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The foundations were laid at a time when disorder was rampant and anarchy widely prevalent.
They were not so much concerned about the rights of man as about his duties, and their great purpose was to substitute for the visionary idealism of a rampant individualism the authority of law.
The fine flaring up of youth has tended to set sex rampant, but she is not "immoral" save in her mind.
Not only were crime and idolatry rampant, but the death of Josiah was followed by droughts and famine.
We dare say that if their piety is not as rampant, it is quite as good, as that of other people.
With death at his heels, Tarzan thrilled with the joy of such living as this; but would he reach the trees ahead of the rampant death so close behind?
It stands to reason that the management could not get people to face a rampant audience for nothing, and on such occasions the audience certainly goes mad.
"Come, give me no more of your nonsense," he said, and then, as much from vague fear and rampant brutality as from any other reason, again struck her with the whip.
Men advocating equal rights did so at the peril of their lives, for violence and murder were rampant in the land.
If some evils are more obvious and rampant than they were, they are also better known, and the remedy is nearer ...
I think it is apparent that my rampant individualism was pretty effectively hammered out of me, and something else as effectively hammered in.
Very soon after the Civil War, when conditions were chaotic and ignorance was rampant, the ideals constantly held before the race were those of white people.
Bernard rushed forth like so many rampant tigers, and most famous fellows they certainly were.
Violence has been rampant in some localities, and has either been justified or denied by those who could have prevented it.
There was an air of feverish expectation rampant throughout the whole town, and wherever young people got together the talk was of nothing else save the great event on the program for the next day.
Bribery is, of course, rampant among them. Associated closely with the police system, indeed controlling it and the civil administration and everything else, is the military government.
There is a perfectly defined class system in the Philippines, and, between class and class, feeling is not bitter; but within each class jealousy is rampant.
Before the pig came upon her in its rampant and hostile charge, Boyce fired a laser at it split the pig's skull in two.
It is often stated that it is easier for children to preserve their sexual innocence in the country than in the town, and that only in cities is sexuality rampant and conspicuous.
Buchanan, "if you are sure you don't need us, Major," and with a caress on his rampant lock she hurried away.
Around a tall tree that stood on the slope of the hill they found a scene that was uproar rampant.
She glanced across at the top of the major's head which showed a rampant white lock over the edge of his book.
Surely it can be nothing but their rampant curiosity, urging them to live on and on in the hopes of seeing something new and novel, that keeps them from collapsing entirely in the winter.
We knew not that hundreds of the Highland Brigade lay dead, nor that while Kimberley was brimming over with enthusiasm at the prospect of immediate freedom, dismay was rampant everywhere else.
Sedition rampant, treason thinly veiled, and whenever a vacancy occurs in the representation a candidate is returned pledged to the disruption of the realm.
Instead, she eyed him with positive fear, as if she saw no way of escape from his rampant desire.
It was obviously one of the old-time mansions of the big city, preserved in the midst of its grounds in a neighborhood now rampant with new growth.
"Free Love" was rampant and human offspring was cared for by mothers, or at least by such as were willing to assume the task.
Published statistics show that juvenile crime, often of the most revolting kind, is rampant, and has been increasing in Germany, that suicides have become common even amongst the very young.
And then, in regard to sin: no one has ever disputed the fact that sin is rampant in this world, and is deserving of punishment.
Foremost, the dragon, which we already find rampant and busy in mythology and in the Bible.
Diana held the offending papers out in demonstration toward Lyle, indignation rampant in her gesture.
Fair Trade and Foul Play Smuggling at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and right up to the middle of it, was rampant, and was regarded as a wholesome profession by those who carried it on.
It appealed to their rampant patriotism that these men had come from across the sea to join hands with them against common foe.
She made herself busy, when the matter was over, in folding towels and wiping up the pools of water which the rampant children had splashed upon the floor.
We need not suppose that vice was rampant among them, to shock the young and enthusiastic scholar.
All the work of the day was ranged upon them along the wall, and while the painters sat at meat comment and criticism grew rampant, every canvas coming in for its share.
Was it a warrior, who, though victorious, was still engaged in struggling with the foes of his sovereign, the lion rampant was considered a proper emblem of the hero.
The latter is not unlikely to have been written now, when Home's performances were rampant.
The rampant wind blew the half-frozen rain in my face with such force that I could scarcely breathe, while my eyes smarted so under the onslaught that I could see only with great difficulty.
Personal ambition, personal feelings and desires, are not encouraged to grow so rampant there.
Rampant to think that what really are concessions to his weakness are concessions to his wisdom.
Even to-day, when individualism is rampant, art bears traces of its collective, social origin.
Where lights used to be, there are no lights now, and where they were not seen before the war, they are radiant and rampant now.
For an instant there rose rampant in her breast the desire to turn and fly, before another chance should be given Lon to exert his authority over her.
If theories of "Free Love" and Divorce are rampant in our society, the responsibility to a great extent lies with our modern novel.
I must explain why this native weed, of rampant growth and perennial character, is here mentioned as a fit subject for the garden.
And the political and religious differences of opinion, rampant throughout the period, found expression in the most fantastic ways.
Here, again, we see disease and crime rampant in the family history of a man who himself began to manifest criminal tendencies at a very early age.
The city had been fired in several places; and a gale spread the flames with rampant speed.
From the middle to the end of the nineteenth century the scientific idea was rampant, and during that period it is probable that the worst voice teaching in the history of the world was done.
