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Professionally a retriever, and one of great promise, although never fully tested with the gun, his leisure hours, which included every one in the twenty-four, were passed in the invention and perpetration of curiously regulated mischiefs, with all of which he took pains to combine an element of the ludicrous. His great spree was to run amuck into a flock of small children coming out of school.
You can't let him run amuck like this." "Shut up!" Dick said again. In the unnatural light his face looked drawn and almost haggard. "I want to know why he did it. Can't you tell me?" "Oh yes, I can tell you that. He's taken to haunting the place the Court, mind you to lie in wait for the fair Juliet.
He was the first surgeon to advocate primary amputation, in gunshot wounds, of the limbs, and also to introduce the treatment of aneurisms by compression; but he is generally rated as a conservative operator, who favored medication rather than radical operations, where possible. Like many of his predecessors in Europe, Severinus ran amuck with the Holy Inquisition and fled from Naples.
In fact, the giant, the moment he saw Tom, ran to unbar and open the door of the cab on that side. "Master! If no let Koku out, Koku go amuck crazy! No can breathe in here! No can eat! No can sleep!" "The poor fellow!" ejaculated Ned. "What's the matter with him?" asked Mr. Bartholomew, curiously. "Get out, if you want to, Koku. I'll stay by while you kick up your heels."
In all the six years Bruce had possessed Rajah he had never exhibited anything but docility. The elephant was not running amuck, though he might eventually work himself into that blind ungovernable rage. Off like that, without the slightest warning! If Kathlyn could only keep him clear of the trees, for the old rogue would do his best to scrape off the irksome howdah.
He broke, and young Jack had all that he could do, for a time, to keep him from seeing imaginary forms and running amuck over the plain, or else killing himself. Toward morning he succeeded in quieting him, making him drink heartily from a stream and swallow some of the horse-beef. They pushed on. It was a foggy day, and they did not stop.
I wonder if one could persuade one's form to run amuck as a regular thing." "Pity one can't. It seems to me the ideal state of things. Ensures the greatest happiness of the greatest number." "I say! Suppose the school has gone up the river, too, and we meet them! What shall we do?" "Thank them," said Mr. Spence, "most kindly. They've done us well." The school had not gone up the river.
"That Jabberwock makes me sick; he's such an ugly devil," Mangan said, as he put on his hat; and surely that was strange language coming from a grave philosopher who was about to publish a volume on the "Fundamental Fallacies of M. Comte." "But what am I to do, Maurice?" Lionel said, as his friend was leaving. "It's no use asking for his intervention at present; he's simply running amuck."
"On the third day," continued he, "we are to `run amuck, if you know what that is." We had all heard of it. "And on the fourth " "Well? upon the fourth?" "They will roast us!" We might have been more startled at this abrupt declaration had the idea been new to us, but it was not. The probability of such an end had been in our thoughts ever since our capture.
I once heard a young Englishman who had been drawn into some altercation at a continental hotel explain a discreet movement on his own part by saying: 'Now a French cook running amuck with a carving knife in his hand would have bean a nahsty thing to meet, you know. There were no knives in this case, only a woman's tongue.
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