy fashion like Jack’s beanstalk all over the tray and the bed. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Several of them lay thrown off the shelves, open on the floor or the wide dusty tables, and others had been thrust back higgledy-piggledy. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The main character lives with his fisherman father in a higgledy-piggledy house that has a strong resemblance to these huts, sitting on a windswept strip of sand. 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Now, looming ahead of us is Likir monastery, the archetypal Ladakhi gompa, a jumbled ziggurat of whitewashed buildings scattered higgledy-piggledy over an outcropping, their carved casement windows peering out over an amphitheater of high mountains. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one Now, looming ahead of us is Likir monastery, the archetypal Ladakhi gompa, a jumbled ziggurat of whitewashed buildings scattered higgledy-piggledy over an outcropping, their carved casement windows peering out over an amphitheater of high mountains. In Ladakh, India, history and myth, past and present, melt into one There were moist eyes as the show opened with archive footage of students at work in the higgledy-piggledy building that has housed Saint Martins from 1939 through the first decade of the 21st century. Style: Feting an Ending, and a New Start 2011-06-06T12:35:07Z When Hapsburg grandeur rubs up against a more relaxed Italian style and a higgledy-piggledy mix of ethnic elements joins the fray, the result — as Svevo would say — is original. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z Windsor Castle “was very unpleasant and the palaces in Whitehall were all higgledy-piggledy,” Professor Mandler said, referring to her London home. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The semi-dense Town Center and village centers provide a framework for future growth, something that suburbs built higgledy-piggledy lack. Here’s a suburban experiment cities can learn from 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Besides, it's not as if this kind of higgledy-piggledy category placement hasn't been all the rage recently. Emmy bids by 'True Detective' and 'Fargo' bend categories 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Everything has been stashed away higgledy-piggledy, a system that I’ve been known to rationalize by murmuring a line from poet Wallace Stevens: “A great disorder is an order.” Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “It’s one’s worst nightmare, full of frightful loud colours, peacock blues, and impossible oranges all higgledy-piggledy while one’s mask floods,” he writes. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z I had laid the wardrobe on its side and piled all my books up, higgledy-piggledy in a narrow alcove. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z There are guns, animal bones, lovely higgledy-piggledy Kiwi vowels and shopkeepers who scowl menacingly and tell customers they'll be with them in "jest a succund". Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z Miranda's higgledy-piggledy castle of fun is built on instinct rather than theory. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law 2010-11-21T00:07:00Z A small town with a comically higgledy-piggledy central piazza, it’s like Assisi these days: in danger of seeming quaint or cute instead of beautiful or picturesque. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z That could be due in part to Ötzi’s diet, says Nina Jablonski, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, who notes that the evolution of light skin in people in Europe was a “higgledy-piggledy process.” 5000-year-old ‘Iceman’ had dark skin and a receding hairline 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The 30-year-old said: "Instead of buying all matching furniture I just bought higgledy-piggledy bits and painted them to match." Cost of Living: Upcycling experts see increased uptake 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Ukrainians upload a higgledy-piggledy stream of information about Russians killed in the war on several channels on the Telegram messaging application, including the names of the deceased. Counting Russia’s War Dead, With Tips, Clips and a Giant Spreadsheet 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Much of the turmoil, critics say, is rooted in Disney’s higgledy-piggledy decision to become the centerpiece of the contemporary culture wars. DeSantis is right: Disney brought its problems on itself 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Moreover, the liver does not just expand higgledy-piggledy in the animals. Leprosy spurs growth in armadillo livers, offering clues to organ regeneration 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z They are now piled, higgledy-piggledy, by my side as I type. Perspective | How do you choose a book? Book lists by other writers are a great place to start 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z They were crammed higgledy-piggledy into a series of ill-lit strong rooms behind steel doors, and covered in dust, grime and rat droppings. Torlonia marbles: 'The priceless statues I saw covered in dust and dirt' 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Miniature ramps and staircases thread between gardens in this higgledy-piggledy place, with its 13th-century church and notices about cake sales and “cricketers wanted”. Prickly business: the hedgehog highway that knits a village together 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z It consists of a single main