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  • After a hard day of cracking jokes, pulling pranks, and causing mayhem at school, George and Harold liked to rush to the old tree house in George's backyard.   (source)
    mayhem = confusion and disorder
  • The crowd: mayhem.†   (source)
  • Mornings of mayhem ….†   (source)
  • Though hundreds of fleeing students had been loaded into buses and driven off to safety in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, others, like Chris, had escaped the mayhem on foot, and in some cases it was hours before their whereabouts were confirmed.†   (source)
  • This aquatic mayhem didn't last long, but while it did, the sea bubbled and boiled, fish jumped and jaws worked hard.†   (source)
  • There followed a flurry of introductions, desk-choosing, and general mayhem, during which the Executives watched the children very intently, as if they didn't quite trust them not to bolt from the room or start a brawl.†   (source)
  • While Goodman and his girlfriend were on their way, Williams went around his house, smashing bottles, overturning the big clock in the hall, and creating a scene of general mayhem.†   (source)
  • They bring me back to the world with their sounds of mayhem.†   (source)
  • I feel ready for massacre and mayhem.†   (source)
  • We will wander underneath them and commit mild acts of mayhem.†   (source)
  • Beyond the threshold was absolute mayhem.†   (source)
  • Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.†   (source)
  • It must have been during the initial mayhem, thinks Snowman, that some genius let out the pigoons and the wolvogs.†   (source)
  • Redd strolled through the mayhem of the battle unharmed.†   (source)
  • Lies, who's all thumbs, gets lost in the mayhem.†   (source)
  • With any luck, at least some of the prisoners might escape in the mayhem that ought to result.†   (source)
  • And this is mayhem to the nth degree.†   (source)
  • A large percentage would make it, probably causing mayhem in their revelry.†   (source)
  • It would sow mayhem and anarchy.†   (source)
  • He touched a comparatively sedate quartet of figures painted on the highest balcony, looking down calmly on the mayhem below them.†   (source)
  • It was an undisguised terrorist operation, dedicated to mayhem and murder, especially of us.†   (source)
  • A scene of mayhem replaced the calm that Stanton had seen a little more than an hour before.†   (source)
  • Mayhem reigned until Director-General Davis signaled the orchestra to begin playing the introductory "Columbian March."†   (source)
  • For all these deaths and maimings to amount to something deeper than the violence of the Road Runner cartoon, the violence has to have some meaning beyond mere mayhem.†   (source)
  • Every half hour brought an escalation in the mayhem outside.†   (source)
  • I will never forget the sudden emotional mayhem.†   (source)
  • Sophie Mol inspected the smelly mayhem with clinical detachment.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FORTY MOVIE COMPANY CAUSES MAYHEM IN SCENIC OJAI The latest in a long line of horror movies from Enoch Studios caused traffic mayhem and more than a little confusion in downtown Ojai yesterday.†   (source)
  • Through the mayhem of cheers and relief, Mack could hear Emil's voice, like the repetitious chant of a rosary, whispering again and again, "I am so sorry ….†   (source)
  • Every assignment there—murder, mayhem, ribbon cuttings, courtroom drama, meetings and more mayhem—was an education.†   (source)
  • From Slang Terms Explained: A Parents' Guide, by John R. Coombs (New York: The Lighthouse Press, 1985), p.73: to rip off a Carrie: To cause either violence or destruction; mayhem, confusion; (2) to commit arson (from Carrie White, 1963-1979) From The Shadow Exploded (p.†   (source)
  • AFTER THAT, THE BATTLE WAS MAYHEM.†   (source)
  • The seconds stretch, each as long as an hour as I gaze at the mayhem of the battlefield.†   (source)
  • But my mother would never have understood why, in some small way, the mayhem of Delia's business would appeal to me.†   (source)
  • As a rule, gangs would prove much better at making mayhem than money.†   (source)
  • He also kissed Hannah Pierce on that unforgettable evening of mayhem and murder in Boca Raton.†   (source)
  • She smiled more, they sometimes commented, and even her children occasionally noticed that she took walks after dinner or spent an hour now and then lingering in the tub, ignoring the mayhem around her.†   (source)
  • Cedric knows that the surrounding mayhem is not something he and his mother need to talk much about.†   (source)
  • At first it was mayhem: we bounded in, grabbing wildly as the pigeons took off.†   (source)
  • True, its potential for violence and mayhem had been proved.†   (source)
  • Then, as the deadweight of the trailer shouldered in behind, there was a gouging, ripping mayhem of noise that made the very air vibrate.†   (source)
  • Murder and mayhem are the life and soul of revolution.†   (source)
  • You didn't wait for time to pass and for your creature to start making mayhem.†   (source)
  • Reading Greek mythology had left him, he told me, with a sense of the antiquity of murder and mayhem, but no real explanations.†   (source)
  • Soldiers still lob grenades from inside retreating trucks, but the building is already on fire and the grenades only seem to add noise to the mayhem.†   (source)
  • Organized mayhem.†   (source)
  • The heat and noise and mayhem surrounding the ring had immobilized me and rendered me impotent, with that absurd helplessness of being a spectator to an event beyond my control.†   (source)
  • I quickly ran back toward the mayhem that Alder had caused.†   (source)
  • In other words, there was a sort of lull in the mayhem.†   (source)
  • It is not lost on him that the pistol's primary traits—elegance, stealth, and the potential to produce mayhem—match those of its owner.†   (source)
  • It was a dark and steamy night and it all took place there in the kitchen, mayhem and murder.†   (source)
  • Then, finally, came the cause of all the mayhem and bloodshed: the Palestinian from East Jerusalem who had awakened that morning and decided to kill two people because they were Israeli and Jewish.†   (source)
  • Albert looked them over for a moment and then, after a quick glance toward the crest where Angeline was now lying in a state of peaceful relaxation, he flung himself in among the tired pups, sprawled on his back, and invited mayhem.†   (source)
  • Invariably, lines of boxcars stood waiting there, dun-colored backdrop to blurred, confounding tableaux of cruelty, mayhem and madness.†   (source)
  • Can you think of anything sillier than letting yourself be fired out of a spaceship with nothing but mayhem and sudden death at the other end?†   (source)
  • Sergeant Mayhem places his knife to his neck.   (source)
    mayhem = a name in this story
  • God, Mayhem grits his teeth a lot in these books.   (source)
  • "Spoiler alert: Mayhem survives," I said out loud to him, just in case he could hear me.   (source)
  • If they are, hopefully they'll just hear the conversation and assume this is normal morning mayhem, and not think twice.   (source)
    mayhem = chaotic disorder
  • Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.   (source)
  • Cleaver is drawn to mayhem.   (source)
  • Infinite Mayhem, the ninth sequel to The Price of Dawn, lay atop the table next to his reading lamp, the corner of page 138 turned down.   (source)
    mayhem = a name in this story
  • I liked being alone with poor Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, who—oh, come on, he's not going to survive these seventeen bullet wounds, is he?   (source)
  • And if it can't end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem's platoon.   (source)
  • Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem and Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square.   (source)
  • I'm already on Requiem for Mayhem.   (source)
  • Twenty pages from the end of Midnight Dawns, things started to look pretty bleak for Mayhem when he was shot seventeen times while attempting to rescue a (blond, American) hostage from the Enemy.   (source)
  • I liked Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, even though he didn't have much in the way of a technical personality, but mostly I liked that his adventures kept happening.   (source)
  • It wasn't An Imperial Affliction, but the protagonist, Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem, was vaguely likable despite killing, by my count, no fewer than 118 individuals in 284 pages.   (source)
  • I returned to the book, where Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem was regretting that he had but one life to give for his country, but I kept thinking about that little kid, and how much I liked her.   (source)
  • Isaac fumbled for his controller and then started firing while the bullets rained down on Augustus, who was shot once and then twice but still ran, Augustus shouting, "YOU CAN'T KILL MAX MAYHEM!" and with a final flurry of button combinations, he dove onto the grenade, which detonated beneath him.   (source)
