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He was stammering; hysterical, and the words tumbled from his lips in a jumble.
And as he approached it, the wind clearing a high blowing mist from the stars, he saw a jumble of outlying houses.
I thought I located the questioner among the jumbled mass below, and with my eyes on him, answered for all his mates.
He mumbled, jumbling the words together almost incoherently.
Their talk was a strange tipsy jumble.
Secondly, or their simple ones jumbled disorderly together.
I once saw a creature that was the issue of a cat and a rat, and had the plain marks of both about it; wherein nature appeared to have followed the pattern of neither sort alone, but to have jumbled them both together.
And, as we went, the whole mad jumble of the Colonel's stories ran through my brain, touching a sense of frightened laughter that was only held in check by the sight of this earnest, hurrying figure before me.
The gay colors of the riders flicker confusedly in a jumble.
Mechanically her fingers straightened the tumbled covers, removed a jumble of magazines, flicked away the crumbs.
And such a weltering anarchy it was: men, horses, and guns jammed together in one grand promiscuous jumble.
I saw scrawled across it an indecipherable jumble of words.
The memory brought back to him his squat henchman's weird jumbling of the strike system.
I rode all the way down that steep slope of dense saplings, loose rock slides and earth, and jumble of splintered cliff.
The grizzly had eluded the hounds in that jumble of rocks below.
Cliff on cliff, slide on slide, jumble, crag, and ruin, baffled my gaze.
The last jumble of splintered rock cleared, we faced a terrible and wonderful scene.
When we surmounted to the crest we found a jumble of weathered rocks ready to slide down on either side.
She was part of the insanely jumbled muddle of a world which impedes the sensible life.
They came to her all jumbled and confused through such a torrent of gladness as surely she had never known before.
There on the floor Ruth discovered a jumble of stools and white draperies.
I clenched my fist upon the only dip which remained alight (the other was somewhere in the jumble under my feet).
It was no more than a jumble of rocks and gravel, which had been rent in many ways, apparently by an earthquake shock.
Under the pressure of these jumbled emotions, brethren began to rise up in their pews and say what they would give.
The sea was jumbling up and down irregularly, as though great animals had just stopped fighting there.
They were so jumbled, so multitudinous, and so diverse that I could get no clear idea of them.
They went ashore on the banks of the little river and began to clamber over a terrific jumble of rocks.
It ended in a confused jumble like the glittering fragments of a beautiful thing shattered to atoms at a blow.
He said, his words rushing over each other in a confused jumble utterly unlike his usual incisive speech.
It was sighted at low range, and the boom, whiz, and crash seemed to jumble all together.
There was a brighter flush, too, than usual, on Ella's cheek, for she knew that she had done wrong, and she so jumbled together the words of her lesson, that the teacher made her repeat it twice, asking her what was the matter.
Throw them down in a heap, and they are the most confused jumble of unrelated bits; but once in the magical tube of his fancy, and, with a shake and a turn, they assume figures that have the absolute perfection of geometry.
Here they lay, these integers of the line, huddled, jumbled.
And all this jumble is due, if we are to believe the remedy, to human misunderstanding.
He drew up his chair to the table, piled a jumble of coins in front of him and took into his hands the enticing cubes.
Their conversation was carried on in a kind of jumble of English chiefly, and he gathered, at all events, that it was a lucrative business, and an occupation which seemed likely to suit him in every way.
Its evolution is not all a mere formless craze and jumble.
It was the most marvelous jumble that ever ran through any kaleidoscope.
If the precipitation has been hasty, the crystals will, though all small, be of many sizes jumbled together, and in that case the beautiful optical phenomenon with which we are now dealing will not occur.
There exists a matrimonial jumble to be straightened out.
His eyes were brilliant, but the remainder of his face it was difficult to decipher, as it was evidently painted, and the night's jumbling in the wagon had so smeared it, that it appeared of almost every color in the rainbow.
Carl glanced intently at the jumbled list and fell feverishly to working from a different viewpoint.
They may be regularly arranged, or jumbled together haphazard.
I had a crow-bar, but it's lost in the jumble.
They stood looking at this crowd of loveliness, this happy jumble, in silence.
I had jumbled my speech without wit or address, like a peasant dragging his milkmaid before the village cur?.
The main street zigzagged carelessly through a jumble of little houses.
They will probably get so jumbled up no one will be able to tell which is the chief hero or heroine, and there will be no logical development at all, which my English teacher insists is an elemental requirement of fiction if it isn't of life.
It is a vast jumble of more or less uncritical statements regarding almost every field of contemporary knowledge.
He sat in the shrubbery, his chin in his hand, staring moodily at the adoring mongrel, Jumble.