street and higgledy-piggledy alleys shooting off at strange angles. Capital in Trump Mideast Plan Makes ‘a Joke’ of Palestinian Aspirations 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z This higgledy-piggledy narrative is ultimately bewildering and often seems laboured. The return of cancer’s magic bullet 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Her career, which she calls “higgledy-piggledy,” stretches from mining geology to venture capital to banking to becoming the first female chief executive of CSIRO, an Australian scientific research agency. The Woman Putting Australia Into Space 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z "Some of them are more than 100 years old and quite higgledy-piggledy … they might not have a centralised escalator. If you built them from scratch you wouldn't build them that way." Why we no longer love department stores 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z So the Colour Space pictures are less uniform and more higgledy-piggledy. Spot the difference - Hirst's new vision 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The original garden was stuffed with trees and shrubs growing too close to the house, a chaos Nan describes as “higgledy-piggledy.” Meandering gardens and a flock of sheep are part of the charm at this Whidbey Island farm 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Stage blood and slime are squirted and splattered higgledy-piggledy. 'Stan Against Evil' is light, if violent, entertainment 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Because that higgledy-piggledy structure reflects infra-red light particularly well, they believe it might serve to reflect the sun's warming rays and keep the chameleons cool. Chameleons' colour switch revealed 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z It is the current "very asymmetrical, higgledy-piggledy constitutional agreement" that "is not fit for purpose" that many people in Wales are primarily concerned about, according to Dr Rebecca Rumbul, manager of the Welsh Governance Centre. Why Wales will make its own mind up on independence 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z There are narrow alleys between tight-packed makeshift houses that sit higgledy-piggledy on top of each other - and the trees have grown to provide much-needed shade. In pictures: Darfur refugees then and now 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Sandy Weill built the bank higgledy-piggledy over the course of decades, starting with a small consumer lender in the 1980s and ending with the largest bank in the United States. The biggest struggle yet for Citi's repairman 2012-11-28T06:12:14Z The capital's higgledy-piggledy public transport system is often berated by Londoners and employers, who complain that the jumble of grimy buses and delayed trains damages London's reputation as one of the world's premier cities. London wins early "gold" for slick rush hour 2012-07-30T15:54:11Z Several names may be set in higgledy-piggledy fashion, for they belong to no class, and are sui generis. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z I have heard, by a roundabout channel, that Herschel says my book "is the law of higgledy-piggledy." Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z The town itself is wretched, squalid, and hopelessly ramshackled, a despondent collection of tumbledown wooden houses, interspersed with indescribable negro huts, mere human rabbit-hutches, where parents and children herd together, in one higgledy-piggledy, tropical confusion. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z There were the dishes jumping higgledy-piggledy, pell-mell into the dish pan. The Mary Frances Cook Book Adventures Among the Kitchen People 2011-12-06T03:00:20.300Z The effect would be ludicrous, and give the beds a higgledy-piggledy appearance. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Jasper had 62 already unpacked her young lady’s things and laid them higgledy-piggledy in the spacious wardrobe. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z All classes hobnobbing together higgledy-piggledy; archbishops with acrobats; benchers with bumpkins; counts with candlestickmakers; dukes with druggists; and so on through the entire alphabet. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z Whenever their march ceases the æther stress is withdrawn, and the atoms are able to fall back into their old higgledy-piggledy condition. Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion 2011-06-19T02:00:25.633Z But the grand difficulty experienced was that of standing godfather, in a rolling, plunging vessel, which pitched everything and everybody higgledy-piggledy that wasn't made fast. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z We fling papers in disorder, higgledy-piggledy, on the floor: what do we care? My Little Boy 2011-03-12T03:00:27.087Z She has a license to rent two rooms in their higgledy-piggledy house and pays about $243 in taxes every month, whether the rooms are occupied or not. Cubans Savor Chance to Become Entrepreneurs 2011-02-04T00:22:28Z The contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z At 0400 every morning, Justo collects reject bricks and broken tiles from nearby factories and yards and deploys them in his church to higgledy-piggledy effect. Act of devotion 2010-12-30T08:17:25Z This little town, which consists of a single street along the western bank of the estuary and many houses set down higgledy-piggledy wherever room could be found, was once of some consequence. