If she had any fear at all it was for the man at her left--Denny--who might run amuck on her account and spoil everything.
Morrissy--one of the squarest chaps in the world--ran amuck the last minute.
These histories of free-thinking young men breaking loose from their father's authority and running amuck among Paris studios and Leicester Square actresses become tedious and banal after a time.
And is it only when you are running amuck that you hear it?
I have seen it happen so often in India, don't you know, where fellows run amuck and kick up the deuce's own delight.
I've seen them running amuck in Singapore and Penang before now, but never yet on this side of the big pond.
Just to add to all our other troubles this week we have run amuck of the Major.
Whoever runs amuck in his emotions runs amuck in his whole being.
Also she turned a delighted ear when he dropped into the homely settler speech; listened for the old locutions; but called his bluff when he overdid the part by running amuck of the grammar in a manner frightful to behold.
Running amuck was a constant theme in his early writings; his comets ran amuck, and so did Mr. Bessel, and there is no more relished wanton scene than that of the Invisible Man running amuck through the Surrey villages.
But any hope of him as an active aide in recapturing the run-amuck was gainsaid by his efforts to get the girl out of the chase.
A prairie steer scarcely could run amuck in the heart of New York without spreading more or less havoc.
And he did not wish to fall into the hands of the police who had hauled his run-amuck escutcheon out of the lake and taken him in charge.
Sidenote: Only near the End of the World does Fate catch up with Tugh, the cripple who ran amuck through Time.
I will not run amuck and vilify and defame them, as teetotal tracts and platforms would most assuredly do, if the question were one of drinking instead of driving: I merely ask what is to be done with them!
He had the strength of several men, and he ran amuck with it.
The old amuck rage was on him, and he wanted blood, anybody's blood.
Thus, in 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amuck at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials.
But one might as well judge all blacks by the fellow who ran amuck last week, or decide that all whites are cowards because one has met a cowardly white.
Once a huge black, crazed by drink, had run amuckand terrorized the town, until his evil star had led him to where the black-haired French giant lolled upon the veranda of the hotel.
Ritchie had allowed his men to run amuck even to the extent of attacking their comrades in Colonel Weer's brigade, which was the second in Blunt's reorganized army.
You know the way they run amuck on the Stock Exchange?
I had just related to my companion a happening which I had witnessed some years before when, at a large rifle meeting and in the presence of hundreds of men, a sepoy ran amuck and shot down a native officer and a havildar or sergeant.
I thanked God that we had been able to capture him; for if he had returned and shot his native officer, he would then have run amuck and killed until slain himself.
His very bravery is a sort of moral and intellectual running amuck because he thinks he shall not get Cosette.
The early and celebrated incident of the carronade running amuck shows characteristic neglect of burlesque possibilities (and, as I believe some experts have maintained, of actual ones), but it has the qualities of the Hugonian defects.
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