Trained nurses, for example, were uncommonly well-informed and agreeable young women, when you came to know themand quite lady-like, too, for all that in our topsy-turvy days these girls had to work for their living.

Beppo, then, on this particular rainy afternoon, came in with a flat basket full of newly cut wood on his head, respectfully saluted the Padrona, and, after throwing down his load in a corner of the kitchen, leisurely turned his basket topsy-turvy, seated himself upon it, and prepared to take his part in the general conversation.

" "He has turned the whole place topsy-turvy in two years, in my opinion," said Miss Crewys.

Her furniture was topsy-turvy, and her hair in curl-papers; she obviously did not expect visitors, and resented this curtailment of the honeymoon.

How come their wits thus topsy-turvy turn'd? Hercules Tactus, Visus Polypheme!

He could be seen working madly to keep from overturning, but apparently his hour had struck, for the last Jack saw of the beaten Gotha it was turning topsy-turvy, falling like a shooting star attracted to the earth by the law of gravitation.

" "Winds, weapons, flames make not such hurly burly, As raving women turn all topsy-turvy.

The Commune of Paris cannot allow such abuses to exist; the Commune maintains universal suffragethe grand basis of republican institutionsbut turns it topsy-turvy.

"I don't suppose they'll trouble me much, but they'll turn your place topsy-turvy, I expect.

He has turned religion and the Caledonian Chapel topsy-turvy.

So you see Marjorie's day began all wrong, for everything started topsy-turvy.

And when they do, she catches them by the heels and turns everything topsy-turvy all day long; but when you get out of bed toes first, I'll be there to start you on a pleasant day and Witchy Crosspatch will have to return to Make-Believe Land and hide her head!"

Aunt Katy Didd wheeled Johnny's little sister Teeny in the Cricket baby buggy and helped Mamma Cricket lay the rugs and wash the stone-work, for you see the Cricket winter home was in the chimney of a big old-fashioned house and the walls were very dusty, and everything was topsy-turvy.

These two young men, materially aided by Jennie, speedily turned the house topsy-turvy.

De'il gaed o'er Jock Wabstereverything went topsy-turvy.

If she had been beautiful she might have set the social world topsy-turvy.

" "It is a delightful place for us," replied the Barn Swallow; "but now the House People who own the farm are coming back to live here themselves, and everything is turned topsy-turvy.

In the growing unreality of it all, in the distorted outlines of a world gone topsy-turvy, amid the deadly blurr of things material and mental, Ailsa Paige's face alone remained strangely clear.

Even our own morality, on which we pride ourselves, how confused and topsy-turvy it is in many respects!

This, indeed, is the prevalent sentiment on the subject, though the more I think of it, the more absurd and topsy turvy it seems to me.

No less topsy-turvy is the Hindoo Svayamvara or "Maiden's Choice," to which Westermarck alludes (162).

What Midsummer Night's Dream reasoning, turning common-sense topsy-turvy, and treating the words of God in the very reverse way from that in which all sane people agree to treat the words of man!

" "Do you mean to say you are going to let that man turn every thing topsy-turvy, and the congregation out of the church, John Bevis?" "I never saw such a congregation in it before, Mrs. Ramshorn.

That was in the good old days when the war was young, when armies were taking up positions, when the management of newspaper reporters was not developed to a fine art, when Europe was topsy-turvy, when it was quite the thing for war correspondents to outwit the authorities and see all they could.

Because the whole request is topsy-turvy turvyAnd you are, too.