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In the first place, there is the spirit of topsy-turvydom, which is a notable, an outstanding thing in his works and which perhaps started with his Palace of Truth, in which he made the, characters speak the truth willy nilly! '
Gilbert and Sullivan 1932
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Nepal: Polity for Peace yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Nepal: Polity for Peace'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The article deals with the political dilemmas of ongoing peace and constitution building process of Nepal and it provides possible ways out of the topsy-turvydom.
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Nepal and it provides possible ways out of the topsy-turvydom.
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John Adams Race, who had hitherto known only miracles of science, never found himself able in after-years to describe the topsy-turvydom of the next few days.
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There must have been something in that topsy-turvydom to take the fancy of that darkly fanciful man.
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But this new spiritual dread was a more awful thing than had been the mere spiritual topsy-turvydom symbolised by the paralytic who pursued him.
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003
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John Adams Race, who had hitherto known only miracles of science, never found himself able in after-years to describe the topsy-turvydom of the next few days.
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For these two men on the tower were left alone with the most terrible aspect of Gothic; the monstrous foreshortening and disproportion, the dizzy perspectives, the glimpses of great things small and small things great; a topsy-turvydom of stone in the mid-air.
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For these two men on the tower were left alone with the most terrible aspect of Gothic; the monstrous foreshortening and disproportion, the dizzy perspectives, the glimpses of great things small and small things great; a topsy-turvydom of stone in the mid-air.
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There must have been something in that topsy-turvydom to take the fancy of that darkly fanciful man.
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