"Mixed-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... life from what the fictioneers would paint it! How hopelessly mixed-up and macaronic, how undignified in what ought to be its big moments and how pompous in so many of ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... to a piece of property in which Mrs. Parloe held an interest. I have been trying to get a free and clear title to the land for a client of mine, and another real estate dealer named Andrew Shanley has been trying to get the land for another party. It is a mixed-up affair, but I hoped the signing of that paper would help to ...
— From Farm to Fortune - or Nat Nason's Strange Experience • Horatio Alger Jr.
... he set with sheep and goats, a mighty moving band, To battle down the homeward track along the Overland— It's droving mixed-up mobs like that that makes men cut their throats. I've travelled rams, which Lord forget, but ...
— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson
... centre. No one can be astray in using fine white damask. If a lady wishes to have the more rare Russian embroidery, the gold embroidered on the open-work table-cloth, she can do so, but let her not put any cloth on her table that will not wash. The mixed-up things trimmed with velvet or satin or ribbon, which are occasionally seen on vulgar ...
— Manners and Social Usages • Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
... country, and when I got back tonight I found that I had come to a decision without knowing it, and that I had come to it even before I started; my leaving the letter for you proved it. It's a little like this Mexican war, a mixed-up problem and only one thing clear. A few schemers have led the country into it to increase the slave-power and make us forget that we threatened England when we couldn't carry out the threat. And yet, if you look at it broadly, these are the smaller things ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
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