Adv. irregularly &c adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c 218.

It is a well-trussed title that contains both the number and the beast; for a committee-man is a noun of multitude, he must be spelled with figures, like Antichrist wrapped in a pair-royal of sixes.

Republished in the volume, Sixes and Sevens (1911), by O. Henry; copyright, 1911, by Doubleday, Page & Co.; reprinted by their permission.]

Two heavyset men wearing shorts, T-shirts, and baseball caps were easing a boulder from the truck bed onto an impromptu ramp of two-by-sixes.

There he is leaving everything at sixes and sevens, and driving through the streets, and busying himself about those poison politics.'

"Cousin Samuel died in February, and affairs have been at sixes and sevens since, wanting my presence in England.

The Two Sexes, in Fives or Sixes A Dinner-party Study VII.

The Two Sexes in Fives or Sixes.

The 'platform' might also be used for musketeers, in an action, and on examining it, Mark determined to bring over one of the two long sixes, and mount it there, with a view to command the offing.

Two of the carronades were on the Summit, judiciously planted; two were on board the Abraham, as was one of the long sixes, and the remainder of the guns, (three at the rock excepted) were still on board the ship.

She had quarters, having been used once as a privateer, and mounted ten sixes.

The main battery of the ship was composed of guns of that description, while one of the brigs carried eight nines, and the other fourteen sixes.

"Everything in sixes and sevensa man like thatand an ending like this to it all.

Here it is affirmed, that the two sixes added together are twelve."Id.

The establishment was, as it is said, at sixes and sevens.

R100856, 13Oct52, Marguerite Pearl Packard (W) PAGE, ARTHUR W., ed. Sixes and sevens.

R100348, 30Sep52, Burges Johnson (A) PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY. Sixes and sevens, by O. Henry [pseud.

R100856, 13Oct52, Marguerite Pearl Packard (W) PAGE, ARTHUR W., ed. Sixes and sevens.

R100348, 30Sep52, Burges Johnson (A) PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY. Sixes and sevens, by O. Henry [pseud.

The general being prevailed upon to spare one of them, ordered them to cast dice upon the drumhead for their lives; the first having thrown two sixes, the second fell a wringing his hands, having so poor a chance to escape; however, having thrown, he was surprised when he also threw other two sixes.

The general being prevailed upon to spare one of them, ordered them to cast dice upon the drumhead for their lives; the first having thrown two sixes, the second fell a wringing his hands, having so poor a chance to escape; however, having thrown, he was surprised when he also threw other two sixes.

Of these she had four of a side, while the two sixes on her forecastle were prepared for similar service.

If chance is spoken of as an ingredient of the universe, absolutists interpret it to mean that double sevens are as likely to be thrown out of a dice box as double sixes are.

One reason is, when things is all walkin' backwards folks says they're at sixes and sevens.

House in rather strange condition to-night; things all sevens and sixes; Motion is that Anglo-German Agreement Bill be read Second Time.