His past went soberly before him; he beheld it as it was, ugly and strenuous like a dream, random as chance-medley -- a scene of defeat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short-story] Reference

But in his heart he thought, My unlucky protegee has with this luckless answer shot dead, by a kind of chance-medley, her only hope of success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

A chance-medley fight was on the point of taking place, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference

Beware of malice prepense, of chance-medley, and of manslaughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Shakespeare] Reference

No plea was set up that the action was unpremeditated, and the event chance-medley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

Sleep the sleep of the just, and, what is better in this chance-medley world, of the happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Sombre Rivals] Reference

Our law makes the death of a servant, by his master's reasonable beating of him, but chance-medley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference

While this was transacting upon the quarter-deck, a chance-medley fight was going on throughout the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference

That means one of two things: either that these laws arose by chance-medley, or that some one enacted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference

We lay in a vast chance-medley, and never had any country greater need for care and caution in its councils.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purchase Price] Reference

I have not time or paper, else I could draw an inference, not very illustrative of your chance-medley system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Wollstonecraft] Reference

But in his heart he thought, My unlucky protge has with this luckless answer shot dead, by a kind of chance-medley, her only hope of success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

One is that Marryat had the true quality of the craftsman, as distinguished from the amateur or the chance-medley man who has a lucky inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Novel] Reference

Indeed, I am inclined to think the old man bore some peevish recollection of having been handled rather roughly by the gipsy, in the chance-medley affair of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference

Indeed I am inclined to think the old man bore some peevish recollection of having been handled rather roughly by the gipsy in the chance-medley affair of May-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracebridge Hall] Reference

His deep and pious spirit recoiled with disgust and horror from such lax, chance-medley maxims, that would, in their consequences, reduce man to the level of the brutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coningsby] Reference

It is hardly necessary to ask the latter question, for chance-medley could not lead to regular operations -- operations so regular that a court of law may act upon their evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference

"Nature does this," and "Nature does that," forgetting entirely the fact that "Nature" is a mere personification and means either chance-medley or a Creator, according to the old dilemma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference

But the other side -- the purely sentimental -- let us not say psychological -- side, is of far more consequence; for here we have not merely aspiration or chance-medley, we have attainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

And as for this here matter, ten to one it will turn out chance-medley, or manslaughter, at the worst on it; and then it is but a singed thumb instead of a twisted neck — always if there be no.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

This, however, has merely brought us in contact with a chance-medley of our own countrymen, these diplomatic entertainments being quite obviously a matter of accident, so far as the set is concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Europe] Reference

We put out a trolling line, and took a bass or so; and once Lafitte, firing chance-medley into a passing flock of plover, knocked down a half-dozen, so that we bade fair to have enough for dinner that night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive] Reference

Yeah, well I was trying to finesse that whole “chance-medley”/“chaud-medley” can of worms, but now that you’re opened it, watch outbelow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare: The Upbeat News About the Obama Administration] Reference

Yeah, well I was trying to finesse that whole “chance-medley”/“chaud-medley” can of worms, but now that you’re opened it, watch out below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare: The Upbeat News About the Obama Administration] Reference

Yeah, well I was trying to finesse that whole “chance-medley”/ “chaud-medley” can of worms, but now that you’re opened it, watch outbelow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare: The Upbeat News About the Obama Administration] Reference

Was all this mere chance-medley?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference

May a chance-medley, and no Murther be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of English Poetry] Reference

Or are its operations a mere chance-medley?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Morals and Other Essays] Reference

In Battle, the chance-medley game of Death.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects] Reference

The jury found it chance-medley. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

The jury found it chance-medley. "”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan 1659/'60]