topsy-turvied

I wish, since it is too late, and my lot determined, that I had not had this letter, nor heard him take my part to that vile woman; for then I should have blessed myself in having escaped so happily his designing arts upon my virtue: but now my poor mind is all topsy-turvied, and I have made an escape to be more a prisoner.

Pamela 2006

Even the beautiful legend of the prodigal son returning home to his parents could not retain its value when it was topsy-turvied by the Thropps.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Again play him lawlessly, with his accentual life topsy-turvied, and he is no longer Chopin -- his caricature only.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

Russian virtuoso was right: his strength was not equal to the task, and so, imitating Chopin, he topsy-turvied the shading.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

Schumann, born mentally sick, a man with the germs of insanity, a pathological case, a literary man turned composer -- Schumann, I say, topsy-turvied all the newly born and, without knowing it, diverted for the time music from its true current.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890

Here the situation is topsy-turvied in the most curious fashion, for it is the character of marriage that is desiderated in the absence thereof, and in a country where that character itself is scoffed at.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Not so Camille: it is but one week, and all is so topsy-turvied; angel Wife left weeping; love, riches, Revolutionary fame, left all at the Prison-gate; carnivorous

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

I wish, since it is too late, and my lot determined, that I had not had this letter, nor heard him take my part to that vile woman; for then I should have blessed myself in having escaped so happily his designing arts upon my virtue: but now my poor mind is all topsy-turvied, and I have made an escape to be more a prisoner.

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

Before the revolution had topsy-turvied the nation’s mind and soul, young men and women knew the sacraments, and church was a forum for vetting another family’s respectability.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006

Before the revolution had topsy-turvied the nation’s mind and soul, young men and women knew the sacraments, and church was a forum for vetting another family’s respectability.

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006