See pell-mell on Wiktionary
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"ref": "[1594, Robert Garnier, translated by Thomas Kid [i.e., Thomas Kyd], Pompey the Great, His Faire Corneliaes Tragedie: […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Nicholas Ling, published 1595, →OCLC, act V:",
"text": "But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]",
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},
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"ref": "1861, George Wilkes, The Great Battle, page 27:",
"text": "Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.",
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},
{
"ref": "[1884], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘The Breaker has come up before Them’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], →OCLC, page 289:",
"text": "The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1905, Charles Sanford Terry, The Young Pretender, page 81:",
"text": "Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "A group of the reapers whom we had seen running from the fields were lying all pell-mell, their bodies crossing each other, at the bottom of it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Rodney Hall, The Island in the Mind, page 400:",
"text": "And the prompter our payments the more pell-mell the news came in and the more obligingly gruesome its detail.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Marion Woods, “Getting Ready”, in A Spiritual Journey Through Poetry with Marion Woods, published 2009, page 48:",
"text": "Some are already packed up well; / Others are at it, most pell mell.",
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},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezrazborno",
"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "безразборно"
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "лудешки"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"word": "hlava nehlava"
},
{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "o překot"
},
{
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"word": "haastig"
},
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"word": "ongecontroleerd"
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},
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anamíx",
"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "ἀναμίξ"
},
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"word": "bezładnie"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "na łeb, na szyję"
},
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "беспоря́дочно"
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{
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "тяп-ляп"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "huvudstupa"
}
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"word": "helter-skelter"
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{
"word": "willy-nilly"
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"extra": "ball game",
"word": "pall mall"
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}
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