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z Architecturally, it was a higgledy-piggledy of houses on a high bare site; climatically, it was a mixture of furnace and hall of winds; socially, it was slow, and a disappointment; intellectually, it was below zero. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Quickly dismounting, he lent a hand of help in the lading of the waggons, which soon after-packed in a hurried, higgledy-piggledy fashion—were ready for the route. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z They are packed together higgledy-piggledy, often close to raw open sewers and many lacking even basic sanitation. Haiti shelter emergency as rain turns camps to mud 2010-02-18T19:25:00Z Madge had just thrown them in "higgledy-piggledy," instead of laying them straight, and they came out a crumpled heap. Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners At that time the park was a perfect wilderness, everything higgledy-piggledy, and at first he had only bungled, until at last the younger baron came. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History Reverently he pulled aside the front of the battered dwelling-place, and saw the minute furniture higgledy-piggledy. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The cargo of marble blocks, piled higgledy-piggledy like a child's building-bricks, formed a thorough citadel. The Tremendous Event Those who have no house wherein to shelter themselves, collect in the nooks of streets and squares, and there they lie, higgledy-piggledy, and half naked, upon filthy straw, or rather, dung-heaps. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Men and animals live together higgledy-piggledy in these abodes, which are far inferior to those of the Mongols, where, at least, the air is not infected by the presence of cattle and sheep. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] She lifts you up bodily, and, after well shaking all your members in the air several seconds, lets them down higgledy-piggledy, leaving to Providence the business of picking them up and putting them together again. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The whole host had fled higgledy-piggledy along the first road it came across, leaving behind it all its artillery, baggage, and ammunition wagons. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries "We were all in a higgledy-piggledy mix-up when you fired." My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia It is a bit of a surprise to find in this little Pecos Town of adobe huts set down higgledy-piggledy a tiny stone church with stained glass windows, a little gem in a wilderness. Through Our Unknown Southwest "I think it's fun," and Dotty danced around on one toe; "I'd like to live this way, always,—nothing in its place and all higgledy-piggledy!" Two Little Women "It is just lovely to have such a higgledy-piggledy day," Ruby exclaimed with a rapturous sigh of delight. Ruby at School Around him lay his treasures in shining piles; heaps of gold and silver, massive gold plate, the spoils of sanctuaries, sparkling gems, lay scattered about the floor higgledy-piggledy, like so much sand or gravel. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries When it comes all higgledy-piggledy and crisscross like this, no lens can put it together again; it is as hopelessly broken up as Humpty-Dumpty was. Common Science Unfortunately, the charges of information too often lodge higgledy-piggledy, like bird-shot in a signboard; and the waves of influence make an impression which is too often incoherent and confused. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College For instead of the neat piles of snow-white linen it was filled with rubbish—with husks of maize and mouldy cabbage-stalks, thrown in higgledy-piggledy with bundles of clothes and rags of every sort and kind. A Bride of the Plains Before we had time to scream or to paralize our danger, over we all went, pell-mell, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, down, down, down into the foaming water! Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Indeed she had by this time come to share her father's opinion, that dinner was the right and dignified thing in all cases, and that they had been hitherto living in a very higgledy-piggledy way. Phoebe, Junior A paper of tea and a loaf of bread I found in a higgledy-piggledy mixture of clothes, books and papers. The Belovéd Vagabond But, when the pseudochrysalids are placed higgledy-piggledy in a box or jar, all those which are upside down will later contain inverted larv� or nymphs. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles All his old values had been kicked into higgledy-piggledy confusion. The Rough Road We crossed the Yangtse the next day on a large flat-bottomed boat into which we all crowded higgledy-piggledy, the men and their loads, pony and chairs. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia We were in a higgledy-piggledy looking corner, surrounded by rough shelters or stables for animals, horses and camels, and the unfinished but covered approaches to the Mahdi's tomb. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head over heels, rough and tumble! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 "And here's a Noah's Ark, full of higgledy-piggledy animals—why, what are you doing here?" The Admiral's Caravan Moreover, the prospect of having no cell to himself, of sleeping dressed higgledy-piggledy in a dormitory, alarmed him. En Route There were watches, snuff-boxes, and pencils, bracelets and brooches, handkerchiefs and gloves, studs, pins, and rings—all huddled together higgledy-piggledy. