So far I've got a sort of confused jumble of a haunted house and vacations and Mrs. Gilligan.

And as he approached it, the wind clearing a high blowing mist from the stars, he saw a jumble of outlying houses.

It was only a jumble of exclamations, but now he heard: "But, Lou, what a wild idea.

" There was a strangled sound deep in the throat of Godwin; then he was able to speak again, but now his voice was made into a horrible jumble by fear.

If you are so besotted by your prejudices that you refuse to see the nose before your face; if you don't believe your own officer who swore he saw Ranelagh's hands upon my sister's throat, then this world is all a jumble and it makes very little difference to me whether I'm alive or dead.

Yet out of the jumble of fragments, a fairly respectable insight has been gained in less than a half century.

The shops present a jumble of all kinds of wares; and the Turks sit cross-legged in the window, or work at their trade inside.

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 he continued his exhibition, now moralizing in the quaint and often in the pithy manner, which renders the southern buffoon so much superior to his duller competitor of the north, and uttering a wild jumble of wholesome truths, loose morality, and witty inuendoes, the latter of which never failed to extort roars of laughter from all but those who happened to be their luckless subjects.

Then came a perfect jumble.

As he caught it, it was like this: "J5nsefvat5f," followed by an arbitrary signal which is not in the Morse code: "Dash-dot-dash-dash!" Mr. Grimm carefully stored that jumble away in some recess of his brain, along with the unknown signal.

As a leader or a follower, he makes an odd jumble of interests.

What a jumble is a newspaper!

However, I cannot find among them what is worth twenty-five ducats, the whole being a jumble of rascally work.

The wagons and carts creaked and strained and rattled under their swaying loads, and the line gradually defined itself along the road from the confused jumble at the camp.

A miserable jumble, in the successive pages of which, Grammar is mixed up with Spelling-columns, Reading-lessons, Arithmetic, Geometry, and the other supposed daily tasks of a school-boy! BAILEY, N., Schoolmaster; "English and Latin Exercises;" 12mo, pp. 183: London.

It is not easy to quote, from any source, a worse sentence than this; if, indeed, so strange a jumble of words can be called a sentence.

I cannot consent to quote more than one short paragraph of the miserable jumble which these pages contain.

" Samuel Kirkham, whose grammar is briefly described in the third chapter of this introduction, boldly lays the blame of all his philological faults, upon our noble language itself; and even conceives, that a well-written and faultless grammar cannot be a good one, because it will not accord with that reasonless jumble which he takes every existing language to be!

They made their way up the slope and among the jumble of rocks that looked as if giants had been tossing them about in sport.

While Aaron King, with James Rutlidge and Mr. Taine, with carefully assumed interest, was listening to Louise's effort to make a jumble of "ohs" and "ahs" and artistic sighs sound like a description of a sunset in the mountains, Mrs. Taine said quietly to Conrad Lagrange, "You certainly have taken excellent care of your protege, this summer.

Here was Musafferabad, the whole place a confused jumble of wheeled traffic caught up by the big landslip in front.

All through the United States the finances were in utter disorder, the medium of exchange being a jumble of almost worthless paper currency, and of foreign coin of every kind, while the standard of value varied from State to State.

So it was; because we did not jumble in all the Analysis and Compound Proportion of housekeeping right on top of the multiplication-table.

We could not go straight up owing to the nature of that jumble of broken cliffs and matted scrub forests.