They were piled up higgledy-piggledy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I was born, and all the rest followed higgledy-piggledy. From Wordnik.com. [Tag, You’re It!] Reference
“You mean everything shoved in higgledy-piggledy like that?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
For a while I hovered above the towns higgledy-piggledy houses. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan] Reference
'I'm afraid everything's a bit higgledy-piggledy tonight, Alan,' she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
There were tools everywhere, lying higgledy-piggledy in piles on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Boxes, chests, packages of all kinds were there, flung in higgledy-piggledy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain of Adventure]
I just mixed anything together and popped it down higgledy-piggledy style, as. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
Your room is a little higgledy-piggledy and could use a bit of tailored neatness. From Wordnik.com. [It] Reference
Safwan's houses, placed higgledy-piggledy, were built of tumbling-down mud brick. From Wordnik.com. [The Backside of War] Reference
They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
Miranda's higgledy-piggledy castle of fun is built on instinct rather than theory. From Wordnik.com. [Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law] Reference
But those who liked the higgledy-piggledy and grimy nature of the baths need not fear. From Wordnik.com. [Bath cleansing brings Romans back to life] Reference
A higgledy-piggledy want of intelligence acquired by young misses at boarding-schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Trestles and benches had been dragged clear and left higgledy-piggledy against the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Foundling by D Cornish] Reference
Only glimpses of a higgledy-piggledy of assorted wares were to be caught behind the panes. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
The room was half dismantled, with piles of cartons lying higgledy-piggledy on every surface. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
So the last few armfuls were flung higgledy-piggledy into the chest, and the lid was shut down. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Strange Bundle]
On one corner of the table some one has apparently breakfasted in rather higgledy-piggledy fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
Funny numbers -- some too high, some too low -- are embedded higgledy-piggledy throughout the system. From Wordnik.com. [Why China Cooks The Books] Reference
He used a sadly corrupt version of Latin, admixed higgledy-piggledy with a sprinkling of other tongues. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
I noticed a hill in Wallonia somewhere with different-sized houses placed higgledy-piggledy all over it. From Wordnik.com. [Luxembourg « The expat numbat: from AU to NL] Reference
The old walls hugged the wide, winding river and zigzagged around the higgledy-piggledy clumps of houses. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Magyk by Angie Sage] Reference
His cupboard door was closed, but boxes stood higgledy-piggledy on his carpet, their contents stirred up. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
One word that I thought would compliment your list is ‘higgledy-piggledy’ meaning careless and untidy. From Wordnik.com. [Build Blog » A Vocabulary List for Architects Who Want to Get Things Built] Reference
The trees were spread higgledy-piggledy over the untamed ground, here dominated by oaks, there by larches. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
Where to buy I like the higgledy-piggledy old town between the beaches, with its old cottages and town houses. From Wordnik.com. [Let's move to Teignmouth, Devon] Reference
But it's not as though they're going to go out and start tossing the things about higgledy-piggledy, are they?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
He stood up when the chest was empty and a huge pile of documents lay higgledy-piggledy on the trampled grass. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way. From Wordnik.com. [50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
The baker-man tumbled into the watering-trough, and all the rest rushed higgledy-piggledy into the houses and stores. From Wordnik.com. [Seven O'Clock Stories] Reference
On a bed of withered spruce boughs, strewn higgledy-piggledy upon the camp-floor -- mother earth -- lay the form of a man. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Lithographs, paintings and plans chart the higgledy-piggledy development of one of Europe's best-loved art-treasure troves. From Wordnik.com. [THE MUSEUM WARS] Reference
"Well, we'd have finished sooner if we'd just thrown everything higgledy-piggledy into drawers, like you have, " said Peggy. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Moon Castle]
Try spelling ‘pedantic’, ‘congruent’, ‘kejadah’, ‘higgledy-piggledy’ or ‘vaginitis’ with these alphabets. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
For once the rain stops and lying in the Jacuzzi beneath jasmine, higgledy-piggledy houses hidden by begonias feels Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [Very Tasty, Very Brizzle] Reference
There were letters, an appointments diary and a small notebook, all thrown higgledy-piggledy into a drawer in Jo Benton's bedside table. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
Quite as good as Mr Bott's, when he said in the House the other night that the Government kept their accounts in a higgledy-piggledy way. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
In the previous post I ran through the precedents of the story, but sticking all of those ideas together higgledy-piggledy would be a mess. From Wordnik.com. [The Primordial Stew Of Imagination, Part 2 « The Graveyard] Reference
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