King returned to their tents, Jaland said to them, Ofolk, by the virtue of the Sun’s light-giving ray and by the darkness of the Night and the light of the Day and the Stars that stray, I thought not this day to have escaped death in mellay; for, had I fallen into yonder fellow’s hands, he had eaten me, as I were ❋ Unknown (2006)
The mellay waxed hot with cut and thrust; and the two slaves fought their best; but the blacks slew them both in less than the twinkling of an eye. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Slain were the warriors that were slain556 and they stayed not from the mellay till the decline of the sun in the heavenly dome, when the Kings drew off their armies and returned each to its own camp. 557 Then King Teghmus took tally of his men and found that he had lost five thousand, and four standards had been broken to bits, whereat he was sore an-angered; whilst King ❋ Unknown (2006)
So he ate his fill and, taking leave of the giant, set out again and ceased not faring on over the mountains and sandy deserts for ten days; at the end of which time he saw, in the distance, a dust cloud hanging like a canopy in air; and, making towards it, he heard a mighty clamour, cries and blows and sounds of mellay. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; nor did the swords cease on the napes of men to make play nor the strife to rage with more and more affray, till the most part of the night was past away and the two hosts were aweary of the mellay. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nor did they stint from the mellay till the darkness fell down, when they drew apart, after there had been slain of the Infidels men without compt. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It was a mellay; a medley; an entrancing spectacle (to William) of dappled light and shade on half clothed, fantastically coloured, leaping, jerking, swinging legs and arms. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As she rose above the mellay, I looked to see if she was frightened; but she was leaning forward, grasping the chair-arms, her lips parted as if she drank the wind. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
The thousand sounds and odors of the fearful night and of the slow dawn; the fire whistles shrilling through the wintry air, the gongs on truck and cart adding their clangor to the mad mellay, the shouts of men, the bawling of orders, the screams of frightened women, the uncanny sound of the mewing of an imprisoned cat in a window, whose instinct told it what its sense could not. ❋ Alden Charles Noble (N/A)
Continually recurring, shock, mellay and rally overlapped, attack and repulse were inextricably mingled, the very lulls between the paroxysms were big with wrath. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)
Came there unto the mellay/six hundred knights of those ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
Once more the nimble Volker/into the mellay spurred, ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
That after their country's fashion/they ride a mass mellay. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
Did they forego the mellay,/please him better far it would. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
Straight dashed into the mellay/Hagen and his men. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
The clash of arms in mellay/soon full loud did swell. ❋ George Henry Needler (1914)
Someone caught him by the arm and snatched him from the mellay into the cover of a thicket. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
Courtrai, when the horses squealed like pigs in the mellay and I wept in fear for him. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
But for him was the sterner task -- no clean blows in the mellay among brethren, but a lone pilgrimage beyond the east wind to the cradle of all marvels. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
The alert being sudden, I had run forth without shoes or stockings; my hat had been struck from my head in the mellay; my kit was in the hands of the English; I had no companion but the cipaye, no weapon but my sword, and the devil a coin in my pocket. ❋ Unknown (1889)
" [what are those] girls doing they were just in [Chris's] car?"
" mellay and sherraying [broski]" ❋ Baitin Me (2009)
