But this was merely a blind, for other considerations had led to Mother Toulouche renting this shop on the Isle of the City, in opening on the quay of the Clock, a quay but little frequented, her wretched jumblestore of odds and ends.
He stammered out a sort of miscellaneous and irrelevant jumble of words, but fortunately containing nothing about Africa.
A jumble of discords of sound, if reproduced on a music roll, would present a chaotic jumble of perforations.
A few seconds later, Thane heard a jumble of voices.
Before the next session, this chaos must necessarily take some form, either by a new jumbleof its own atoms, or by mixing them with the more efficient ones of the opposition.
The town itself is flung down a steep hill, at the mouth of a verdurous gorge; and lies pitched so far as the very waterside, a picturesque jumble of wall and roof.
Then shouting with laughter one and all They pushed him on to the Judgment Hall; Stood by him; swarmed to the daïs steps, A jumble of gleeful eyes and lips.
The minister's talk seemed no more than a meaningless jumbleof words out of which he got but one thought.
There is a great, false baroque facade to a church, up a wavering vast mass of steps: and at the side a wonderful jumble of roundnesses with a jumble of round tiled roofs, peaked in the centre.
That fiery jumble was an enchanting thing to look at, and we stayed out the performance; one cannot have such a show as that twice in a lifetime.
Two fields away Bestwood began, with a jumble of roofs and red house-ends, out of which rose the church tower and the spire of the Congregational chapel.
Below was a jumble of hills and tiny villages--Matlock, Ambergate, Stoney Middleton.
As far as the eye could see, there stretched a jumble of masts and yards, criss-crossing in all directions.
The drift, a tangledjumble of small mountain wood, had caught and preserved seven of their eight tins of gasoline.
The aeroplanes being given the proper depression, the Cibola shot earthward and then, the propeller coming to a pause, floated gently along above the jumble of rocks.
Even his dreams were a jumbleof plows and personal pronouns, of mathematical problems and social proprieties.
What do they mean by sending me this jumbleof stuff?
Finding a grassy spot in the shadow of the dock, he sat puzzling over that jumble of figures and signs which he felt sure was meant to convey an important message to him, but which in reality meant nothing to him.
Some of Pant's doings," he grumbled as with wrinkled brow he studied the miscellaneous jumble of figures, question marks and trade signs.
It was Jan who first broke into a smothered jumble of thanks, expostulations, and solemn vows.
On both sides, a jumble of rent mountains; upheavals of beautiful knolls, that would themselves be mountains elsewhere, in the center of vast basins and deep valleys.
A negro waiter had something to say, and she gathered from a jumble of Italian and Arabic that a native wished to see the Signora Haxton.
The horse tried to follow its master, and Royson found distraction for a jumble of incoherent thoughts in the need there was to restrain its fretfulness.
That two different charges should be brought at the same time, the one by a Member of the Legislative, for not doing a certain thing, and the other by the Attorney General for doing it, is a strange jumble of contradictions.
It is a mere jumble of mythical material, distinct and conflicting versions of the same narrative being often dovetailed into one another in the most clumsy fashion.
The founders of both were ignorant women, and their doctrines are a mere jumble of conflicting ideas borrowed from various sources, and inspired by no great central thought.
The motley jumble of coins in use were rated in Halifax currency, a mere money of account or bookkeeping standard, with no actual coins to correspond, adapted to both English and United States currency systems.
The upper half of the vessel was still intact, the lower half a jumble of sharply-cut fragments.