It is one of the superstitions left us by the wretched eighteenth century, a period when aristocracy was rampant throughout Christendom; and what were the consequences?
It was rampant with energy, energy flowed from it, and the air about was glowing with ionization.
He commenced to imitate the drawing of a certain rampant lion that especially took his fancy.
What with all this socialism rampant, they seem so happy at the idea of being able to do one of us an injury that they give heavy damages without it.
The Raffles in me is rampant when I look at those jewels and think of what they will mean if I keep them.
The bacillus of the Nonconformist Conscience was rampant a short time ago, and it has not yet been stamped out.
It makes my blood boil, and so, since it is rampant here, and everybody has been unjust to me, I have made up my mind to pay them back in their own coin.
He further consoled himself, on reaching the court below, by uttering a shriek which sent a cat that chanced to be reposing there in rampant alarm into the depths of a convenient cellar.
Where anarchy, murder, injustice, and tyranny are rampant and triumphant, the advance of the missionary is either terribly slow or altogether impossible.
It is rampant when you are not here; but when you are present it stays quiet mostly, just because I love you.
The two men were equally blank with fear and each seemed to seek in the other some newly rampant manhood upon which he could lean at this time.
Leech's sympathy for horses was natural to the man, and had no little influence in toning down those rampant ideas of Democracy and Socialism to which Thackeray referred.
His broad-brimmed hat hung down his back, held around his chin by its elastic, and his golden hair was rampant.
It is always present, and the selfish desire, made rampant by a society which craves amusement, will always be stronger than any social argument or any talk of possible individual danger.
It is of strong and healthy growth, and rampant in its habit, thus making it useful where the large-flowered kinds have proved defective, as none of them are of what may be called free growth.
From beneath the protecting folds of the handkerchief appeared a white satin frame with hand-painted violets rampant.
You have both learned your lesson, and the lion rampant and he of the straight tail will both be reined up better another time.
For many reasons intimate to the Scot's character, envious scandal is rampant in petty towns such as Barbie.
My spouse is now pacing up and down the room in a rampant manner, complaining of his dinner, the world in general, and me in particular.
In this district there was but little of the Covenanting feeling that was rampant in the West.
They see rampant piracy as a reality and the threat to fair use as some kind of academic hypothetical rarely encountered in reality.
These were truly the days of darkness, when abuses were kept out of sight and were rampant.
Among the Berbers there is plenty of throat-cutting as a legal punishment, and murder on the score of private vengeance, while Government oppression is rampant.
Some copies in one of the plates, where there is a tavern sign, have on the board a lion rampant.
There ought to be somebody in a house who can be disagreeable by spells, or the rest of the world'd grow rampant.
The pioneer days had passed away, and civilization and prosperity were rampant in the land.
It shows the scholar and the practiced writer amid all its rampant energy, and many passages are full of eloquence.
Is this, or is it not, the age of scientific marvels, levelling of castes, rampant communism, murder, agrarian outrage, sudden massacre?
The vine is easily propagated and is adapted to any good grape soil, but is so rampant in growth that it is difficult to manage.
We now partook of some spiced wine, which had the effect of entirely restoring our energies, and our rampant instruments proved that we were quite ready for another engagement in the courts of Venus.
And its flag shall be a "shield of David," with the Lion of Judah rampant, and twelve stars for the Tribes.
These last fond words were addressed to my prick, which, already rampant again, was claiming attention.
I had again become rampant, and keeping myself more erect, with a hand on either immense hip, I devoured with greedy eyes all the glories beneath my gaze.
I threw myself on her belly, and with one vigorous shove drove my rampant prick up to the hilt, making her all shake again.
Then she shifted her position lower down, until just above my prick, which by this time was rampant with desire.
The love of horses is common to most men, but it is dominant in the West, and rampant in the mounted soldier.
Competition of a more or less serious nature was still rampant, rates were cut, and traffic was pretty freely diverted by dubious means.
For my fear is the fear of long ago, the fear that was rampant in the Younger World, and in the youth of the Younger World.
"Perjury is now rampant in all our Courts and there seems to be no way of preventing it," declares a well-known judge.
While all the others of us in the garden rest and sit in comfort a moment, upon the summit of the summer, it is as rampant and vicious as ever.
Was it not assuming a terrible responsibility to send this rampant sinner to his long account?
Oh, Herbert, do you know that this is a rampant spring, and that on leaving Barbara I tramped out of the confines into the green, happier, it almost seems, than I have ever been?
Came noon, and they again proceeded to enjoy a snack, for appetites have a habit of growing rampant despite any lack of expenditure in the way of muscular activity.
Upon this, of blue enamel, cracked and chipped with age and usage, was the figure of a lion rampant, a royal crown upon its head.
Remaining here for the night, early in the morning we moved forward; but not until we had destroyed the property of the rampant Rebels who resided in the place.
You can look on and see Abolitionism getting rampant in this once proud city, and not lift a voice or a finger to save us from ruin!
Lancelot at this armed himself and went to the gate, where the lions rose rampant against him.
From this height above the planet's surface, not even the most powerful telescope would have revealed the scenes of rampant disease and flaming destruction being enacted on the broad continents below.
It is likewise capable of infinite modifications under stress, such as glacial flow, cessation of moisture, loss of sunlight ... or, the rampant onslaught of bacterial disease.