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  • The penguins are all turned around now because the currents are topsyturvy and they just follow the signals even if they happen to go right down the drain and bingo just like that you've got a column of confused birds marching up main street looking for an answer to their worst nightmare.

    Small Object With a Face Gone Awry (Revised) 2010

  • The penguins are all turned around now because the currents are topsyturvy and they just follow the signals even if they happen to go right down the drain and bingo just like that you've got a column of confused birds marching up main street looking for an answer to their worst nightmare.

    The Dancing Weather or The Small Truths that are Often Fireflies 2008

  • The penguins are all turned around now because the currents are topsyturvy and they just follow the signals even if they happen to go right down the drain and bingo just like that you've got a column of confused birds marching up main street looking for an answer to their worst nightmare.

    The Dancing Weather or The Small Truths that are Often Fireflies 2008

  • He glanced at the canoe floating topsyturvy beside them.

    Mending Places Denise Hunter 2004

  • Regret and deep chagrin, his world seemed topsyturvy.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses, upside down, arsiversy, topsyturvy, harri bourriquet, with a Yacco haick, hyck gio! handling them very rudely in jumbling and tumbling them to keep them going; for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses, upside down, arsiversy, topsyturvy, harri bourriquet, with a Yacco haick, hyck gio! handling them very rudely in jumbling and tumbling them to keep them going; for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Especially not since the Elvenbane and her wizards had sent everything so topsyturvy, and given the cat-eyes their comeuppance.

    Elvenblood Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • All concepts of estate planning are knocked topsyturvy.

    Some Thoughts on the Carter Report 1967

  • He pointed to a curved bank of brushwood, mostly alder branches, piled together in curious topsyturvy fashion, which formed a dam across the stream.

    Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

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