I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns. From Wordnik.com. [pente - French Word-A-Day] Reference
The mingle-mangle of scarcely connected incidents which did duty with Greene for a plot, the irrepressible by-play with which. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
The Tempest is, as it were, Shakespeare's affirmation, in answer to his critics, that his plays choose to be what John Lyly called a 'mingle-mangle', mixing clowns and kings, fairies and mortals, the divine and the human. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Till I had made such a mingle-mangle upon their nose. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
America, or the mingle-mangle which the negroes have made with French and. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society] Reference
Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
There had been no half measures at Northampton, for the Puritans had a loathing of what they called a "mingle-mangle.". From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
When the patriotic Germans began to wake up to a consciousness of the enormous encroachments which foreign languages, the Latin and French above all, had made on their native tongue, the lodgements which they had therein effected, and the danger which threatened it, namely, that it should cease to be German at all, but only a mingle-mangle, a variegated patchwork of many languages, without any unity or inner coherence at all, various societies were instituted among them, at the beginning and during the course of the seventeenth century, for the recovering of what was lost of their own, for the expelling of that which had intruded from abroad; and these with excellent effect. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
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