1 She would forgive him anything if he got them out of this mess.
2 The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
3 "This is a fine mess," thought Scarlett dejectedly.
4 He had already made a perfect mess on the hearth rug but they did not seem to have noticed it.
5 It all seemed a terrible mess now and she half heartedly wished she had said nothing about it.
6 Some of Rhett's taunting words of contempt came back to her and she wondered if indeed Ashley had played the manly part in this mess.
7 She felt that she would stifle if she stayed in Atlanta another day, with her tired mind forcing itself round and round the deeply worn circle of futile thoughts about the mess she was in.
8 Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed down to the floor for a centrepiece.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. 9 They were the Socialists; and it was a devil of a mess, said "Bush" Harper.
10 That was a pretty mess, indeed.
11 An these here hull woods is a reg'lar mess.
12 If a herd of buffaloes had passed along there could not be a greater mess.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 13 Mr. Harthouse, I am in a horrible mess.
14 Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, and ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.
15 I don't like to think too much about you, in my head, that only makes a mess of us both.