In confusion; neither head nor tail. [ Proverb ]

With sonorous notes
Of every tone, mix'd in confusion sweet,
Our forest rings. [ Carlos Wilcox ]

Seven may be company, but nine are confusion. [ Proverb ]

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. [ Congreve ]

Sorrow causes more absence of mind and confusion than so-called levity. [ Richter ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. [ Colton ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas. [ Macaulay ]

Samuel Gardner was blind in one eye and in a moment of confusion he stepped out of a receiving and discharging door in one of the warehouses into the ineffable glories of the celestial sphere. [ Epitaph ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. [ Colton ]

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]

Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]