"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 |
