I must gain control over this situation, he thought, knowing that a general melee could erupt at any moment.

The next moment there was a general mêlée.

But the fight had become a general melee.

A troop of guards came running down from their posts, adding to the general melee.

But he still didn't know a way to prove it without causing a general mêlée which would bring about their own deaths.

His attention was caught by an embattled little group on the edge of the general melee.

We were then too high for much detail, but it looked a general melee back where Mala had been.

It was as if a signal had been given for a general melee to begin.

A series of fights then broke out, but the police said there was no general melee between the races.

A general melee broke out, and most of the citizens dove under their pews for safety.