His face was perplexed and uncomfortable; however, it got ease after a few puffs of pale returns and a welcome minute of memory of the bouquet of those sixes.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
I told you when I saw him, before he was struck down, how he seemed to be all at sixes and sevens with himself-everything wrong-worried, harassed, and sick of life, though he would hardly explain anything; he was always too proud to ask for pity.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Everything is at sixes and sevens.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer