Up half-a-dozen steps, and again the helter-skelter retreat.
A little group of men sprang out of the trench and charged in a V a-down the square; the rest of the company poured out in helter-skelter pursuit.
Would Jove but to the rest impart A piece of thy undaunted heart, Trojans would helter-skelter run, And their old walls come tumbling down.
But not so uneasy as to believe her dying, and that it was needful to ride to her helter-skelter in the night-time.
One man was going off to fetch it, but then news was brought that the Krooboy Brass Pan had been caught, and the whole gang of them went off helter-skelter toward the village--and again Kettle knew the reason for their haste.
They were severed from the other party by the broken bridge and the crowd of panic-stricken porters, who flung down their loads and fled helter-skelter into the bush.
The earl's retainers were not valiant enough to await a third volley, but fled helter-skelter the way they had come, all but those who could neither ride nor run.
Looking the other way, I saw a mass of hunched backs and bent heads, helter skelter to the door.
Grismer, and the jaunty, obese Mr. Welter, known in sporting circles as Helter Skelter Welter, and more briefly and profanely as Hel.
There the things still lay helter-skelter on her bed.
As she remembered now, on her way downstairs that night she had met him coming up; Mr. Mapy was running, helter-skelter too.
XVII Right and left did he dash helter-skelter In agonized search of a shelter.
They brought sacks of hard-tack and ship-biscuit, and when they laid them down and sat on them audacious rats ran helter-skelter out and scampered wildly off in all directions.
On the death of a king, it had been usual for the attendants to rush helter-skelter out of the room, and ransack the house of the deceased monarch, while his successor generally made the best of his way down to the treasury.
Taking instant advantage of this, we charged them with a wild hurrah, whereupon they fairly turned tail and fled before us, rushing helter-skelter in among the other party.
The lines of civilians were driven helter-skelter to cover--where, I don't know.
The Prussians had charged across the field and had come upon a sunken road into which they fell helter-skelter without having time to draw rein.
He had one advantage over most of the men who were being driven helter-skelter by the grateful lash of the West: he was a trained money-getter.
It is like a vast grey box in which are laid helter-skelter a great many toys, each of which is itself completely significant apart from the always unchanging temporal dimension which merely contains it along with the rest.
He had, at one time, seen a bridge hastily constructed by les alliés over the Yser River, the cadavers of the faithful and the enemy alike being thrown in helter-skelter to make a much needed foundation for the timbers.
As it is, we are already pledged to do the most absurd and unusual things, and Ireland bids fair to be seen in the most topsy-turvy, helter-skelter fashion imaginable.
They came presently to the sand-dunes, where rabbits sat at their burrow-mouths, or ran helter-skelter across the road in front of the slow cart.
The description of Waspy Weasel's trick on the schoolmaster in Helter Skelter Land where he squeezes bittersweet juice into the schoolmaster's milk and puts him to sleep, I think would lead any inquiring mind to try it.
And the Haven rushing nearer and nearer, as sombre patches of pine-gloom, spectral open spaces, tore helter-skelter in the opposite direction.
In the confusion that followed the Wolves stampeded, running helter-skelter in all directions.
There is nothing wonderful in the helter-skelter rush for the Jordan, or in the road being littered with abandoned baggage.
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