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  • The last thing I want is more power-hungry Lunars running rampant in my country.†   (source)
  • This was an era of rampant disease.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, or not, as the case may be, this vice seems to be rampant at our school.†   (source)
  • Rumors of my death have been running rampant, so they send in the team to film me in my hospital bed.†   (source)
  • A man of rampant appetites, Fischer smoked a lot of cannabis (although not while working) and drank more than was healthy.†   (source)
  • In Mexico City, crime is rampant.†   (source)
  • But Lilly's all, "We're going to break the cycle of racism that has been rampant in delis across the five boroughs."†   (source)
  • Preventatives for old age are rampant here.†   (source)
  • They commiserated on rampant misogyny, bad manners, and depressed mothers, whereas Art and she talked to discover new things about themselves and each other.†   (source)
  • Romanticism gave us the notion, rampant throughout the nineteenth century and still with us in the twenty-first, of the dual nature of humanity, that in each of us, no matter how well made or socially groomed, a monstrous Other exists.†   (source)
  • She had seen the images from helicopters, the press conferences, she had heard the statistics, the stories of gangs and rampant crime.†   (source)
  • The Lightwoods have coddled you and let your worst qualities run rampant.†   (source)
  • He had been diagnosing and treating the disease ever since he'd first set foot in Haiti, where nearly everyone was infected and active cases were rampant.†   (source)
  • Instead of working against the poverty or crime that have run rampant over this country, these people have chosen to work against genetic damage.†   (source)
  • Ghosts will run rampant.†   (source)
  • Cockroaches ran rampant.†   (source)
  • Crickets sang in the rampant bushes.†   (source)
  • Between bites, Orik explained, "It is custom, from days when poisoning was rampant among clans, for the host to taste the food first and declare it safe for his guests."†   (source)
  • It's become rampant, Eadlyn, and it's frightening."†   (source)
  • The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall.†   (source)
  • Her beauty, in the fresh-washed print gown, was like a thing released and, as Miss Sessions might have put it, rampant.†   (source)
  • The werewolves existed to prevent the loss of human life, and here was rampant murder being condoned barely outside the packs' borders.†   (source)
  • Oh, most definitely, death was rampant there.†   (source)
  • There's an emergency station under the stands and what the stadium cop has to do is figure out a way to get the stricken man down there without being overrun by a rampant stomping crowd.†   (source)
  • We'd heard that cholera ran rampant because of a nasty water supply.†   (source)
  • With eye disease rampant in northern Pakistan, Mortenson arranged for Dr. Geoff Tabin, an American cataract surgeon, to offer free surgery to sixty elderly patients in Skardu and Gilgit.†   (source)
  • Call it rampant control issues, but I couldn't stand to watch this.†   (source)
  • No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles.†   (source)
  • The devil was rampant.†   (source)
  • Speculation grew rampant among his closest friends.†   (source)
  • Green bottle shards poked up from the mortar at the top of the wall to dissuade intruders—robbery and petty theft were rampant in Addis—though the sight of roses lapping over the wall softened this deterrent.†   (source)
  • I work for the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps and I can see the mental health scene is not good: Depression is rampant.†   (source)
  • The clocks are all set back and the forces of destruction are rampant down below.†   (source)
  • Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but at all levels of society.†   (source)
  • She wanted to hate him for that, for making her a victim of her own rampant passions.†   (source)
  • As to what you know, you've recounted blatant weaknesses and subsequent injustices in our departmental systems, but they are rampant throughout the ministries.†   (source)
  • The sight of your rampant manhood?†   (source)
  • While we packed, speculation was rampant.†   (source)
  • Janza staggered backward, surprise and pain rampant on his face.†   (source)
  • Fear about the global spread of communism is rampant in the United States.†   (source)
  • I wish to address the cause for such changes and quell the misinformation and rumors that I know are rampant.†   (source)
  • He'd been elected to the city council two years before, on his second attempt, and there was rampant talk of a run against the mayor in the next Democratic primary.†   (source)
  • The new national flag flutters there as well, two red bands and a red maple leaf rampant on white, looking like a trademark for margarine of the cheaper variety, or an owl kill in snow.†   (source)
  • Trying to control their mounts, the Bulgarians were unable to reach their weapons, and as the horses bucked, went rampant, sidled, and bumped, a shooting gallery appeared before Alessandro.†   (source)
  • The pilot, having been thoroughly trained in the demands of military security, mastered his rampant curiosity as to the nature and purpose of my bizarre outfit and contented himself with the gloomy comment that he "doubted if the old crate could get airborne, with all that lot aboard."†   (source)
  • Economic discrimination was rampant all over the land.†   (source)
  • In the soft light of the foyer my membrum, betrousered, is truly rampant.†   (source)
  • And as Miss Eckhart's powers shrink and fade away, the young Virgie grows up more rampant, and struggles into some sort of life independent from all the rest.†   (source)
  • … And it was like taking off a pair of unfamiliar glasses: rampant reality.†   (source)
  • Each member of the class had memorized the movie classic, had watched it religiously each time it appeared on television, and had added personal interpretations to the bizarre forces rampant in the spirit-haunted land over the rainbow.†   (source)
  • … Why that place would've turned a Marine into a helpless little flower, or else some kind of wild animal running through the world rampant, or maybe both.†   (source)
  • Attempted bribery and other forms of pressure were rampant.†   (source)
