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"Hotchpotch" Quotes from Famous Books

... the world's history, possible; just as far as they fail is failure written over the American future. The real interest of America for the next century to the student of civilisation will be the development of these attempts, now in their infancy, to create and realise out of this racial hotchpotch, this human chaos, an idea, of the collective commonwealth as the datum of reference for ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... than a compromise between a joke and a smell. There is the whole Yellow Book team, who never succeeded in convincing anybody. The economic basis of authorship had been shaken by the abolition of the three-volume novel. The intellectual basis had been lulled to sleep by that hotchpotch of convention and largeness that we call the Victorian Era. Literature began to be an effort to express the inexpressible, resulting in outraged grammar and many ...

— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West

... dish is— A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo: Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace: All these you eat at Terre's tavern In that one dish ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

Words linked to "Hotchpotch" : stew, mixture, potpourri, motley, mixed bag, smorgasbord, salmagundi, variety, miscellanea, miscellany, oddments, assortment