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  • And in the centre of the melee stood a five-metre-tall hovercage, floating on a cushion of air.†   (source)
  • If other white students joined the melee to rescue the other side, we'd have a brawl.†   (source)
  • Out in the road it was a melee of shoving, strangers touching and shoving at me.†   (source)
  • The melee broke up the rhythm of the attack and, by the time the French had regained their initiative, Henry's own men-at-arms had braced to hold them at pike length while Kassad and several thousand other archers poured volley fire into the massed French infantry at close range.†   (source)
  • I rushed up to the melee and tried to pull apart a couple of students on the ground.†   (source)
  • Four snake-headed giants had retrieved it and were carrying it slowly but steadily through the melee.†   (source)
  • A huge wolf had broken away from the melee and was racing toward her, ears flattened to its narrow head.†   (source)
  • Beneath them on the floor of the cave swirled a melee of struggling figures.†   (source)
  • He found Chief O'Rourke standing with a megaphone in the middle of the melee.†   (source)
  • I turn to look for her and spot Tristas cutting through the melee, coming straight for me.†   (source)
  • The roadway was full of people, and the din of voices and the melee of horses rendered unmanageable by the falling embers was terrible.†   (source)
  • Caius slithered into the center of the gray melee, and the shocking squealing sound exploded into a startling upward shower of sparks and tongues of flame.†   (source)
  • Sugar nearly trampled Newt, trying to get out of the melee.†   (source)
  • If the American's eventual victory didn't begin to redeem Matt's own sulky youth, at least it edged the game out of the private migraine of abnormal introversion and into the mingled thing out there, the everyday melee of competing states and material forces.†   (source)
  • The screen got cracked in the melee, but the device still works.†   (source)
  • It was violently disturbing to me even in that melee that I didn't know whether I could lose consciousness.†   (source)
  • He emerged from the melee with the scruff of a neck in each hand — Hungry Joe's neck and the cat's.†   (source)
  • Millard had been grazed by a bullet during our melee at the lighthouse the previous night, and though his recovery so far was remarkable, it was far from complete.†   (source)
  • For a long time I was held hypnotized by the thundering herd, then with a cry of resolution exploding from my throat I rushed into the melee.†   (source)
  • I hadn't heard the Voice since the melee in the desert.†   (source)
  • The melee raged on just a few feet away, and as he reached to grab her a blunt object of some variety struck him in the back of his head.†   (source)
  • I played one group against the other, slipping in and throwing a punch then stepping out of range while pushing the others into the melee to take the blows blindly aimed at me.†   (source)
  • With the spring of a deer, he leaped from his saddle, threw the reins of his bridle into the hands of his servant, and rushed into the thickest of the melee, with an iron grip seized two tall, brawny, athletic, savage-looking riflemen by the throat, keeping them at arm's length, alternating shaking and talking to them.†   (source)
  • There was a piercing scream overriding the surrounding melee.†   (source)
  • I realize now this must have been staged, but at the time the commotion that arose at the front of the building drove Sukeena and me to the rear, in hopes of escaping the melee.†   (source)
  • Attolia scanned the melee for Eugenides but couldn't find him again.†   (source)
  • We probably used way too much energy too early in dealing with this melee.†   (source)
  • A furious melee was taking place on the beaches below as the Harbor Guard held the Enemy back from the cliff stairs that would bring them up to the main campus.†   (source)
  • And the melee was on.†   (source)
  • There's a break in the melee.†   (source)
  • The battle degenerated into a butchery and a confused melee of personal conflicts.†   (source)
  • It would not close to melee with this man.†   (source)
  • When the police arrived to break up the melee, Phil slipped out the back door.†   (source)
  • The fourth pup appeared and flung himself into the melee with an ecstatic squeal of pleasure.†   (source)
  • In the melee of men and horses, one horse broke a leg and had to be destroyed, and Tom's left shoulder was smashed by a flailing hoof.†   (source)
  • …what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skullalas the stones Cunard (mêlée, final vociferations) tennis …. the stones …. so calm ….†   (source)
  • He strained to see anyone he knew in the melee.†   (source)
  • I screamed and fell back, and in that moment he vanished into the melee, dragging her with him.†   (source)
  • She would have told you that you have no business in the melee.†   (source)
  • They came in a hissing wedge, robes whipping in the wind as they cut through the melee on the plain.†   (source)
  • Robert had asked him the very same question, the morning of the melee.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," he said, "it is not seemly that the king should ride into the melee.†   (source)
  • The dangers of the melee were only a savor to Robert, but this touched on his pride.†   (source)
  • The woman tried to forbid me to fight in the melee.†   (source)
  • They had hoped to kill him during the melee.†   (source)
  • Tell me truly, do you know any surer way to force King Robert into the melee?†   (source)
  • In the melee the soldiers suddenly opened fire, killing five men.†   (source)
  • I won a tourney melee at thirteen, when I was yet a squire.†   (source)
  • He remembered the red priest Thoros of Myr, and the flaming sword he had wielded in the melee.†   (source)
  • Hearthstone took the award for Most Improved in Melee Combat.†   (source)
  • But now he is sketching a melee and the sad scene of "the prostrate form of an injured man."†   (source)
  • Below, beneath the stone-and-timber battlements of a small castle, a melee was in progress.†   (source)
  • He lost patience entirely with the whole grotesque and incomprehensible melee.†   (source)
  • Our melee turned into an awkward shuffle with a lot of shoving, cursing, and bad zombie breath.†   (source)
  • On cue, the dwarves broke away from the melee and fled down the tunnels.†   (source)
  • Ser Balon, I have watched you tilt many a time, and fought with and against you in mêlées.†   (source)
  • I beat your brother bloody in a mêlée once.†   (source)
  • "One day I'll thank you in a mêlée, ser." "The way you thanked Red Ronnet?"†   (source)
  • In mêlées, you'd curse my flaming sword, though thrice I overthrew you with it."†   (source)
  • At the feast, in the melee, even in Renly's pavilion with her brothers of the Rainbow Guard.†   (source)
  • I've fought in tourneys, melees, and battles throughout the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • The lords and ladies in the gallery were as engrossed in the melee as the men on the ground.†   (source)
  • Well, our marriage was a melee, she reflected, so he did not lie.†   (source)
  • Later that evening, Laila thought of how the melee had toppled over, with men falling on top of one another, amid yelps and cries and shouts and flying punches, and, in the middle of it, a grimacing Tariq, his hair disheveled, his leg come undone, trying to crawl out.†   (source)
  • Clarisse was with Lee Fletcher from the Apollo cabin-melee and ranged combat combined, they would be a tough combo to beat.†   (source)
  • After the hunt ended there was supposed to be a celebration, but before the old men could drag their drums out under the tree and get the dancing started, it had already turned into a melee of screaming and fighting.†   (source)
  • As she fought her way with impudent resolve to the front of the melee, Mariam wished she had been a better daughter to Nana.†   (source)
  • His body was tossed and hurled in the stampede like a rag doll, finally rolling to a stop when the melee moved on.†   (source)
  • Behind us, kids were scampering, and a melee of screaming kite runners was chasing the loose kite drifting high above the trees.†   (source)
  • A melee of people had gathered there.†   (source)
  • There was a melee in the yard.†   (source)
  • A chapandaz, a highly skilled horseman usually patronized by rich aficionados, has to snatch a goat or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee, carry that carcass with him around the stadium at full gallop, and drop it in a scoring circle while a team of other chapandaz chases him and does everything in its power—kick, claw, whip, punch—to snatch the carcass from him.†   (source)
  • There were forty riders in the melee.†   (source)
  • He had won melees before; the fire sword frightened the mounts of the other riders, and nothing frightened Thoros.†   (source)
  • He remembered Brandon's laughter, and Robert's berserk valor in the melee, the way he laughed as he unhorsed men left and right.†   (source)
  • By then, the moon was well up and the crowd was tired, so the king decreed that the last three matches would be fought the next morning, before the melee.†   (source)
  • The melee went on for three hours.†   (source)
  • "The king means to fight in the melee today," Ser Barristan said as they were passing Ser Meryn's shield, its paint sullied by a deep gash where Loras Tyrell's lance had scarred the wood as he drove him from his saddle.†   (source)
  • Ser Barristan suggested a tourney instead; his orphans could ride at rings and fight a mêlée with blunted weapons, he said, a suggestion Dany knew was as hopeless as it was well-intentioned.†   (source)
  • "One unfortunate citizen," wrote a reporter, "got in line to buy a win ticket on Patty Cake in the sixth and was considerably bewildered to find himself coming out of the melee at the end of the seventh with a hot dog."†   (source)
  • The unshaven Zhongguo ren then picked up a chair and hurled it into screaming figures near the fallen man, as three other waiters rushed into the melee in defense of their Zongguan.†   (source)
  • In the melee at Bitterbridge she had sought out her suitors and battered them one by one, Farrow and Ambrose and Bushy, Mark Mullendore and Raymond Nayland and Will the Stork.†   (source)
  • He noticed all of these things, and a dozen other melees in progress, but most of his attention was fixed on the enemy before him—Porphyrion, the giant king—and on the god who fought by Jason's side: Zeus.†   (source)
  • This was chaos, a melee of shouting and movement, and the landscape wasn't flat but a mass of mud and blood churned into a thick, unstable paste.†   (source)
  • The crowd was spinning around her; she barely saw them as she pushed through the melee toward the Blackthorns.†   (source)
  • Hazel saw herself riding Anion, charging through the melee and shouting—trying to stop the violence.†   (source)
  • A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub.†   (source)
  • Mark went over to where he'd dropped his Transvice and backpack in the melee of fighting off the crazy woman.†   (source)
  • Then other sounds joined the melee.†   (source)
  • The melee ended as suddenly as it had begun, and the three wolves separated, shook themselves, sniffed noses, wagged their tails hard, and trotted back toward the den with every indication that a good time had been had by all.†   (source)
  • But if we had allowed the Irish to rule themselves, the race would be extinct by now, having bashed each other's brains out in drunken, mindless orgies and furious melees that only such degenerate races are capable of.†   (source)
  • Selena had been expecting it-and still wasn't entirely prepared for the hordes of reporters, the television vans, the spectators holding up their camera phones to capture a snapshot of the melee.†   (source)
  • In the brief melee that erupted, Jason pulled the bewildered guard aside, hammered his knuckles into the base of the man's throat, twisted him as he began to fall and slashed his rigid hand across the back of the guard's neck at the top of the spine.†   (source)
  • Victor in the mêlée at Maidenpool.†   (source)
  • Thorns always needed a new sword after a melee, but Robert had been fond of the man and ever glad to provide one.†   (source)
  • Years later at a feast, she heard him telling a serving wench how he'd cracked the tooth in a mêlée.†   (source)
  • She won the mêlée with a trick.†   (source)
  • She heard King Renly declare the Lady Brienne of Tarth the victor of the great melee at Bitterbridge, last mounted of one hundred sixteen knights.†   (source)
  • "Our cousin Bronze Yohn had himself a mêlée at Runestone," Myranda Royce went on, oblivious, "a small one, just for squires.†   (source)
  • He'd led men in war, hunted with a king, won honor in tourney melees, ridden with Brynden Blackfish and Greatjon Umber, fought in the Whispering Wood, bedded more girls than he could name, and yet this uncle was treating him as though he were still a child of ten.†   (source)
  • During tourneys he had much preferred the mêlée, where he could beat men bloody with blunted axe or hammer.†   (source)
  • There was a great seven-sided melee as well, and archery and axe-throwing, a horse race and tourney of singers ….†   (source)
  • …pouring out of Brienne then, like black blood from a wound; the betrayals and betrothals, Red Ronnet and his rose, Lord Renly dancing with her, the wager for her maidenhead, the bitter tears she shed the night her king wed Margaery Tyrell, the mêlée at Bitterbridge, the rainbow cloak that she had been so proud of, the shadow in the king's pavilion, Renly dying in her arms, Riverrun and Lady Catelyn, the voyage down the Trident, dueling Jaime in the woods, the Bloody Mummers, Jaime…†   (source)
  • Once I near killed him in a melee.†   (source)
  • The first time I rode into a melee with a flaming sword, Kevan Lannister's horse reared and threw him and His Grace laughed so hard I thought he might rupture."†   (source)
  • Besides the jousting, there was a melee in the old style fought between seven teams of knights, as well as archery and axe-throwing, a horse race, a tournament of singers, a mummer show, and many feasts and frolics.†   (source)
  • People were liable to be dangerously injured in the melees.†   (source)
  • He did this, poor fellow, by suddenly taking the opposite side to Lancelot in the grand melee.†   (source)
  • His brain swarmed with pictures—Cyrus directing the charge, the spear-forest of the Macedonian phalanx, the splintered oars, the numberless huddle of the ships at Salamis, the feasts of Alexander, the terrific melee of the knights, the shattered lances, the axe and the sword, the massed pikemen, the beleaguered walls, the scaling ladders heavy with climbing men hurled backward, the Swiss who flung his body on the lances, the press of horse and foot, the gloomy forests of Gaul and…†   (source)
  • Even as she leaned from the window there was a fearful sound of splintering wood, a hoarse cry from Rhett, a melee of blue velvet and flying hooves on the ground.†   (source)
  • What a melee!†   (source)
  • Nobody can be a maestro without being subject to these excitements, so Lancelot seldom minded when he got his face slapped in a melee about shields cut a bouche or about whether it was a good idea to have a guige on your shield or not Sometimes Uncle Dap was tantalized into beating him, but he bore that also.†   (source)
  • Perhaps a quarter of a mile farther out was a dusty melee.†   (source)
  • In the melee he ran against Jesse Smith and thrust both guns at him.†   (source)
  • It was in one of these melees that Jurgis fell into his trap.†   (source)
  • All order seemed to vanish in a rushing mêlée.†   (source)
  • Joan was dragged and crushed in the melee.†   (source)
  • Then the hides and packs were slipped from the pack-train, and soon the pool became a kicking, splashing melee.†   (source)
  • In the evening a wind from the northeast sprang up, and the flakes rushed hither and thither in furious melee.†   (source)
  • Nas Ta Bega turned the mustangs loose among those Shefford had noticed, and presently there rose a snorting, whistling, kicking, plunging melee.†   (source)
  • There was a melee of screeches, in which the men were ordered to do conflicting and impossible things.†   (source)
  • Not until the crashing, snorting, pounding melee had subsided and died away over the rim of the glen did Anson dare leave his frightened favorite.†   (source)
  • In some places, where the bank was steep, the thirsty buffalo behind pushed the row ahead into the water, whence rose a splashing mêlée.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the melee Marija recollected that she did not have her bankbook, and could not get her money anyway, so she fought her way out and started on a run for home.†   (source)
  • Then the crowd surged round the door with shuffling boots and hoarse, mingled greetings to Cleve, who presently came plunging in out of the melee.†   (source)
  • Jaffers was struck under the jaw, and, turning, caught at something that intervened between him and Huxter in the melee, and prevented their coming together.†   (source)
  • The youth had to depend again upon his misused ears, which were trembling and buzzing from the melee of musketry and yells.†   (source)
  • A heavy shock, wild snorts, upflinging heads and hoofs, a terrible tramping, thudding, shrieking melee, then a brown, twisting, tangled mass shot down the slant over the rim!†   (source)
  • Once he had a glimpse of Black Bolly in a melee of dust and sheep; Dave's mustang blurred in his sight; August's roan seemed to be double.†   (source)
  • Here in the shade and dust, and the mêlée of threshing branches round her face, Milly lost all sense of the right direction.†   (source)
  • It would be nothing unusual if he got his skull cracked in the melee——in which case they would report that he had been drunk and had fallen down, and there would be no one to know the difference or to care.†   (source)
  • "If Mr. Newman is going to make a scene in public," she exclaimed, "I will take my poor child out of the melee.†   (source)
  • "I shall tilt to-morrow" answered Athelstane, "in the 'melee'; it is not worth while for me to arm myself to-day."†   (source)
  • But Uncas, who had vainly sought him in the melee, bounded forward in pursuit; Hawkeye, Heyward and David still pressing on his footsteps.†   (source)
  • Luckily for him, all of the Indians had dropped their rifles in the pursuit, or this retreat might not have been effected with impunity; though no one had noted the canoe in the first confusion of the melee.†   (source)
  • The civic bourgeois guard (called the police) attacked the said meeting with bludgeons, according to their custom; many people were hurt in the melee, of whom five in all died, either trampled to death on the spot, or from the effects of their cudgelling; the meeting was scattered, and some hundred of prisoners cast into gaol.†   (source)
  • The victors pushed their success to the opposite shore, and gained the solid ground in the melee of the fight.†   (source)
  • "Gods and fiends!" exclaimed the wounded knight; "O, for one moment's strength, to drag myself to the 'melee', and perish as becomes my name!"†   (source)
  • The Sumach, all the elderly women, and some of the Huron girls, had fallen by the bayonet, either in the confusion of the melee, or from the difficulty of distinguishing the sexes when the dress was so simple.†   (source)
  • Then followed a sort of melee, if such a term can be applied to a struggle between two in which no efforts were strictly visible, the limbs and bodies of the combatants assuming so many attitudes and contortions as to defeat observation.†   (source)
  • The love of battle is the food upon which we live——the dust of the 'melee' is the breath of our nostrils!†   (source)
  • Through this scene of confusion, Cedric rushed in quest of Rowena, while the faithful Gurth, following him closely through the "melee", neglected his own safety while he strove to avert the blows that were aimed at his master.†   (source)