  • Mom drove me directly from school to the bookstore attached to the mall, where I purchased both Midnight Dawns and Requiem for Mayhem, the first two sequels to The Price of Dawn, and then I walked over to the huge food court and bought a Diet Coke.   (source)
  • As Mayhem and Jacks, Isaac and I felt our way forward in the cavern until we bumped into a guy whom we stabbed after getting him to tell us that we were in a Ukrainian prison cave, more than a mile beneath the ground.   (source)
  • CHAPTER TEN — MAYHEM AT THE MINISTRY Mr. Weasley woke them after only a few hours sleep.†   (source)
  • Others who could co-exist without the constant mayhem.†   (source)
  • 'But we've always stopped short of causing real mayhem,' said Fred.†   (source)
  • So you witnessed the mayhem in person ….†   (source)
  • Rita Skeeter was leaning on Hagrid's garden fence, looking in at the mayhem.†   (source)
  • He clapped his hands over his father's head, creating mayhem in the mosquito funnel.†   (source)
  • All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with.†   (source)
  • '— we reckon a bit of mayhem —' said George.†   (source)
  • I can see why in describing these unfortunate events you chose to discard mayhem in favor of antics.†   (source)
  • So they might be a little tired of the fear, pain, and mayhem, but still… "Iggy?"†   (source)
  • Roscoe had seen plenty of mayhem on the roads and had even got used to it, after a fashion.†   (source)
  • The engines soon stalled the Varden's advance, sowing mayhem wherever they aimed.†   (source)
  • I thought we were trying to avoid tears and violence and mayhem.†   (source)
  • And looming above the mayhem, like two living mountains, were Saphira and Thorn.†   (source)
  • From the mayhem around us, it's clear that she's gone through considerable trouble to pull this off.†   (source)
  • I thought we were trying to avoid tears and violence and mayhem.†   (source)
  • After that, I really watched the show, laughing with him as the mayhem got more and more ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Plus a wide variety of Nevia's best tools for killing, stabbing, and mayhem.†   (source)
  • Complete mayhem?†   (source)
  • This is mayhem.†   (source)
  • She recognized him, as one suddenly remembers a dream hours after waking, and the recognition brought her a troubling relief, for if this thing was real… She stood defenseless and unmoving amid the mayhem.†   (source)
  • He was moving through them, blazing a trail of murder and mayhem, devouring one meerkat after another, blood dripping from his mouth, and they, cheek to jowl with a tiger, were jumping up and down on the spot, as if crying, "My turn!†   (source)
  • It was sudden mayhem, me on all fours, retching all over shards of broken porcelain, Madaline saying, "Oh dear.†   (source)
  • And I'm afraid I'll be so preoccupied with the mayhem that I won't beme anymore …. and that I won't ….†   (source)
  • Once the mayhem dies down and she is safely away from the Indians who have hated her and the English who now hate her, she announces that the echo has stopped.†   (source)
  • A few bicycles, a few motorcycles — not a bad choice considering the traffic mayhem that must have lasted for days.†   (source)
  • But it was not long before we began to hear of an outfit called al Qaeda in Iraq, a malicious terrorist group trying to cause mayhem at every conceivable opportunity, led by the deranged Jordanian killer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (now deceased).†   (source)
  • Chaos disturbed her; mayhem was mayhem, even if people were having a good time; bad weather was bad weather, even if no one seemed to mind.†   (source)
  • She did not truly believe the accounts of untethered mayhem, but she knew that some murders would have occurred.†   (source)
  • Wreaked havoc and mayhem.†   (source)
  • Now, you might have noticed that we have been rather quiet on the mayhem front during the Easter holidays?†   (source)
  • It was a day, in her view, that had been invented to create mayhem among the lower classes, a day when they were invited to abuse people of property—and my grandmother's house was always abused on Halloween.†   (source)
  • Forster's later masterpiece, A Passage to India, focuses on other types of mayhem growing from English misbehavior as the rulers of India and from very confused feelings that beset recent arrivals on the subcontinent.†   (source)
  • When they pass through our doors, they have the right to expect unparalleled comfort, unsurpassed service, and mornings free of mayhem.†   (source)
  • Both her husband and Amanda were in favor of creating mayhem with sexual stereotypes, or reversing sexual roles as arduously and as self-consciously as possible—hence, he often wore an apron while shopping; hence, her hair was shorter than his, except on her legs and in her armpits, where she grew it long.†   (source)
  • Typically, the town newspaper, The Gravesend News-Letter, did not editorialize on the event, except to say that a march against mayhem on the nation's highways would be a more significant use of such civilian zeal; as for the academy newspaper, The Grave reported that it was "about time" the school and the town combined forces to demonstrate against the evil war.†   (source)
  • Of course I remembered the calm quartet of men, each with the exquisite face of a seraph, painted into the highest balcony overlooking the swirling mayhem of color.†   (source)
  • The Seekers stood as a mighty shield, and the souls of this world were thrice-over indebted to them: for the safety they had carved out of the mayhem, for the risk of the final death that they faced willingly every day, and for the new bodies they continued to provide.†   (source)
  • The air carried cries and shouts, the sound of screaming, names called on the wind—and there were the cries of demons as well, howls of mayhem and delight, shrieks that pierced the human ear like pain.†   (source)
  • I lost Casey in the blur of perfume and general mayhem, then found her waiting for me by a planter full of ferns.†   (source)
  • Numerous others were either circling the mayhem and flashing their brake lights or trying to squeeze into improbably tiny spaces.†   (source)
  • The wind gusted toward them, carrying with it the screams of dying men and horses, the shivery sound of metal sliding over metal, the clink of swords glancing off helmets, the dull impact of spears on shields, and, underlying it all, a horrible humorless laughter that issued from a multitude of throats and continued without pause throughout the mayhem.†   (source)
  • But it's merely a civilized thing to do, having lunch with an ex-husband in a comradely way: a good coda to all that smashed crockery and mayhem.†   (source)
  • How to reckon with the fact that, unlike some other genocides, the slaughters he had witnessed had been mainly low-tech mayhem, committed mostly with machetes, spears, bows and arrows?†   (source)
  • The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his midforties, is the sheer length of his criminal record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem.†   (source)
  • The major industrial giant that seemed to be behind all the recombinant-DNA experiments; as well as the Re-Evolution Plan, also known as the By-Half Plan; and who knew how many other lunatic plans of mass destruction and mayhem.†   (source)
  • There was no looting, no mayhem.†   (source)
  • They carried clublike weapons and, judging from the poor dead miner with the arrow sticking out of his back, they wouldn't hesitate to use them for whatever mayhem they thought fit.†   (source)
  • Since the mid-1990s, the school has sunk from the worst in the District 'to a new low standard of mayhem.†   (source)
  • Wingfield that the violence and mayhem at Ballou have been rising steadily, and Dr. Jones looks weary.†   (source)
  • He had left Columbia believing that misery had been not the sole cause of the mayhem, but a primary cause, a precondition too often neglected by scholars: little or no education for most and, for those who did get it, lessons in brutality; toil and deprivation, hunger and disease and untimely death, including rampant infant mortality, which justified all-but-perpetual pregnancy for women until menopause.†   (source)
  • When the weather warms and the streets start to fill with kids cutting school and meeting peers who are long beyond formal schooling, the season of mayhem begins in Southeast.†   (source)
  • Then he sweeps through a cursory overview of guns found in lociiers and concealed knives as he studies Cedric's face, searching, it seems, for a clue about whether he's looking at a black college student who knows of such mayhem or someone, like almost everyone else, who's only heard about it.†   (source)
  • And tired or not, he looked entirely capable of further mayhem, should the need arise.†   (source)
  • In fact, none of the watchers seemed at all bothered by the mayhem taking place on the floor at our feet.†   (source)
  • As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence…†   (source)
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