helter-skelter

Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre's pit, they will, at the slightest alarm of fire, rush helter-skelter for the outlets, crowding, trampling, jamming, and remorselessly dashing each other to death.

Have you forgotten how when you were alone I chased you from your herds helter-skelter down the slopes of Ida?

Do you let everybody run over your land in that country helter-skelter, as they do here, shooting the game, so that a gentleman has but little or no chance with his gun?

On they dashed, helter-skelter, until they pulled up panting at the office where the lawyer of the Westmacotts was to be found.

They flew helter-skelter out of his grips, landing in all manner of attitudes, grotesquely and harmlessly, in the soft snow.

It would have been a triumphant descent, if a big dog had not bounced suddenly through one of the openings, and sent the whole concern helter-skelter into the gutter.

There were yells of rage and pain, and the terrified people fled into houses and stores, or scattered helter-skelter down the street.

The children came in helter-skelter, tumbling over one another like so many puppies.

The crowd of diners and attendants that tumbled helter-skelter down the passages divided into two groups.

But, however they differed when looked at separately, they shared the same huge, lovable nature in the bulk, which murmured and swayed and quivered all the time the dancing and juggling and love-making went on in front of it, slowly laughed and reluctantly left off laughing, and applauded with a helter-skelter generosity which sometimes became unanimous and overwhelming.

Until at last they got so jumbled together, in the hurry-skurry, helter-skelter, of the match, that whether the kettle chirped and the Cricket hummed, or the Cricket chirped and the kettle hummed, or they both chirped and both hummed, it would have taken a clearer head than yours or mine to have decided with anything like certainty.

As in: 'It rained last week and those caught in the downpour ran helter-skelter for cover.

A leopard strayed into a human settlement in Chandrapur district scaring the residents and forcing them to run helter-skelter to save their lives.