"Mix-up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... get into some bad mix-up, poor fellow?" If there had been anything like that, no wonder it broke her up ...
— T. Tembarom • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... know what he was talking about, but surmised that he had gotten into a mix-up with the quartermaster sergeant. ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... we ever met, and lucky it will probably be for me if we never meet again; for if Jim still lives and there is aught in this story he sees occasion to take exception to, I am sure to be due for a mix-up I can ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson
... time if we give ourselves a minute's rest," he panted. "When we start in again we'll have our second wind. They haven't got out of that mix-up yet. Besides, they'll come on more cautiously now. They won't know how many ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... arrive to-day from Vermont for a long visit. We haven't seen her since she was six years old, but I took a chance on recognizing her. And then there was the name! How could I guess there would be two Bettys looking for two Uncle Dicks! Don't be mad, Betty; you can see a mix-up like that wouldn't happen twice in a ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson
... as the experiences were related, and when Larry finished the account of his mix-up ...
— Comrades of the Saddle - The Young Rough Riders of the Plains • Frank V. Webster
... little what you call a mix-up might not come amiss! That gives one an appetite; that permits one to perspire; that does good to everybody and makes one sleep soundly! Shall we, as you ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... you're really much of a friend to him, I don't believe you sit on a high seat and judge him. Judging, and all that, haven't much part in it. And it seems to me that you've got yourself into a pretty bad mix-up, Crailey." ...
— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington
... in the least what the whole thing was about, but seeing a way out of the present mix-up, promptly ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... seemed as if I remember Warren and Pearson in some sort of mix-up. Some.... Humph! ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
... derivation, therefore, I am a pretty fair illustration of the mix-up of bloods which seems destined to bring forth some new and yet undecipherable combination on the North American continent. One-half Irish, one-fourth English, and a good deal more than "a trace" of French, would appear to be the showing ...
— From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life • Captain A. T. Mahan
... part. Then, too, you went to his house for this business, and people will say that that, too, looks bad. You have destroyed the invitation he sent you, and so you have nothing to show that you didn't go to his house, as he says you did, without invitation, in order to extort a bribe. It's a bad mix-up, but for you to go into politics would only make it worse. We must find another way out. Keep perfectly still, and leave the matter to me. I'll plan something." Then suddenly a thought flashed into Captain Will ...
— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston
... half of the dragon got lost, and went groping wildly for the front half. Somehow or other, it ran into the crowd on the corner, and there was a mix-up in which three dollars worth of eggs ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish
... There has been some mix-up somewhere. I have an idea, but I won't spring it now. ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View - Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand • Laura Lee Hope
... death. Why, once a man down in Glen City was driving a big flock along when around a turn in the road came a motor-truck. The sheep got scared and the front ones whisked straight about. That started others. Soon there was a grand mix-up—sheep all panic-stricken and tramping over each other. The owner lost half his herd. Now you see why we have to ...
— The Story of Wool • Sara Ware Bassett
... hadn't guessed then? And yet who could wonder, such a terrible, frightful mix-up as it all became! You see," the old gentleman hurried on, lowering his gaze, yet already recovering something of his normal composure, "you had scarcely started before I—I became strangely uneasy over the—seriousness of ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... the skull of the sailor who had given it by knocking him over the head with an iron belaying-pin, he began to retreat along the deck. Chips had planted his knife in Andrews's thigh, and had cut Dalton and Journegan badly in the mix-up. ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... only the close quarters which made it bad, for I am used to fighting them." She was interrupted by a yapping and caterwauling in the doorway, and sprang on the bed, her face white with terror, as a small terrier and the menagerie cat rolled into the room in a clawing, biting mix-up. The terrier was raising a litter of puppies in the next room, and the cat had transformed the space back of Morelli's bed into a feline nursery, and a meeting of the two anxious mothers in the hall had led to trouble. Madam Morelli always ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe
... the trail and opened the cry—trail which the headlong twins had so witlessly overrun—these older dogs were on it hot; trail of the Gilmores and "Harriet." Somewhere on that trail the captain's son would show up, and when the game should be treed they would be able, in the general mix-up, to "go and see Hugh" ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... said, "there was no other place. Even if the Grand had been open, I gather it's hardly fit.... Of course there's been the most awful mix-up. Trust Spain for that. The Post Office knew they couldn't deliver the wire. Instead of telling somebody, or communicating with Pau, they let it lie in the office till this afternoon. Then they took it to the mayor. Of course he nearly died. ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... managed to say in answer to her query. "But it is rather a strange mix-up all around, and I confess I fail to comprehend its full meaning. It is hardly likely your friends will show up to-night, and by morning perhaps we can decide what is best to do. Let me ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... was God's mercy that they all went astray among so many of our ships. The whole business lasted only a minute and a half. I know, because one of those Easterners from somewhere up in Maine coolly timed the mix-up with his stop-watch. But believe me, it added more than that time to my life. The second attack occurred next morning. Every living soul on the transports had been thrilled by the news of the night's events, ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry
... of one of the girls, none other than Frank Haley, and Allen as the brother of the other girl, who also demanded satisfaction, and the mix-up in ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... had cause," blurted Lyveden. "It was a mistake, of course. But you couldn't know that. And I—I've nothing to forgive, dear. I've never thought ill of you—never once. I can't pretend I wasn't shaken, but I always knew there was some mix-up." ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... He rides well. It's the walking at a high altitude that does him up. Furthermore, Cliff may turn up here, and I don't want another mix-up." ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... the visit to St. Pierre, the purchase of the bait, Pete Ellinwood's fight, the general mix-up, and the blow on the head that had finished him. ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams
... mix-up of parcheesi, halma, and some others; to which were added some original rules out of Sinclair's own head. Patty and Bob were partners against the other two, and soon the quartette were deeply ...
— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells
... me at the same time. Now there is my mother dead! Corpse, wedding, christening all in a short time, one on the top of the other. What a wonderful mix-up [mischmasch]![588] ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster
... leading bearers were all but trampled on by the recklessly driven horses of careless drivers. Both times the mix-up delayed them. ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White
... attention. Most of the remainder tried to be bold and help. They reached out the hand of assistance toward the halter rope; the astonished animal promptly snorted, tried to turn around, cannoned against the next in line. Then there was a mix-up. Two tall clean-cut well-bred looking girls of our slim patrician type offered us material assistance. They seemed to understand horses, and got out of the way in the proper manner, did just the right thing, and made sensible suggestions. I ...
— The Mountains • Stewart Edward White
... elope from Chicago to go to London traveling as brother and sister. They are shipwrecked and a strange mix-up occurs on account ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... Pasig River, usually broad and turbulent, was now nothing better than a muddy, shallow creek, winding and treacherous to the last degree. As night came on the expedition found itself still in the stream and many miles from the lake, and here cascos and launches ran aground and a general mix-up ensued. ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer
... Society was indulgent, yes, but an insolent and undeveloped little girl like Billy could not snap her fingers at the law without suffering the full penalty. Rachael would suffer, too. Florence and her girls would suffer, and Clarence—well, Clarence would not bear it. "What an awful mix-up it is!" Rachael thought wearily. "And what a sickening, tiresome place this ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris
... "In case of a mix-up," thought he, "there couldn't be a better place for ambushing these infernal cannibals—for mowing them down, wholesale—for sending them skyhooting ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... and they ain't. They're drilled an' in companies. But they can arrest any one they've a mind to, and their officers can try and sentence folks. They don't play no favorites either. Soon as they hear of this mix-up between the Crees and the Blackfeet they'll be right over askin' whyfors, and if they find who gave 'em the booze some one will be up to the neck in trouble and squawkin' ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine
... know the train ahead of ours broke down and we hooked fast to some of the cars. When this was done a lot of new passengers got in our cars, and there was something of a mix-up. I saw the fellow go into one of the cars from the other train, and that's the last ...
— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield
... along from looking at two or three good churches," broke in the Tuttle person, "when I seen Sour-dough here having a kind of a mix-up with this man because of him insisting he must ride a kangaroo or something on a merry-go-round, and wanting Sour-dough to ride an ostrich with him, and then when we got him quieted down a little, nothing ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson |
