How To Use Pell-mell In A Sentence
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An article providing for a one-year grace period was not debated in the pell-mell final day of the legislative session.
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Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer.
Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
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They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
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I ran pell-mell down the bleachers, forgetting about my supposedly sprained ankle, and grabbed the nearest fan.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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Nobody scored more than the Bulgarian's 20 league goals last season, and his finishing is hallmarked by the composure that would surely have brought order to Saturday's pell-mell chaos.
Manchester United lose killer instinct while Dimitar Berbatov waits
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Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer.
Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
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a pell-mell dash for the train
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We are hunting venison, not hurtling pell-mell to our deaths!
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To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
Little Women
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One of his French prisoners has escaped - and it pitches the unfortunate Jerrold into a pell-mell race across England in a pursuit that takes him from the stinking marshes of Chatham to the wilds of Dartmoor.
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The clowns are delivering their aid in the most personal way, with not just a joke and a smile, but hugs and tears and the pell-mell of circus-like performances.
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To fans in the stands or on television, the two racecars appear to be in a flat-out, pell-mell charge to the finish line.
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Turning back toward the door and shouting thanks over my shoulder, I ran pell-mell onto the busy city sidewalk.
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We have never known the euphoria of riding across country on a crisp winter's morning, summoned the bravery to fly pell-mell over hedges and ditches or experienced the extraordinary exhilaration of feeling at one with a horse.
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Bernard embarked on pell-mell international expansion, building strong operations across the rest of Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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The forwards spent most of the match running pell-mell into each other and then cheating like crazy at the breakdown.
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The rest of us are riding pell-mell in the other direction.
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A naked sword leaned against a stool by the side of a shield; whips of hippopotamus leather, cymbals, bells, and necklaces were displayed pell-mell on baskets of esparto-grass; a felt rug lay soiled with crumbs of black bread; some copper money was carelessly heaped upon
Salammbo
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Mary, on her way to Greenwich, was warned of the trap and rode pell-mell for Norfolk.
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At the sound of the alarm bell, the customers ran pell-mell for the doors.
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It may be a pell-mell of words but feelings should make a piece worth reading.
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She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.
"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to."
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Magius, 1664 "; then, pell-mell, there were: _A curious and edifying miscellany concerning church bells_ by Dom Rémi Carré; another _Edifying miscellany_, anonymous; a _Treatise of bells_ by Jean-Baptiste Thiers, curate of Champrond and Vibraye; a ponderous tome by an architect named
Là-bas
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I snatched up my belongings, flung them in pell-mell, jumped upon the box, snapped to the hasp, and ran off with a porter towards the train, blank despair in my heart.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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A red rope separates about 30 of us from the groaning, pressing mass of humanity that's about to charge pell-mell into the freezing San Francisco Bay.
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She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.
Commonplace
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We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into the city.
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A dozen horseman galloped pell-mell to within a few yards of where I was sitting, simultaneously checking their horses, turning their horses on a sixpence, in order to deliver a volley of rifle fire.
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The children rushed pell-mell down the stairs.
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But this is the way of the world, that when a man or woman sings more tunably than his fellows, those about the fire fall upon him, pell-mell, for reason of their envy.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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The baqueanos (local horsemen who help Alec) are all charming and when they get bored Roberto, Pato or Chapulin are liable to liven things up by galloping off to lasso cattle or instigating crazy, pell-mell races.
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Thus, for decades, corporations and individuals have bored deep into fossil water, which is not replenishable - a pell-mell water mining that has left what remains as brackish as the sea.
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The chaotic retreat illustrated the often pell-mell nature of rebel operations, in which laborers and teachers with little training are left to find rides to the front in private vehicles.
Gaddafi intensifies campaign
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Friday was a perfect example of the pell-mell rush of these days.
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The statues range from nine to sixty feet in height and from three to one hundred tons in weight, and are scattered around the island pell-mell.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II)
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With what little lead the Jaff had offered eroded with every second he delayed, Howie ran pell-mell for the open street.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Nobody scored more than the Bulgarian's 20 league goals last season, and his finishing is hallmarked by the composure that would surely have brought order to Saturday's pell-mell chaos.
Manchester United lose killer instinct while Dimitar Berbatov waits
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His cuirassiers plunged into the thick of the fray at once, driving the Swedes pell-mell back across the ditch and road.
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Everything's gone pell-mell!
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Even groups that we have admired are now in pell-mell cowardly retreat.
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But it surprised us all nevertheless, and there was a mad rush as humans, Elves, Gnomes, and what have you scampered pell-mell to their cabins.
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As great cities were being built pell-mell, millions of peasants were being dispossessed and bigger capital was destroying small artisanal and shopkeeping enterprises.
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But these last two points are faults of the plays, not the production, which at its best is a breathlessly pell-mell, swaggeringly epic dose of theatre.
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Sometimes it's handy to zoom in and select specific units but it's probably easier to learn the shortcut keys and create groups of units before running pell-mell into the opposition.
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He turned his attention to abuses in Church and State, which he lashed with caustic satire, conveyed in short doggerel rhyming lines peculiar to himself, in which jokes, slang, invectives, and Latin quotations rush out pell-mell.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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With so much at stake, too, the tendency is always to launch into pell-mell play, all motion and little notion.
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What's been largely missing, though, through these pell-mell days, has been the time to rethink pat agendas rather than fit the facts around them - or the imagination to give the suckers on all sides an even break.
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Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
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This was little more than a large house overstuffed with prize pieces salvaged during the pell-mell escape from the capital.
Fire The Sky
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What’s uncouth is that pell-mell deployment of punctuation, Paul.
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An entire generation of backs are growing up thinking that rugby is about nothing more than running pell-mell into bodies when, if the laws were properly upheld, they would have the luxury of space that comes with quick ball.
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They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations; and the lights flashed as the others came pouring out of the cemetery pell-mell, like men possessed.
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Behind the marked turnaround: pell-mell economic growth, an ultra-easy monetary policy, and a bank lending boom.
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Originally it was published with drawings and a surrealistic text to be read pell-mell over sometimes very loud music, not performed on the disc.
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When we first see him he is running pell-mell through the streets of Edinburgh before he is cornered.
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Obviously, it shouldn't be a deadline which forces us to leave rapidly, in a pell-mell fashion.
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So saying, he thrust the magic lance into some of the pigmy effigies, and belabored others with the but-end, upon which the former fell as dead upon the board, and the rest turning upon each other began, pell-mell, a chance-medley fight.
The Alhambra
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Following the favourite custom of the hermetics, the walls were inscribed with many legends of this description; some traced in ink, others engraved with a metal point; Gothic characters, Hebrew, Greek and Roman, pell-mell; inscribed at random, overlapping each other, the more recent effacing the earlier ones, and all interlacing and mingled like the branches of a thicket or the pikes in a mêlée.
IV. Fate. Book VII
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She ran down the stairs, chasing the rat with a marble pell-mell.
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A government, driven pell-mell by a media agenda, shooting first and asking questions later.
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Since you asked... the American idea was born at approximately 5 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 1803, the moment Thomas Jefferson sprang the so-called pell-mell on the new British ambassador, Anthony Merry, at dinner in the White House.
But in a Way, Aren't We All Winners?
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Yet stealthily he has displayed a tactical nous in Europe even if the pell-mell of the Premiership, especially away from home, remains a mystery to his enigmatic and infuriating charges.
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running pell-mell up the stairs
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As fast as the prisoners came over the rail they were marshalled forward to the forecastle by our hunters, while our sailors hoisted in the boats, pell-mell, dropping them anywhere upon the deck and not stopping to lash them.
Chapter 25
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The shortfall is widely blamed on the pell-mell panic inside MF Global to keep the securities firm alive long enough to arrange a sale.
Money From MF Global Feared Gone
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To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express pur - pose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.
Little Women
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Somehow in his pell-mell race through the woods he had left her behind.
LORD PRESTIMION
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U.S. companies continue a pell-mell rush into offshore outsourcing of software development.
