1 Even as she leaned from the window there was a fearful sound of splintering wood, a hoarse cry from Rhett, a melee of blue velvet and flying hooves on the ground.
2 In the midst of the melee Marija recollected that she did not have her bankbook, and could not get her money anyway, so she fought her way out and started on a run for home.
3 But Uncas, who had vainly sought him in the melee, bounded forward in pursuit; Hawkeye, Heyward and David still pressing on his footsteps.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 4 The youth had to depend again upon his misused ears, which were trembling and buzzing from the melee of musketry and yells.
5 In fact, so pleased did the skewbald seem with his new friends that he refused to stir from the melee into which an unforeseen chance had plunged him.
6 It was in one of these melees that Jurgis fell into his trap.