pellmell

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Dorsenne knew all that, and he knew, too, for what reasons he found almost empty at that time of the year the hall so animated during the entire winter, the hall through which he had seen pass a veritable carnival of visitors: great lords, artists, political men, Russians and Austrians, English and French--pellmell.

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  • But Phil pulled him down before his presence was discovered by the sheriff The last they saw of Barker he was pushing after his dogs, pellmell, doubtless in the belief that he would get on the track of Pete again when they arrived at the palmetto tree Do you really suppose that what he says is true, and Pete's a regular pirate?" —  Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat
  • With a kind of breathless intensity he strives to utter himself; the thoughts crowd on him pellmell: for very multitude of things to say, he can get nothing said. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • The drums rolled the recall and the English escaped pellmell, the French hooting with derision at the top of the banks, the English yelling back strong oaths for the enemy to come out of its rat hole and fight like men. —  Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
  • "The school's on fire But when they came rushing toward her, pellmell, she seemed to remember what she ought to do Illustration: They came rushing toward her, pellmell You can't come in," she told them, as they gathered at the bottom of the porch steps. —  Sunny Boy and His Playmates
  • They were soon overtaken; the promiscuous throng were pressed together by the contracting sides of the valley, and away they went, pellmell, hurry-skurry, wild buffalo, wild horse, wild huntsman, with clang and clatter, and whoop and halloo, that made the forests ring 12. —  McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
 

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