"Topsy-turvy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... potential, none can doubt, As it sent Harry Brougham to the right about— The condition in which the patient has been Is a thing quite awful to be seen. Not that a casual eye could scan This wondrous change by outward survey; It being, in fact, the interior man That's turned completely topsy-turvy:— Like a case that lately, in reading o'er 'em, I found in the Acta Eruditorum, Of a man in whose inside, when disclosed, The whole order of things was found transposed; By a lusus naturae, strange to see, The liver placed where the heart should be, And the spleen (like Brougham's, since ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
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... fist on the table. "Why, it takes a man all his time to find out where he stands in this topsy-turvy city. Just tell me what this commotion is about, will you? It may be easy enough for a Frenchman to understand, but for me—it ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
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... that in my absence you could have behaved badly! Another in your place would have turned the house topsy-turvy, but you have only broken a pane of glass! God bless you for your considerateness. Go on in the same way and you ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac
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... another look round," suggested Fisher. So once more the study was turned topsy-turvy, and every nook and cranny searched. But no money was there, nor ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
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... four numbers they used an I, which naturally represents them. To mark the fifth, they chose a V, which is made out by bending inwards the three middle fingers, and stretching out only the thumb and the little finger; and for the tenth they used an X, which is a double V, one placed topsy-turvy under the other. From this the progression of these numbers is always from one to five, and from five to ten. The hundred was signified by the capital letter of that word in Latin, C—centum. The other letters, D for 500, and M for a 1000, were afterwards added. They subsequently abbreviated ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
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