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Sailor shanties and landsmen's nautical effusions were jumbled together higgledy-piggledy, along with 'Full Fathom Five' and the 'Eton Boating Song.' The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties The walls were covered with books and charts; the floor was littered with manuscripts, mathematical instruments, huge folios, piled higgledy-piggledy, carpenter's tools, retorts, bottles of chemicals. The Blue Pavilions Quite as good as Mr Bott's, when he said in the House the other night that the Government kept their accounts in a higgledy-piggledy way. Can You Forgive Her? They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 A curious custom in Algeria is to use all descriptions of patterns together "higgledy-piggledy," upside down or side-ways, as though the idea were to cover so much surface with tiling, irrespective of design. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond The general appearance was higgledy-piggledy—hand to mouth domesticity mixed up with the work by which the young man earned, or tried to earn, his living. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Its burrows, scattered here and there, higgledy-piggledy with those of the Minotaur, are easy to recognise. Social Life in the Insect World Do not forget that if your joint is not properly prepared, that is to say, true and even, it is sure to be a failure, and will have a "higgledy-piggledy" appearance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 It is hardly necessary to say that in these underground cells men, women, and children live together higgledy-piggledy, and that the result of such an existence is widespread disease. Roumania Past and Present Strawberries bigger than those of England, and cherries in clusters like grapes, blackbirds with carnation-colored wings, Indians who painted their eyebrows white and made faces over mustard, were mixed higgledy-piggledy in his bubbling talk. Days of the Discoverers The windows were never open, and through the huge sheets of plate glass could be dimly seen in the thick blue tobacco smoke a higgledy-piggledy crowd of beds. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia In spite of the abundance of large and fine-looking buildings, there is a rather higgledy-piggledy look about the town--the city you will by this time own it to be. Town Life in Australia "That will be a nice mess! everything higgledy-piggledy!" All Around the Moon In the seventeenth century a few ballads were printed entire in poetic miscellanies entitled "Garlands," higgledy-piggledy with pieces of all kinds. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century It is difficult to find dates in this higgledy-piggledy chance-medley of facts and opinions. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 On a bed of withered spruce boughs, strewn higgledy-piggledy upon the camp-floor—mother earth—lay the form of a man. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods There was a pile of short, thick masses, lying higgledy-piggledy, stuff from the neighboring mines, which needed to be crossed with foreign stock before it could be of much use in civilization. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Of course those in the higgledy-piggledy position must be of the poorest class, but you can make a few exceptions. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The walls had a gap here, roughly choked up by a higgledy-piggledy heap of rubbish. The Son of Clemenceau All at once the Draug let go, so that the whole crew fell higgledy-piggledy backwards on to the floor. Weird Tales from Northern Seas Every sort of craft—motor-boat, gig, lugger and steamboat—makes for sea, higgledy-piggledy in a long line, an irregular procession of black and blue and green and white and brown. The Pleasures of Ignorance You will be compelled to admit that your 'character,' as it is to-day, is a structure that has been built almost without the aid of an architect; higgledy-piggledy, anyhow. The Human Machine If one is struck by the magnificence of the great towns of the Continent, one should ratiocinate, and conclude that a major characteristic of the great towns of England is their shabby and higgledy-piggledy slovenliness. The Author's Craft Please not to-night; we are all higgledy-piggledy—at sixes and sevens! Nancy We were all seated higgledy-piggledy at table, dish after dish came in; every one helped themselves, no carving was required, being all made dishes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 They walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city. Cheerful—By Request But I was deceived when I bought this business, and the stock was higgledy-piggledy, and I haven’t yet tasted my way quite through it with a view to sorting it. The Uncommercial Traveller Prince Alphabet turned topsy-turvy, I call him, for his name's got all the letters in it, higgledy-piggledy.' David Copperfield In some battalions there were only sufficient knapsacks for a quarter of the men, the others carrying their clothes, provisions, and cartridges all higgledy-piggledy in canvas bags. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 His verse sometimes seems mere verbiage, but it is always a higgledy-piggledy, Santa Claus bagful of things. Drum Taps Her eyes were so tired and all sorts of things were walking higgledy-piggledy up the white wall…. The Path of Life The most splendidly angelic inspirations will not suffice to compensate the poet for feet that draggle in the mud, or stumble higgledy-piggledy among stony words, which his toes should have kissed into jewels. Impressions and Comments Pigs, on a march, do not subject themselves to any leader among themselves, but pass on, higgledy-piggledy, without regard to age or sex. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 But it was all higgledy-piggledy: his mind was a Babel, an old Jew's curiosity shop in which there were piled up in the one room rare treasures, precious stuffs, scrap-iron, and rags. Jean-Christophe, Volume I He reformed the higgledy-piggledy naval tactics of the time and taught the commanders to attack the enemy in line, the most important change in the sea annals of his country. The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670 They lay scattered higgledy-piggledy, whole handfuls of them, crooked and straight, brown and black. The Path of Life An inspection of a Public Library Catalogue reveals, no doubt, a certain proportion of "serious" books available, but, as a rule, that "serious side" is a quite higgledy-piggledy heap of fragments. Mankind in the Making Not that all the vast accumulation needs to be thrown pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy into the discard. The Glands Regulating Personality A little piano stood in one corner, a great violoncello in another; rows of books higgledy-piggledy, pipes, and in the window pots of geraniums. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Flabbergasted and higgledy-piggledy are "colloquial," while roseate and whilom are "literary." The Century Vocabulary Builder The furniture was thrown in higgledy-piggledy, and all attempts to put things to rights were postponed until the next day. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales With this send-off there ensues a wild chase and a hustle, pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy, each party striving to bowl the piece over the other's goal. Indian Games : an historical research And Timocles never gets hold of an effective idea; he can only ladle out trite commonplaces higgledy-piggledy—no sooner heard than refuted. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 If we keep our letters at all we throw them higgledy-piggledy into a box and have done with them; let some one else arrange them when the owner is dead. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Naturally he has followed his librettist in aiming at contrast, at higgledy-piggledy finales, at garish orchestration, at strenuous declamation in the dialogue not cast in melodic forms and at abrupt changes. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time For many years we have all known that the Executive and Administrative departments of the government in Washington are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers. The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt The rest of us, higgledy-piggledy, lay by night on the mud-floor, with a little pease-straw for litter, and scrambled all together for the remnants of the old tyrant's food. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The present chaos of tables, chairs, bureaus, and sideboards, heaped higgledy-piggledy one upon the other—the customers edging their way between lanes of dusty furniture—must next be abolished. Felix O'Day They are not so much arranged about one another as superposed and higgledy-piggledy. First and Last Things The floor, which was that of the once cosy morning-room, was carpetless; its usual furniture stood about higgledy-piggledy, all in the wrong places, naked and forlorn. Sisters They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself. Maurice Guest Fragments of columns, fragments of obelisks, broken by downfalls of which the mere imagination is awful, heads and head-dresses of giant divinities, all lie higgledy-piggledy in a disorder beyond possible redress. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) The result was that when it was finished it presented a sort of 'higgledy-piggledy' appearance. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Such, however, was our infatuation, that now we considered the stockade stronger, because it looked more higgledy-piggledy. The Eureka Stockade Yes, sir, the same day; and her things are lying about higgledy-piggledy. The Gadfly Here we disembarked, higgledy-piggledy, just as we had embarked. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography At last he took out a drawer and actually began arranging its medley of contents; ties, letters, studs, concert and theatre programmes—all higgledy-piggledy. The Return Bless your heart, they know no better: everything they ever saw, or read, or heard tell of— it all comes out higgledy-piggledy just before they goes off. Hard Cash However rashly the diggers had acted in taking up arms, however higgledy-piggledy had been the management of the stockade, yet they were justified in resisting unconstitutional force by force. The Eureka Stockade Therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Moby Dick, or, the whale The doors of the sideboard stood wide with its contents scattered higgledy-piggledy on the carpet. Okewood of the Secret Service The rest of the space was filled with Ephraim's dirty old account books, jumbled higgledy-piggledy with collections of printed, unbound sermons, such as used to be sold forty years before, in the great Puritan time. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger A multitude of things that hitherto had been higgledy-piggledy, contradictory and incongruous in his mind became lucid, serene, full and assured. Soul of a Bishop |
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