Adverb : The crowd rushed pell-mell into the store when the doors opened. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a pell-mell dash after someone. ,pell-mell spending. From Dictionary.com.
The whole world is running pell-mell after this idol. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Joey heltered and skeltered pell-mell up the street. From Wordnik.com. [Mescaline Blues] Reference
Union retreated or ran pell-mell across the northern counties of. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
As on the previous evening, everything came tumbling pell-mell out of the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Like deerhounds, his men rose up and dashed pell-mell into the panic-stricken host. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
This party had a skirmish with a squad of the enemy's videttes, driving them pell-mell. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
China's pell-mell growth -- 10 percent in the 1980s, 9 percent in the 1990s -- is slowing. From Wordnik.com. [Power To The Poor] Reference
We struck the rebel cavalry beyond the Big Black, and pushed them pell-mell into and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Disenfranchised or citizens, allies or aliens, pell-mell the lot of them in we will squeeze. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
The fugitives rushed through the camp pell-mell, and all who were left there joined in the stampede. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
And, tumbling over one another rushing pell-mell after them, came the crowd of heedless young people. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
This caused such a fright that notwithstanding our protest, the whole party returned pell-mell to Fort. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
I was not long in jumping into my boots I can tell yon, and all in the forecastle ran upstairs pell-mell. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The infantry followed pell-mell, heaped promiscuously on one another, or struck down by the war clubs of the. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
A pell-mell -- a crowd of men and women were tacking down and sowing rich and sumptuous stuffs on the floors. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
There is a thud, and a whole sack of potatoes fall pell-mell into the yard, still muddy from yesterday's rain. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Presently the air was filled with yells and whoops; our tormentors rushed off pell-mell, the guards only remaining. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Away they went after him, pell-mell, and dashed up the yielding sides to bury their pails deep in the golden particles. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The airmen, by throwing ballast and other portable articles overboard pell-mell, rose rapidly, pursued by the hostile shells. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
So impressed was Mr. Witherspoon by what he saw that he immediately directed all of his charges to make for the spot pell-mell. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
Forming our lines on top of the hill (Gain's) with an Irish cheer we went down the northern side of the hill pell-mell for the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The reports came worse and worse, and another pell-mell stampede began for the east, some stopping at Wilton, Owatonna and Rochester. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
In one such engagement a whole brigade was driven pell-mell through its camp, and their cooking utensils captured by their opponents. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference
Officers and crew were huddled together pell-mell, and, with our usual loose discipline, every body joined in the conversation and counsel. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Indeed, one of the tragedies of China's pell-mell development is that the country hasn't carefully considered the social costs of its growth model. From Wordnik.com. [THE HIGH ROAD] Reference
During the New Deal, the pell-mell expansion of government supervision of economic life was propelled primarily by fears generated by cascading events. From Wordnik.com. [Conservatism: Not TBTF] Reference
Jane's candle flared and went out in the draught from the suddenly opened door, and in the smothering darkness they stumbled pell-mell down the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And by the worry that the people driving the pell-mell agenda will not pause to ask how to do all of it, because they fear that the answer is: You can't. From Wordnik.com. [Frayed Nerves, Short Tempers] Reference
He had come in on my right flank from the direction of the Hatchie River, pell-mell with our picket-post stationed about three miles out on the Ripley road. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
China, flush with pride and power after 20 years of pell-mell economic growth, is spending heavily on its military and flexing its newfound diplomatic muscle. From Wordnik.com. [ASIA: FURIES UNLEASHED] Reference
Even in the fields we make a living in, we're more likely to rely on what we learned at school, or pick up pell-mell on the job, than on new reading in depth. From Wordnik.com. [Getting a mental kick from tackling tough books] Reference
We entered pell-mell into the city, and passed over the dead bodies, and some not yet dead, hearing them cry under our horses 'feet; and they made my heart ache to hear them. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The only guarantee is that the transitions will be jarring, especially if the changes arrive pell-mell, and we fail to take measures to shape the direction of this revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Technomania] Reference
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