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Naturally, there are associations with less idealistic entertainment – the pool, the beach, the helterskelter and the bouncy castle.
Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception; Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World Laura Cummings 2010
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War comes on: into the army helterskelter: same fellows used to.
Ulysses 2003
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The packages and boxes were lying helterskelter on the bed and floor.
Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983
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A dog barked and then was still, padding hungrily through the rubbish strewn helterskelter across an alley somewhere ahead of them.
beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980
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The most convenient method of forming it is to cut down trees and allow them to lie helterskelter.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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A panic ensued among the group, and in an instant they disappeared helterskelter into their houses.
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A panic ensued among the group, and in an instant they disappeared helterskelter into their houses.
Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul. § 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection 1922
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J. Walker and Charles Sumner not more so - and it was worth while to let them have the floor and to hear them talk; Lodge, cool and wary as a politician should be; Hay, helterskelter, the real man of the world crossed on a Western stock; and Adams, something of a litératteur, a statesman and a cynic.
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But I do know that the entire book developed, howsoever helterskelter, and after fumbling in no matter how many blind alleys, from that first memorandum about the troubling window of Ageus.
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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War comes on: into the army helterskelter: same fellows used to.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word helterskelter
"And they all ran down the strand to see over the houses and the church, helterskelter, Edy with the pushcar with baby Boardman in it and Cissy holding Tommy and Jacky by the hand so they wouldn't fall running."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13
January 14, 2007