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Updated: May 1, 2025
I made straight for the great Klang gambling house, and when I reached the door, I halted for the space of an eye-flick, and spilled the scent over my hand and arm as far as the elbow. Then I rushed in among the gamblers, suddenly and without warning, stepping like a fencer in the sword-dance and crying "Amok! Amok!" till the coins danced upon the gaming tables.
Only an infinitesimal fraction of time elapsed between the spectacle of Mr Birdsey, indignant but inactive, and Mr Birdsey berserk, seeing red, frankly and undisguisedly running amok. The transformation took place in the space of time required for the lighting of a match. Even as the match gave out its flame, Mr Birdsey sprang.
He steadied to that better than I hoped, steadied to the baby's death, and steadied to the reproaches she considerately heaped on him for her parting gift." "Reproaches?" "Yes. She told him that he was to blame for the whole situation; that, if he hadn't run amok, she would be jogging contentedly along the path of ancestral Calvinism.
I was particularly struck by the bearing of these men, their bold, free carriage and fearless expression of countenance. Dress of the people. Butchery of carabao. Prisoner runs amok and is killed. It was now drawing near midday, and as though by common understanding we all separated to get something to eat.
Then he seemed to run amok among a number of imaginary people, pulling out his boomerang, pretending to cock it, and shooting in all directions, ending by making a furious rush at Bostock, making believe to drag him to the hatchway, where he took out his club, struck one tremendous blow and clapped down the trap-door.
These were oddly enough invariably lady-elephants, the males being apt to lose their heads in the excitement of meeting their hereditary enemies, and consequently apt to run amok. My particular elephant, which I rode daily for five weeks, was an elderly and highly respectable female named "Chota Begum."
Like babies and lunatics, Archie has his good and bad days. If low clouds are about and he can only see through the gaps he is not very troublesome. Mist also helps to keep him quiet. He breaks out badly when the sky is a cover of unbroken blue, though the sun sometimes dazzles him, so that he fires amok.
"With all these mere boys going to the most dreadful deaths in the trenches, with death, hardship and separation running amok in the world " "One has to do something," she agreed. "I know, dear," he said, "that all this year of doubt and change has been a dreadful year for you." "It was stupid of me," she said, "but I have been so unhappy. It's over now but I was wretched.
Amongst the Maniagri, women, especially the very aged, are the chief sufferers from this malady; and instances, moreover, of men who were affected by it are likewise known to me. It is worthy of remark that those women who returned home on account of this sickness were notwithstanding strong, and in all other respects enjoyed good health." Instances of Amok seem to occur also in the Philippines.
I served in that Alexandria affair, under Charlie Beresford. "Well, as I was saying, . . . Gully came into my surgery that day, raving like a madman. He's a big, powerful devil, as you know. I'll confess I was a bit dubious about him watched him pretty close for a few minutes, for he acted as if he might start running amok.
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