" They followed their unfortunate comrade to his desk, which when opened displayed a perfect chaos of ragged books, loose sheets of paper, broken pen-holders, pieces of string, battered cardboard boxes, and other rubbish.

"'Drudgery is the gray angel of success, for drudgery is the doing of one thing long after it ceases to be amusing, and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers and turns powers into achievements.

For five minutes chaos reigned upon the east stand.

The Atlantic resembled a chaos of waters, the portions of the rolling sheet that were not white with foam, looking green and angry.

Since the thirteenth century, when the anarchic element sprang full-grown into the history of humanity, that history has been chaos.

And this republic is the culmination of chaos.

" "Out of chaos came the new-born earth," suggested the Doctor.

But those who have given time and patience to the task have been able to read order even in the chaos of the ant-hill.

The paralysis of government now enabled sober statesmen to point the prospect of ruin through chaos and get a hearing in their advocacy of sound system.

The soul of the priest had been in torment heretofore, but chaos engulfed it during the hours that followed.

V She remember'd Chaos a little child, Strumming upon hand organs; At the birth of Old Night a gossip she sat, The ancientest there, and was godmother at The christening of the Gorgons.

"Thus, by the creative influence of the Eternal Spirit, were the heavens and the earth finished in the space of six daysso admirably finishedan unformed chaos changed into a system of perfect order and beautythat the adorable Architect himself pronounced it very good, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

The Presence had come to hold her mind true, in this passage through chaos....

I left the apartment in a chaos of thoughts.

For a long time after the partition of the vast empire of Charlemagne government was in a state of chaos and transition from which eventually the various distinct states arose.

After Empedocles, who divined that Eros evolved the worlds from Chaos, metaphysics have not advanced one step.

The Napoleonic age had the terrific formlessness of chaos.

In Wuthering Heights we are plunged apparently into a world of most unspiritual lusts and hates and cruelties; into the very darkness and thickness of elemental matter; a world that would be chaos, but for the iron Necessity that brings its own terrible order, its own implacable law of lust upon lust begotten, hate upon hate, and cruelty upon cruelty, through the generations of Heathcliffs and of Earnshaws.

Such an association should embrace the Balkans in their widest extent from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and from the Carpathians to the Aegean; for, in sharp contrast to the inextricable chaos of its linguistic and ecclesiastical divisions, the region constitutes economically a homogeneous and indivisible whole, in which none of the parts can divest themselves of their mutual interdependence.

He did, however, live to see not only the germ of a nation emerge from chaos, but also the framework of an organization for governing it well or ill.

The master of chaos.

I have so little to do with all these matters, that I came hither this morning, and left this new chaos to arrange itself as it pleases.

After such an awful storm, and in all that chaos of waves, what chance was there of finding a little brig such as they were after? "But vessels sail in regular courses," Cardatas said to him.

The hum of a great assembly breathed turbidly upon us in a hushed chaos of sound.

CHAOS, a name in the ancient cosmogomy for the formless void out of which everything at first sprang into existence, or the wide-spread confusion that prevailed before it shaped itself into order under the breath of the spirit of life.