"Mix up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... satisfactory to feel one is of the best people. And I'm sure you'd not care to have me mix up with all sorts, as ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
... are so near," declared Letitia, amiable and seraphic once more. "Somehow or other, I invariably mix up Norway and Sweden and Denmark. I know I shall always look upon Gerda as an Ibsen girl, who has come here to 'live her life,' or 'work out her inheritance.' Perhaps, dear, she has some interesting ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) • Various
... sympathy, because he seemed to be in the same fix as I was once. But then he happened to touch old wounds—that book, you know, and "the idiot"—and I was seized with a wish to pick him to pieces, and to mix up these so thoroughly that they couldn't be put together again—and I succeeded, thanks to the painstaking way in which you had done the work of preparation. Then I had to deal with you. For you were the spring ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg
... wife parting. Besides, what will you do with the son, after all his pursuits and adventures? Even quietly leave him to take guinea-and-a-half lodgings with mamma in Leghorn! O impotent and pacific measures!... I am certain that you must mix up some strong ingredients of distress to give a savour to your pottage. I still think that you may, and must, graft the story of Savage upon Defoe. Your hero must kill a man or do some thing. Can't you bring him to the gallows ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas
... the Princess," Dominey repeated irritably. "Really, my friend, I cannot understand your point of view in this matter. You could not expect me to mix up a secret honeymoon with my ...
— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim
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