Mingle Mangle

I hope you like today's shot, with its mingle-mangle of old stones and inconsistent patterns. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)

The mingle-mangle of scarcely connected incidents which did duty with Greene for a plot, the irrepressible by-play with which ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)

Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one? ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

There had been no half measures at Northampton, for the Puritans had a loathing of what they called a "mingle-mangle." ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

So that the _Essay_ is written with a stimulating mingle-mangle of attraction and reluctance, of advocacy and admission. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

We have in it, indeed, got entirely out of the pure romance; but we have also got out of the _fatrasie_ -- the mingle-mangle of story, jargon, nonsense, and what not, -- out of the mere tale of adventure, out of the mere tale of _grivoiserie_. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

"Have done with such mingle-mangle talk," ordered Mr. Meredith, fretfully. ❋ Paul Leicester Ford (1883)

Till I had made such a mingle-mangle upon their nose, ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

America, or the mingle-mangle which the negroes have made with French and ❋ Robert Southey (1808)

In his eyes Anglicanism was “a bastard religion,” “a mingle-mangle now commanded in your kirks.” ❋ Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (1905)

Anglicanism was "a bastard religion," "a mingle-mangle now commanded in your kirks." ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

I pray you make no mingle-mangle of things that do so differ in themselves, though 'tis true they come all of one source -- the union and the unity of Christ and the believer. " ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)