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Well, he's a nimble gentleman; set him upon Banks his horse in a saddle rampant, and it is a great question which part of the Centaur shows better tricks.
There are signs of rampant bad temper in the steerage, and the gossip is going around that Smoke and Henderson have had a fight.
Disease was rampant in these houses; when the doors were shut there was no ventilation, and even with the doors open Madeline felt choked and stifled.
His hat was awry, his bright hair rampant, his breast heaving with excitement, while he yet gripped the bulb with every ounce of strength in his body.
One huge fellow, not nimble enough to mount his horse in time, was left in the rear, and was speedily run down by the rampant lion.
Realizing this I dare not presume on her continued friendliness, dare not sit there and lie calmly, filling these men with false information, and permitting imagination to run rampant.
You know nothing about it, you have never thought about it for an instant, and it is the same with all your, companions, but nevertheless, what you suffer in your prestige, in your love of country and of your standard, has no other cause but the social disorder at present rampant in the world.
At the close of the war extravagance reigned, crime was rampant, and against any one of three or four races there was insidious propaganda.
The pure gust of life which runs rampant and riotous in the pages of "Tom Jones" is tempered in "Amelia" by a quieter, sadder tone and a more philosophic vision.
She ate but little, and that little only when urged thereto by Billy, whose appetite was rampant notwithstanding the decorum of his behavior.
Nobody ventured even to hint at the adoption of such a course to a neighbor; with borrowing rampant it was undesirable to be on other than amicable terms with the lady next door.
His forehead was furrowed like a corduroy road and the one rampant question in his mind at the moment seemed to be mired hopelessly between his bushy eyebrows.
His voice, hoarse and broken, carried to the woman's heart the knowledge that the one and overpowering passion of the man's life was rampant within him.
In the forties and fifties florid rhetoric was rampant, especially in the West and South, where taste was less polished than in the older States.
He had been striving to keep his mind in subjection by beating down his monster enemy, pride, for the last six years; but he found that he was still rampant within him.
All unlearned though he was in these wolf-like (or any other) fighting tactics, Jan presented an imposing picture of rampant fury as he wheeled again to face his calmly resourceful enemy.
Troy answered, looking at the old rogue who had disgraced an honorable profession, as he might have looked at a reptile which had just risen rampant at his feet.
Common matter of everyday acceptance which no other paper in town had ever considered as news, became, when trumpeted from between the rampant roosters, vital with interest.
The moment her carriage was outside the gates, a party of rampant students who had escorted it rushed back to the inn, demanded to be shown to her bedroom, swept like a whirlwind upstairs into the room indicated to them, tore up the sheets, and wore them in strips as decorations.
Bull, the last day of Creation, wore a coat covered with heraldic animals in red and gold, and on his crest a man rampant.
Uncle Silas stood behind it with his glasses at a rampant angle on his nose, and Aunt Mary stood in the center of a shuffling, embarrassed, harassed group of farmers in overalls.
Rampant till he has got to be quite as unreasonable and nearly as dangerous as most maniacs, and his friends never cross him, for the same reason that they would hot stir up a mad bull.
Rampant, like rude Boreas, is perpetually playing with the tones of his voice, the creak of his boots, and the bang of his doors.
The theory of the equality of man is rampant in the nursery (though I use this word only in its conventional and figurative sense, for American children do not confine themselves to their nurseries).
Jameson came in, and we knew at once that she was, so to speak, fairly rampant in the field of improvement for our good, or rather the good of the village, for, as I said before, she was now resolved upon the welfare of the village at large, and not that of individuals or even societies.
The lawlessness that is rampant at the extremities of the kingdom shows a weakness in the Central Government which is very reprehensible.
His high, rampant voice, restrained by no fear of consequences, always served as the key-note to the chorus of rebellion.
"I would suggest," said the School-Master, dryly, "that a little rampant jackass would make a good crest for your cakes."
The roots are underground-creeping, which renders this species somewhat awkward to manage when grown with others in a collection of less rampant habit.
We drove noiselessly through the great gates with their stone lions on either side, rampant in wreaths of snow, and up the village street, where life was hardly stirring yet.
The brightness of all clear things will be shrouded, the happiness of all joyful creatures be destroyed, innocence disappear, religion be scoffed from the world, and crime, horror, and war be rampant.
