topsyturviness

Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

THE PRINCESS 2010

Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

The Princess 1918

I have added thereto hints on the critical judgment of pictures with the hope of simplifying to the many the means of knowing pictures, prompted by the recollection of the topsyturviness of this question as it confronted my own mind a score of years ago.

Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899

Oh, well-a-day and lack-a-day, the whirligig of time and fortune, the topsyturviness of luck, the wooden shoe going up and the polished heel descending a French gunboat, a conquered island kingdom of

The Red One Jack London 1896

The right attitude to take up, however, is the reverse one, viz., to start with an insight into our modern topsyturviness, and to look back from antiquity to it -- and many things about antiquity which have hitherto displeased us will then be seen to have been most profound necessities.

We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

A dream would usually begin with some lightheaded topsyturviness, as when Kennaston found himself gazing forlornly down at his remote feet -- having grown so tall that they were yards away from him and he was afraid to stand up -- or lean strangers carefully and gruesomely explained the importance of the task set him by quoting fragments of the multiplication tables, or a mad bull who happened to be the King of Spain was pursuing him through a city of blind people.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917