But I don't suppose the denial had the smallest effect upon Mr. KING, who probably went off and dined heartily on a magnum of mare's-nest soup. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference
Company found to their cost, that it was they who were burying their treasure, instead of Captain Kidd who had buried his; so, having realized their mare's-nest, they gave it up. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Ten men and women, eight of them working on new projects that had been started since young van Riebeek had started after this mare's-nest of his, all of them diverted from serious planned research. From Wordnik.com. [The Fuzzy Papers]
Generalizations are commonly unsafe in proportion as they are tempting; and this, together with its pretty twin-brother about Cavaliers and Roundheads, would seem to have been hatched from the same egg and in the same mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
Yet suppose, after all, I had found a mare's-nest!. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
It looked as if he had stumbled into a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
"It's no mare's-nest," I said; "come and have a look at it.". From Wordnik.com. [Whose Body]
Besançon; so that my friend the driver had sent me to a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference
Mr. Dunster, as a matter of fact, turned out to be rather a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanished Messenger] Reference
I do not come before you to-night with either a rhapsody or a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
I had not been working myself up over a mare's-nest as I followed him below. From Wordnik.com. [In the Sargasso Sea A Novel] Reference
Jackson's voice, quavering with excitement, said, "I've run into a mare's-nest up here.". From Wordnik.com. [The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece]
The machine that was growing in a mare's-nest on the second floor began to evolve faster. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth R] Reference
"Seems to me a mare's-nest," said the Sergeant to me dryly, as he cocked his eye and pointed down at the footprints. From Wordnik.com. [Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer] Reference
"I tell you what," said the lieutenant; "we shall all be busy getting up and mounting those guns, so I shall set you to find your mare's-nest.". From Wordnik.com. [Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea] Reference
The Glacière of Vaise had proved, as has been seen, to be a mare's-nest; and yet, after all, it produced a foal; for while I was endeavouring to overcome the evening heat of Besançon in a. From Wordnik.com. [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference
There was Doctor Wells, the local physician, who had joked with her about moving into the Bat's home territory -- He seemed an intelligent man -- but she knew him only slightly -- she couldn't call a busy Doctor away from his patients to investigate something which might only prove to be a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bat] Reference
Mr. Windham, indeed, who was a sophist, but not a logician, charged him with having found "a mare's-nest;" but it is not to be doubted that Mr. Tooke's etymologies will stand the test, and last longer than Mr. Windham's ingenious derivation of the practice of bull-baiting from the principles of humanity!. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
It has its weekly "Ephemerides," in which every new pseudo-scientific mare's-nest is hailed and belauded with the unconscious unfairness of ignorance; and an army of "reconcilers," enlisted in its service, whose business seems to be to mix the black of dogma and the white of science into the neutral tint of what they call liberal theology. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays] Reference
When he had kicked his heels in an antechamber upward of an hour, he was received, affably enough, by the head of the department, a smug, open-faced gentleman whose mood was largely preoccupied with illusions of grandeur, who was, in short, interested far more in considering how splendid it was to be himself than in hearing about any mare's-nest of a German U-boat base on the south shore of Martha's Vineyard. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
He isn't well, and he's put out about this mare's-nest hunt. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War] Reference
"It looks another mare's-nest," I replied. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
"Yes, I suppose it is a mare's-nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War] Reference
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