Robbers were forced to become soldiers or be hanged, and as lawlessness was rampant there was no dearth of material to fill up the ranks of the army.
I can't preach the whole sermon to you beforehand, Major; but I don't mind telling you that it will deal with the vice of squabbling which I find rampant in small communities.
Physicians say that in spite of so-called modern prophylaxis and supposed cures, syphilis is still alarmingly common, and other venereal diseases are rampant.
Crushed and maimed in every battle, it yet seems never to be slain; and after a hundred defeats it is at this day as rampant, though happily not so mischievous, as in the time of Galileo.
A lawless nobility kept the country in anarchy, and religious persecution, which had disappeared elsewhere, was still rampant.
Travelers who have journeyed through that country, describe the old Ivy as clinging closely to, and completely covering the walls of ancient castles, and churches, and often it runs rampant over the fields, mounting stone walls, clinging to trees, etc.
Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.
With this man I was continually measuring my strength; and as I conceived that I found, myself woefully wanting, he proved an excellent moral sedative to my else too rampant vanity.
Its plot revolves around an abduction for ransom in a period which is visualized as rampant with piracy because of the general adoption of air transportation.
It is individualism, which is a polite term for rampant selfishness, run mad, a fussy contempt and hatred for the traditions of older nations.
Political corruption and "graft," they said, were rampant everywhere, destroying the country and blighting every enterprise and industry.
To quote his own words, he became rampant with the fresh air, and was reduced to imbecility at the very moment when he specially needed strength, patience and recollection.
This story serves to illustrate the point that political "pulls" and favoritism are rampant in the service, and are the cause of much disgust among officers.
The ego even of a modest man will be somewhat rampant; the ego of a conceited one would, barring its capability for infinite expansion, swell up and bust.
Ever since the days when Joseph's brothers gambled for his coat of many colors when they put him in the pit, the desire to venture in games of chance has been rampant in the human breast, and even "men of the cloth" have proved no exception to the rule.
Peace gleefully jerked off her rampant pink bow, and the older girl deftly tied it among the raven locks of the other orphan.
Burton had returned to the turnip field, but old John Ellis was taking his ease with a rampant political newspaper on the cool verandah of his house.
Drunkenness, idleness, utter disregard for truth, are rampant in Southern Ireland, and therefore Southern Ireland is what it is.
It might almost be said of the age, notwithstanding its immorality and rampant viciousness, that in its eyes a true virgin could do no harm.
The world still maintained its attitude of patronizing condescension or haughty contempt toward the dubious experiment of "broad and rampant democracy."
There is abject want in the city, disease is rampant; people are dying of hunger in the streets and of typhus in the prisons.
This constant unrest bore its fruit in perpetual intrigues, and the censors were appointed to check the rampant canvassing and bribery.
An open octagonal tower is this staircase, with great rampant bays, delicately carved galleries and exquisite sculptured decorations.
The sacraments are rightfully administered in our Churches, pious teachers proclaim the Word purely, and, though magistrates be weak, wickedness is not desperately rampant.
Some are reverent, some are rampant, some are earnest, some are careless, awestruck, excited, but more usually perfectly frivolous; on and on they stream.
The European varieties, also, may be set more closely than the American sorts, since they are seldom such rampant growers.
She, who already appreciated the dangers of a rampant industrialism, will take no further risks with the physique of her population.
Does he consider that our national physique will stand another fifty years of rampant industrialism without fresh country stocks to breed from?
With my unoccupied hand I seized one of hers and brought it down on my rampant member, which was so stiff and unruly that it was ready to burst the bonds which confined it.
He was the very picture of suppressed fire, of rampant energies held in leash: the nerves of the face playing like the ripple on water, the whole frame quivering, and the eyes ablaze.
Dale, put your arms round his waist, and stow away this charming rampant little fellow between the cheeks of Charles' buttocks.
As you may well suppose, my prick was rampant, and almost bursting open my trousers, so that as soon as I unbuttoned, out it flew in all its splendor.
Disorder is rampant, and destruction of property is freely indulged in by the strikers without any apparent fear of molestation.
The grisly shape before him was not a rampant bear, but Manitou-Echo himself, bareheaded, somewhat excited, but not in the least degree short of breath.
This malady, which, as far as I know, has not been diagnosed, invades all circles, and is, curiously enough, rampant among well-born and apparently well-bred people.
