Very different from--" At this point not less than three persons enquired of Lady Adela if she would not take another cup of tea; and in the hospitable melee which ensued Grandma's further utterances were obscured.
This caused the line to tighten and all went on top of the pair and a grand melee resulted.
But then Larry came up with a huge cake of snow and nearly smothered Tom, and then a dozen leaped in, and a good-natured melee resulted, lasting for the rest of the playtime.
One flies, another pursues swiftly: the combatants are many, the plain wide, the battle and the MELEE fierce.
MELEE was to be seen, with many a blow of lance and sword; the English still defending themselves, killing the horses and cleaving the shields.
The report of the pistol brought others to the room and a general melee ensued in which the bar was demolished, the stove broken and Gilbert unmercifully whipped.
Exchanging a few shots with the cavalry, this party retreated upon the Sparta road--McCann's horse was shot in the melee and fell, bringing him to the ground.
He charged vigorously, and a melee ensued, in which the combatants were mixed all together.
Out of the greyness of approaching morning a melee of wild horsemen appeared.
When, above the melee he heard the terrorized screams of a horse, a deadly fear clutched him.
He hardly knew what followed, except that there was a general melee and clashing of weapons; then, somehow, he found himself on the ground.
A student of the temperament of the great statesman, as he has since then so pre-eminently shown himself to be, is bound to give his mind to the volume called La Melee Sociale which M.
Clemenceau an obsession which is reflected in every chapter of La Melee Sociale.
Clemenceau's political fall and the publication of La Melee Sociale had been marked by violent unrest and by a succession of political crimes.
But by the time he collected his essays in La Melee Sociale, he was completely infatuated by the system of Darwin.
The imagination of the author of La Melee Sociale broods upon the monstrous facts of natural history.
Here the tone of Le Grand Pan becomes identical with that of La Melee Sociale.
Then there was a fiercemelee for a few seconds, a melee in which bayonets crossed, and tulwars and swords flashed in the sun.
Only one circumstance of the battle merits description; and, indeed, it is the only intelligible one in the melee of the knights.
Some hours before, they had marched purposely to the succour of Percy; but the clangour of the melee had terrified them into a retreat.
I found myself in the midst of a melee with my hand at his throat and his at mine.
Disregarding the melee behind me, I leaped through the wreckage with the other raiders.
And now it was Carl who stick-handled the puck out of the melee and broke away for a dash, with Whiz frenziedly bringing up the rear.
In the melee the puck was hit into the open between the struggling group and the Melville cage.
Just when the melee grew worst they reached the cedar fence, only half of which had been burned by the resentful Hardman outfit, and this obstruction was of signal help to the riders.
And over on the other side dinned the melee over the main herd, the incessant riding, yelling of the cowboys and the bawling of the cows.
He had saved his friend from the first wild melee of the war--the war that promised rest and nothingness to him, even while he kept his promise to "live and do his best.
Thereupon the superintendent gave the word to charge, and in the melee which followed truncheons were made use of, and three policemen were stabbed, one of them being killed on the spot.
In the melee which followed, the police were worsted, and the situation was barely saved by the opportune appearance of the military.
Nevertheless, such was the impetuosity with which, from the very start of the action, he dashed upon the enemy at the head of a legion of cavalry, that the flux and reflux of the melee at first separated me from him.
Freed from him, I was vainly endeavoring to discover and join Victorin, when I descried Neroweg, the Terrible Eagle, only a few paces from me, in the melee which his gigantic stature overtowered.
Next came a melee of shouts, and he peered out to see the Rajputs encircling him, crouched in a firing pose, each bow aimed on a horseman and taut with its first arrow.
He moved closer to the royal pavilion, pushing his way through the melee of shirtless servants.
Naturally the party rebelled, and during the melee which followed Adam Smith and another man were killed and one of the women, Mrs. Murray, was wounded but saved herself by crawling away through the tall grass.
Sometimes the candles were extinguished, and the melee became greater, till the order and light were restored together.
These were the orders and don Ramon de Linea sped forward with six hundred arquebusiers--all picked men--they wore their shirts over their armour, so that in the melee which was to come they might recognise one another in the gloom.
How it had all been done she did not know: presently from the tramping of feet she gathered that the melee had broken up: a woman's voice said loudly: "Gott vergelte!
Whereupon the melee becomes general; the cavalry charges into the now serried ranks of the Orangists who are forced momentarily to retreat.
And simultaneously with themelee in the Vridachmart, the insurgents have made a general attack upon every guild-house, every market, every tavern where soldiers are quartered and congregated.
Horse-play had become a matter of blows followed by threats of arrest and dark hints at heresy, rebellion and the Inquisition: the melee was at its height when Mark interfered.
It was somewhere in amongst those shadows that a melee between shouting soldiers and shrieking women was taking place.
During all this melee tournament, I perceived that the worthy jib as he would be called in the parlance of Trinity, Mr. Cudmore, remained perfectly silent, and apparently terrified.
After assisting the frightened fellow to dismount, and having cut the traces of the restive animal, I then perceived that in the melee I had not escaped scatheless.
We met the Turk, a melee ensued, he was unfortunately killed; but I secured the despatches.
All was the most picturesque melee for the first half-dozen rounds, all was the most picturesque flight for the next.
Even in the melee and excitement of retreat, the General was wonderfully amused, and amazed too, at the little fellow's fearlessness.
In the melee his rifle had been discharged and he had broken away at the same instant and turned to defend himself with the butt.
Plesser and Hindle standing aside from the melee and urging their comrades to surrender and join with the English against the tyranny of von Schoenvorts.
In the melee which followed they upset the pails of water.
In the melee one old woman was nearly crushed to death.
There are some other pieces that I must put in hand at once, seeing that in such a melee you must be covered from head to foot.
I would rather fight in the thickest melee in a cloth doublet," Walter said indignantly, "than part with a single link of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