  • It contained the Norman word "melee", (to express the general conflict,) and it evinced some indifference to the honour of the country; but it was spoken by Athelstane, whom he held in such profound respect, that he would not trust himself to canvass his motives or his foibles.†   (source)
  • The treacherous shot finally causes the anticipated melee to break out late in Book IV.†   (source)
  • He shook them and called out to the best men of the Argives to meet him in the melee face to face.†   (source)
  • And at this, once more he joined the melee, entering it as a god.†   (source)
  • We must get through the melee; better save him.†   (source)
  • Apollo would not allow the son of Panthoos to perish in that melee.†   (source)
  • So forward into the melee Hektor charged and turned and called his men to cross the moat.†   (source)
  • , despite, Measle, disease, Medled, mingled, Medley, melee, general encounter, Meiny, retinue, Mickle, much, Minever, ermine, Mischieved, hurt, Mischievous, painful, Miscorr fort, discomfort, Miscreature, unbeliever, Missay, revile,; missaid, Mo, more, More and less, rich and poor, Motes, notes on a horn, Mount~ lance, amount of, extent, Much, great, Naked, unarmed, Namely, especially, Ne, nor, Near-hand, nearly,; near, Needly, needs, on your own compulsion, Nesh, soft, tender,…†   (source)
  • Out of the melee men of his command carried the captain in his agony, encumbered by the long dragging spear.†   (source)
  • At Hektor's side Kebriones made out the melee's pattern: "You and I," he said, "are fighting, Hektor, on the outer edge of a great deafening battle.†   (source)
  • Today's melee will not be brief, when rank meets rank, and heaven breathes fighting spirit into both contenders.†   (source)
  • Instead, he ran back into the melee, pulling from the flesh his ashen spear, and would not face his enemy, even disarmed, in battle.†   (source)
  • In the melee he toppled like a tower.†   (source)
  • He himself went back to join the melee.†   (source)
  • Then from his tender neck Aias Oiliades, in anger for Amphimakhos, lopped his head and bowled it through the melee till it tumbled in dust at Hektor's feet.†   (source)
  • Hippolokhos leapt, but Agamemnon caught him on the ground with one sword-cut, then slashed his arms away and sent him rolling out amid the melee like a round mortar stone.†   (source)
  • Now headed inland, eyes upon the melee, the princes came that way, leaning on spears, with aching hearts; and the advent of Nestor gave their hearts a new twinge.†   (source)
  • Young Glaukos, too, leader of Lykians, in the rough melee hit Iphinoos Dexiades just as he swung aboard his fast war-car: he rammed him in the shoulder, and down he tumbled from his chariot.†   (source)
  • Aias leaping through the melee struck his helm with brazen cheekplates; round the point the ridge that bore the crest crumpled at impact, cleft by a great spear in a massive hand.†   (source)
  • Then, singlehanded, Diomedes joined the melee forward of the old man's horses and called to him, in a piercing voice: "Old man, they have you in a bad way, these young Trojans.†   (source)
  • And roaring Ares heard no news as yet that his own son died in that melee—no, for he was sitting on high Olympos under golden clouds, restrained by the will of Zeus, as were the other immortal gods, all shut away from war.†   (source)
  • The chariot men he first instructed in the way of battle— charioteers to keep their team in line, not to be tangled, cut off in the melee: "None of you should rely so far on horsemanship or bravery as to attack alone—much less retreat alone.†   (source)
  • Gusts of crying wind on days when dust lies thickest on the lanes will wrestle and raise a dustcloud high: so spread this melee as men came together, sworn with whittled bronze to kill and strip each other.†   (source)
  • Then came Peisandros in a rush at the great figure of Menelaos— impelled by fatal destiny to fall before you in the melee, Menelaos— and when the range narrowed between these two Menelaos missed: the spear was turned aside: but Peisandros got home his stroke upon Menelaos' shield.†   (source)
  • So down the ranks that dazzling goddess went to stir the attack, and each man in his heart grew strong to fight and never quit the melee, for at her passage war itself became lovelier than return, lovelier than sailing in the decked ships to their own native land.†   (source)
  • And Zeus would never turn his shining eyes away from this melee, but watched them all and pondered long over the slaughter of Patroklos— whether in that place, on Sarpedon's body, Hektor should kill the man and take his gear, or whether he, Zeus, should augment the moil of battle for still other men.†   (source)
  • This is notably the case with /café/, /crêpe/, /début/, /débutante/, /portière/, /levée/, /éclat/, /fête/, /régime/, /rôle/, /soirée/, /protégé/, /élite/, /mêlée/, /tête-à-tête/ and /répertoire/.†   (source)
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