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higglety-pigglety

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  • Culled from Fields' stints at Paramount and Universal, the import box arranges its contents in non-chronologic, even higglety-pigglety order, most of them doubled-up on single discs while IT'S A GIFT and another title are stand-alones.

    Archive 2008-01-27 2008

  • Culled from Fields' stints at Paramount and Universal, the import box arranges its contents in non-chronologic, even higglety-pigglety order, most of them doubled-up on single discs while IT'S A GIFT and another title are stand-alones.

    A Bigger Box o' Fields 2008

  • Willy-nilly, even higglety-pigglety and helter-skelter, these are what the featherless biped is after.

    The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

  • Apparently he did not, and had built the apartment on the hit-or-miss, higglety-pigglety pattern, with unexpected alcoves cut into the walls and closets and chimneys built out from them.

    The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "I can't particularize no how about the frock, ma'am," said she, "but, just as you was racin 'out higglety-pigglety, ma'am, missis bid me throw your old cloak and her wadded calash over you, to s'cure you from the djews, ma'am."

    Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838

  • And, my desire not to draw Thomas into anything normative or against his wishes to the contrary... the business and marketing side of my brain tells me that if you go off higglety-pigglety, pulling features from *this* virtual(?) world(?) and that 3rd space, and this magic circle and that transformative, hoozeewhatsis experience... you'll probably either come away with a glom of nothing very interesting that has been done 10 times before, or something pretty confusing.

    My space or yours? 2006

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