21 collocations for jumbles

he mumbled, jumbling the words together almost incoherently.

Look at France, where they are trying to jumble up the two things, a head of the State responsible to the people who elect him, and a ministry responsible to the Parliament.

The reader jumbles the characters together, and would fain see at least one couple cleared off the stage in order to simplify matters.

It commences with "the inductive process," and after forty pages of such matter as is described above, becomes a "productive system," by means of a misnamed "RECAPITULATION;" which jumbles together the etymology and the syntax of the language, through seventy-six pages more.

Yet I cannot think it by any means a commendable practice, thus to jumble together different forms; and indeed it is certainly better, as the two modes of expression have different significations, to confine each to its distinct and proper use, agreeably to Dr. Crombie's rule, even when no mistake could arise from interchanging them.

Here was Vera Michailovna and her husband, Nina and Boris Grogoff, Bohun and Lawrence, myself and Semyonova jumbled lotwith all our pitiful self-important little histories, our crimes and virtues so insignificant and so quickly over, and behind them the fine stuff of the human and divine soul, pushing on through all raillery and incongruity to its goal.

After he had gone on for some Time in this unintelligible Cant, I found that he jumbled natural and moral Ideas together into th

I like thae sermons best that jumbles the joodgment and confoonds the sense.

17.Sometimes a noun that admits no article, is preceded by adjectives that do not describe the same thing; as, "Never to jumble metaphorical and plain language together.

Down with those tiresome hands; you jumble together all my leaves; you give me one colour instead of the other: you are spoiling all I have done.

Here was Vera Michailovna and her husband, Nina and Boris Grogoff, Bohun and Lawrence, myself and Semyonova jumbled lotwith all our pitiful self-important little histories, our crimes and virtues so insignificant and so quickly over, and behind them the fine stuff of the human and divine soul, pushing on through all raillery and incongruity to its goal.

[Footnote 74: In the MS, some corruption has jumbled these names together.

And worse than that, one and allJew, Turk, infidel, and heretic, as well as the orthodoxjoined in pious horror at his irreverence;the shocking way he had of jumbling religion and politicsthe human and the divinethe theories of the pulpit with the facts of the exchange. .

She must hear about the Sturgis Water Line, and hints of the Maestro, and how wonderful Phil had been, teaching Kirk and all, and how perfectly magnificent Kirk was altogethera jumbled rigamarole of salvaged motor-boats, reclaimed farm-house, music, somebody's son at sea, and dear knows what else, till Mrs. Sturgis hardly knew whether or not any of this wild dream was verity.

Thus all his affairs he drives on in disguise, And he tickles mankind with a feather, Creeps in at one's ear, and looks out at our eyes, And jumbles our senses together.

Or you may make a list of such topics, writing each on a separate piece of paper; may jumble the slips in a hat; and may thus have always at your elbow a collection of satisfactory themes from which you may take one at random.

In a single paper are jumbled together topics so diverse as the degradation of the stage, the immoderate use of tea, and the proper choice of lovers.

Some are apt to jumble together the active voice and the passive, and thus destroy the unity even of a short sentence; as, "By exercising our memories, they are improved.

However, the rip-split-smash outside kind of jumbled three yarns into one.

So that, after all, to suppose that Mrs. Bargrave could hatch such an invention as this, from Friday noon to Saturday noonsupposing that she knew of Mrs. Veal's death the very first momentwithout jumbling circumstances, and without any interest, too, she must be more witty, fortunate, and wicked, too, than any indifferent person, I dare say, will allow.

This rule not only jumbles together several different constructions, such as would require different cases in Latin or Greek, but is evidently repugnant to the sense of many of the passages to which it is meant to be applied.

21 collocations for  jumbles