Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 1, 2025
That convention had run amuck, it was a mass of wild men who were feeling liberty from oppression for the first time and gloried in their new and sudden freedom from ring rule. Then the delegates who came upon their feet roared the unanimous nomination of Archer Converse.
It is the slave who claims to be from another world he who escaped when the thag ran amuck within the amphitheater. But why do you return, having once made good your escape?" "I did not 'escape'," I replied. "I but ran away to avoid the thag, as did others, and coming into a long passage I became confused and lost my way in the foothills beyond Phutra. Only now have I found my way back."
In India, such a one now and then runs amuck, stabbing every one whom he meets: in England, he beats and tramples down those nearest to him, those whom he is most bound to protect. A human community cannot be constituted out of men and brutes, nor ought civilized men to be forced to carry arms or armour for self-defence.
"Seelee will turn out his village and hunt them out of that. They'll never get past him. All we can do is to guard the coast and keep them from breaking back on the plantation and running amuck. Ah, I thought so." Against the jungle gloom of the farther shore, coming from down stream, a small canoe glided. So silently did it move that it was more like an apparition.
In the rickety engine-room something had burst loose under the strain. Now as she sank and reeled there came a hissing of steam; a gasping, coughing, hammering convulsion of pistons, rods and driving shafts, suddenly turned into a junk heap running amuck. It is questionable whether there would have been time to lower away boats had the most perfect discipline and heroism prevailed.
At the sight, the girl burst into helpless tears, and so stood weeping, openly, bitterly, and unashamed. No brain is so well ordered, no emotion so thoroughly controlled, but that under sudden pressure click! the mechanism slips a cog and runs amuck.
A set of Malays drunk with bhang and running amuck, a company of howling dervishes, may possibly, in our own day, go through similar frantic vagaries; but I doubt if any civilized European people but the French would permit and enjoy such scenes.
"It was done this morning." "What, all? Surely not all, Doctor?" "Every soul every woman and child. Think of it the fiends! the devils! The native brought me the news. If I had heard it in the streets of Cawnpore I should have gone mad and seized a sword and run amuck. As it was, I was well nigh out of mind. I could not stay there.
There was so much to talk over, and when they did finally lay themselves down to rest, it was with the conviction that Captain Forest was not quite so mad as they had supposed. He was at least a harmless lunatic and in no danger of running amuck. As for Bessie, the gentle hand of sleep soon closed her eyes, and she slept the sleep of a tired child. With Blanch it was otherwise.
He had depended upon the fortune of the Jewess. What resource for him now? None. In this condition, like one of the Indian gamblers, when they have lost all, and are ready to run amuck on all who may fall in their way, he this night, late, made his appearance at a club where he expected to find me. Fortunately, I was not there; but a gentleman who was, gave me an account of the scene.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking