chance-medley

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NOUN
  1. an unpremeditated killing of a human being in self defense
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How To Use chance-medley In A Sentence

  • The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley. William Shakespeare
  • This shows us the reason why in mixed modes any of the ideas that make the composition of the complex one being left out or changed, it is allowed to be another thing, i.e. to be of another species, as is plain in chance-medley, manslaughter, murder, parricide, &c. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • You say that James Annesley is Not Guilty of the felony and murder whereof he stands indicted, but is Guilty of chance-medley.
  • I have not time or paper, else I could draw an inference, not very illustrative of your chance-medley system. Mary Wollstonecraft
  • 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. Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • 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. Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • 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. Short Stories for English Courses
  • So saying, he thrust the magic lance into some of the pigmy effigies, and belabored others with the but-end, upon which the former fell as dead upon the board, and the rest turning upon each other began, pell-mell, a chance-medley fight. The Alhambra
  • 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. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • He, who commits chance-medley, shall fly his country for a year, till satisfaction be made to the dead person's kindred.
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