Citations:topsy-turvying

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English citations of topsy-turvying

  1. [Gerund use.]
    • 1865, Thomas Carlyle, “Friedrich in Thüringen, His World of Enemies All Come”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume V, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XVIII, page 176:
      Yes, if I were Voltaire and a private man, I could with much composure leave Fortune to her whirlings and her plungings; to me, contented with the needful, her mad caprices and sudden topsy-turvyings would be amusing rather than tremendous.
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