"Amok" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... run amok with a kris and sent men howling; With a kukri I've killed my prey; I'm an amateur still—I admit it—at disembow'ling, But I've settled a few that way; And I mind me well (for I still can sniff the aroma Of that particular fray) How I quartered and cut into ribbons some beggars at Boma On ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 • Various
... the hot blood was pounding in his head. He felt as he imagined madmen did when about to run amok. Or quite as primitive as any ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... his hat,' he murmured. 'It seems to me that this is practically a case of running amok. And now to break the news to ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... drunken diablerie of the Doorga Pooja; the monstrous human sacrifices of the Khonds and Bheels; the dreadful rites of the Janni before the gory altar of the Earth goddess; the indiscriminate slashing and stabbing of the Amok; the shuddering dodges of the plague-chased Cavrite; the grim and lonely duels of the French lion-killer under the melancholy stars; the carrion-like exposures of the Parsee dead; the nightmarish legends of the Evil Eye. But my hope is to part with them ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various
... great justice in what Lord Kitchener says," remarked His Majesty of Austria. "We must not forget that if this man Castellan did run amok with any of those diabolical contrivances of his, he would be just as much above human law as he would be outside human reach. I must confess that that appears to me to be one of the most serious features in the situation. Your Majesties, ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith
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