When some instinct born in the very blood of him warned Buddy that time was passing, he stood up and saw that the sun hung just above the edge of the world, and that the sky was a glorious jumble of red and purple and soft rose.
This is the sort of division which an intelligent crane would make: he would put cranes into a class by themselves for their special glory, and jumble together all others, including man, in the class of beasts.
Forward not so much as the twitch of a muscle revealed any other presence in the boat, the only visible thing a jumble of ropes and canvas, apparently dragged hastily from the water by inexperienced hands.
He tried to speak, but made only an inarticulate jumble of sounds.
A torrent of thoughts, memories, pictures and concepts poured over him in a jumble; the sensory sensations of the alien came to him sharply, and memories that were strange, ideas that were incomprehensible, all in a sudden rush upon his mind.
A squeaky jumble of noises could be heard.
"You accused me personally, saying that because of my idolatry I had neglected my duty; but really you made such a jumble of it all, with papa's visitors, and Sunday afternoons, that I cannot follow what was in your mind."
It paralyzed his hand, and threw all his ideas into a jumble.
This jumble of people on the lawn seemed unreal and detached.
Words tumbling from her lips in a witless jumble.
A jumble of charred wood and twisted iron behind had been her shop.
Now and then he referred to it aloud, in jumbled and meaningless ejaculations.
It was all one happy, unintelligible jumble.
And then a guttural level jumble of sounds.
It consists of a regular jumble of mountains, densely wooded, and often most precipitous.
In the real life of the country or town the objects and materials of knowledge, representing the sciences of nature and the arts of life, are closely jumbled together and intimately dependent upon each other.
The two men, huddled against a jumble of packing cases in the cargo hold of the Annie Jones, made careful preparations.
I found I had a couple of hours to spare in Bremen, and I remembered that my little girl had said that she had never had a Christmas tree, so I went up town, bought a jumble of Christmas toys, and took them to the steamer with me.
It was a striking feature of the business, that, however abundant the strawberries might be, selected fruit always commanded a higher price than that which went to market in a jumble just as it came from the vines.
Even his dreams were a jumble of plows and personal pronouns, of mathematical problems and social proprieties.
Of what a strange jumble of apocryphal treasures the painter believed himself the possessor!
It was indeed a strange jumble of prince and pauper, friend and foe, patriot and adventurer.
Just like tulips and roses and several brands of perfume jumbled together.
The French people jumble everything up so that I can't make head or tail of it.
The slope was one great talus, a jumble of weathered rock, fallen from what appeared a mountain of red and yellow wall.
The shade of wall and foliage above, and another jumble of ruined cliff, hindered his survey of the ground ahead, and he almost stumbled upon a cabin, hidden on three sides, with a small, bare clearing in front.
There was nothing there but a jumble of broken tubes, discarded parts and bare wire ends dangling from the walls.
Some were sulky, and resented this jumbling of the innocent and guilty.
He asked, his eyes on the amazing jumble of trunks and branches.
Of Friedrich and his demeanor in this strange scene, center of a World all drawing sword, and jumbling in huge Diplomatic and other delirium about his ears, the reader will desire to see a direct glimpse or two.
Blatant, jumbled noise filled the room.
The congregation seemed to him conglomerate, a jumble of conflicting elements.
That meaningless jumble of letters could only be juggled into sense by an expert.
A man was clambering carefully down the jumbled stones, making a detour to dodge the battered fender.
Margot left him, muttering to herself: 'Such a jumble children do make of things!
A young monkey is full of mischief, a young puppy is full of play, a young kitten is always ready for fun, but a boy seems to combine the qualities of all three, and to have a stock of his own to jumble up with them.
Why is it outrageously yellow or white, or blue or red, or a jumble of all these?
Were this not so the signals made would be jumbled together and utterly unintelligible.
The amazing thing was that it was all jumbled up with Molly.
The fervid jumble ended in a near scream.
The transmitter screen lit up with a blurred jumble of print, colors, a muttering of voices, music and noises.
A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
It was as though some really intelligent outside agency had given them the basic idea of a co-ordinate system, and they, not having the intelligence to use it properly, had simply jumbled the whole thing up.
A jumble of thoughts made him waver.
Pink and white, blue and white, and red and white Hyacinths look well when planted together, but a jumble of pinks, blues, and reds is never as pleasing as the same colors would be separately, or where each color is relieved by white.
The end of the fort nearest us is now but a jumble of huge stones and is an excellent place for snipers.
They revolved like windmills in a jumble of arms and legs.
Rather once had adorned, for all was now a jumble of confusion!
There was also a collection of steel traps, a dog sled and a jumbled mass of dog harness.
For the first state had at least been based upon a great tradition and an ordered philosophy of life, but in the last state there was no tradition, no ordered philosophy; only a jumble and a scramble, and a passing of examinations.