The result is an indescribable hubbub; a garish human kaleidoscope, accompanied by fiendish clamor and unmusical noises which fairly outstrip a dozen jazz bands.

I had decided to relieve the patience of my readers with the thirty-first chapter; but when the retrospective kaleidoscope closed, a vision rose before me so vivid, so real, that I am constrained to describe it in the hope that the warning may prevent the tragic part of the dream from becoming a reality.

The whole concave of heaven seemed transformed into one great revolving kaleidoscope of shattered rainbows.

It occurred to us, furthermore, that it is a dolorous thing to live on a lonely little island, tied up like a wart on the face of civilization,no healthful stream of life coming and going from the great body of the main land,the same moral air to be breathed over and over again, without renewal,the same social elements turned and returned in one tiresome kaleidoscope.

The variously coloured states began to form a vast kaleidoscope, in which the lakes and rivers had been entirely swallowed up.