All there was of brute in him was rampant, and anything that came in his way would have to bear the brunt of his unbalanced spleen.
Would it be an imputation upon the courage or patriotism of this army if it was not rampant for fight at this particular time and under the existing circumstances?
"I wish these rampant cowboys could have waited till we had our holiday," Jennie grumbled, as she stretched her tired arms.
As they hung at the edge a moment and looked over it, they saw the Pixie watchman standing rampant at the opposite side of the lookout.
The delectable odor of bacon and frying chicken drifted out to him and set his already rampant appetite clamoring for satisfaction.
The whole gamut of vulgarity and poverty in artistic invention seemed herded together here, ready to be let loose in rampant distribution over all the four quarters of the globe.
The Indigo disturbances in the district had given rise to a great deal of violence, litigation, and fraud; forgery and perjury were rampant.
They formed a picturesque bit, clothed during the summer months in their garments of green, for trailing vines were encouraged to run rampant over their sides.
These I must now briefly rehearse, in order to unmask the tyranny that is rampant here no less than in the sacrament of the bread.
The standard of morals is lowered, the public health impaired, disease made rampant, the young are sent into wrong channels, homes are broken up, and extravagance is encouraged.
As the occupants of the carriage changed, he varied this tale, or adorned it with all the shoots of a budding fancy, the more rampant for being held off native speech so long.
Yes, if rebellion has been rampant, and set aside the machinery of a State for a time, there stands the great law to remove the paralysis and revitalize it, and put it on its feet again.
This will check the otherwise rampant propensity to hoard, and prevent the passions of avarice, vanity, and jealousy from making their appearance.
Rampant individualism is of even greater danger in matters of health conservation than in other affairs of public concern, largely on account of the fact that health is too often regarded as a purely personal rather than a most important public asset.
Rampant, swollen, an oncoming charge from the mountains struck a stony vent, transforming a dry, volcanic bed into a running torrent.
All through the eighteenth century, smallpox, typhus, scurvy, and ague were rampant, and it is not till 1834 that we find the beginning of sanitary legislation.
Color in the lighted streets and diversity were everywhere in company with rampant irregularity, for each decorator had worked according to his own sweet will.
And with this merry jest, at the same time recalling to their minds the condition of their own means of conveyance, and also one of the many uses to which the abundance of water could be put when once turned loose, to run rampant across the stretch of barren waste.
We saw rampant filth encircling the street vendors and gutters which ran foul with the discarded carvings of meat markets.
He bore his order of American boyhood with jaunty grace, and the curl had assumed a rampant air in place of the pathetic.
A feeling of burning jealousy becomes rampant wherever there is a case of polygamy to poison the perennial source of domestic felicity.
Rampant vines clambered over the windows and nowhere else in town were there such luxurious weeds as grew in the cottage yard.
With certain varieties it is very difficult to repress the rampant habit of growth and to secure a proper formation of fruit buds.
They weren't in the kennel three days before they had Rampant ate, and nothing only his paws left before me in the morning!
The dog, with short ears and tail rampant, was crouching close to the closed door of the house, uttering low growls as his paws moved toward the threshold.
Celia is so excited that she gets Aunt Ida's bonnet on quite to one side, ties a rampant bow under her right ear, then flies up stage and peeps through curtain on door to see if the men are returning.
Scurvy is rampant among the natives; children, owing to lack of proper food, are dying in great numbers, and dysentery and typhoid are very prevalent.
I have now before me the brass pommel of a sword on which are three triangular shields, two of them charged with a lion rampant, the other with an eagle displayed.
The wife and mother of these three great men has gone from her garden forever; but a tenderness for all that she loved makes them not only care for her flowers, but keeps this rampant guardian of the garden at the kitchen door, just as she kept him when he was a little lamb.
The mandarins were at once rampant; they are not such fools as to spend their revenue in maintaining order, if we Englishmen will do it for nothing.
Tom Kennedy was a gentleman, and Marjory, with her iceberg of a heart would be happy enough in his keeping by and bye; but this rampant, red-faced fool!
She fought with her rampant fear, wrenching away her thoughts from the terror of the death she had chosen, to the terror of the life she was leaving.
I know there is less show of rampant atheism just now than formerly; but if there is less of paroxysm, there is less of life.
She did not thank me with her lips, but when the Things grew too rampant at night she would reprove them sometimes in a stern manner. "Go away!"