  • A wonderful pavilion it was — and especially now when the light of the setting sun fell upon it — with sides of what looked like yellow silk and cords of crimson and tent-pegs of ivory; and high above it on a pole a banner which bore a red rampant lion fluttering in the breeze which was blowing in their faces from the far-off sea.†   (source)
  • Besides, Victory runs rampant in Olympia.†   (source)
  • He wants fire to run rampant across the Nine Worlds.†   (source)
  • It was an elusive memory—numbing glimpses of wild, rampant violence.†   (source)
  • All I know …. the ghoul Antinous said Victory runs rampant in Olympia.†   (source)
  • Monstrous shapes have been sighted in the woods—rumors of ogres and werewolves are rampant.†   (source)
  • With the rampant confusion everywhere, there were a hundred ways he could get out of Novgorod.†   (source)
  • Just now I can hear the scantest inflection of her Chinese, that rampant hyawr sound.†   (source)
  • There was rampant fear of the enemy within.†   (source)
  • Speculation on Adams's political future was rampant.†   (source)
  • It bore a white unicorn on a grass field, rampant, facing to the dexter.†   (source)
  • Victims of an age of rampant materialism.†   (source)
  • But the collapse of the Soviet Union had created ideal ingredients both for a very large epidemic and for rampant drug resistance within it: a failing tb control system had led to many uncompleted therapies; rising crime had led to overcrowded prisons.†   (source)
  • In 2004, fed up with rampant violence, more than 5,000 Tapachula residents marched in the streets demanding that Mexico establish a death penalty for gangsters.†   (source)
  • Speculation was rampant that Messner and Habeler had sucked oxygen from miniature cylinders hidden in their clothing.†   (source)
  • Huge groups of parentless children have fueled rampant growth in juvenile delinquency and gangs in Honduras, says Glenda Gallardo, principal economist with the United Nations Development Program.†   (source)
  • This only served to further upset me, and I ended the call as quickly as possible, somewhat concerned the woman at the exchange may have been listening in, a practice that is rampant these days.†   (source)
  • There was rampant and blatant corruption, and complete impunity for those who practiced it -- and impunity also for the soldiers who killed and the officers who gave them their orders.†   (source)
  • Demons, rampant in this Godless place.†   (source)
  • Stealing by his troops was rampant.†   (source)
  • She knew some cops got off peeking into bedroom windows, and misuse of the goggles was rampant on all levels.†   (source)
  • And not because of his interest in pornography, which was all too typical and rampant around the base.†   (source)
  • Without the colony's expertise trade will be stymied, a labour force of millions will be in chaos — hunger and disease will be rampant.†   (source)
  • "It may surprise you," said the brigadier, holding his hand up in a gesture of truce, "but I'm not defending the gross stupidities often rampant in Saigon-no one could.†   (source)
  • One hears stories about the China districtthe use of opium is said to be rampant, the young women available for pennies, disease and poverty everywhere for those the railroads left behind once the laying of railroad track reached the ocean.†   (source)
  • Vandalism was rampant as overenthusiastic visitors stole pieces of the president's home to keep as souvenirs.†   (source)
  • He sat in the shade of an elm that was in the last stages of rampant Dutch elm disease, his bottom resting against the frayed straps of a Sears, Roebuck mail-order lawn chair that was in the last stages of useful service.†   (source)
  • Even after their long summer encampment on Staten Island, the British troops, as their officers noted repeatedly, were in excellent health, in striking contrast to the reports of rampant illness among the rebels.†   (source)
  • He had left Columbia believing that misery had been not the sole cause of the mayhem, but a primary cause, a precondition too often neglected by scholars: little or no education for most and, for those who did get it, lessons in brutality; toil and deprivation, hunger and disease and untimely death, including rampant infant mortality, which justified all-but-perpetual pregnancy for women until menopause.†   (source)
  • The police were coming down hard now, clubs out, cops acting without orders or against orders, inevitably, riding their own rampant highs.†   (source)
  • The woman was known to have visited an unnamed island in the Luzon Strait that is off limits to international travellers for reasons of a rampant disease transmitted by unclean eating utensils.†   (source)
  • They were in conflict with each other, to be read emotionally, skin pigments and industrial grays and a rampant red appearing repeatedly through the piece—the red of something released, a burst sac, all blood-pus thickness and runny underyellow.†   (source)
  • If the goddess of victory is running rampant, torn between Greek and Roman, she might make it impossible to bring the two camps together.†   (source)
  • Quite possibly Adams had fallen victim to malaria, which in the heat of summer could be rampant in European seaports.†   (source)
  • Three months before, on March 18, 1780, desperate to curb rampant inflation, Congress had resolved to devalue the dollar.†   (source)
  • RAMPANT INFLATION, shortages of nearly every necessity made the day-to-day struggle at home increasingly difficult.†   (source)
  • But more disturbing to him than almost anything was the view heard in many circles that the old ideal of devotion to the public good had been supplanted by rampant avarice; the love of country, by a love of luxury.†   (source)
  • Then, in May, with the weather unseasonably wet and cold and influenza rampant in the city, Washington was suddenly taken so ill it appeared the one unifying force respected by all was in mortal jeopardy.†   (source)
  • There I sat in a small schoolroom, with a sleeping bag unrolled on the floor beside me, a dinner of beef stew and Gatorade digesting in my stomach, the smell of chalk dust and old textbooks in my nostrils, the wild insect sounds of night rampant in the forest around me, writing a brimstone letter to a man I had met only once, but whom I trusted implicitly to understand, to sympathize, and to act.†   (source)
  • The currents subsided and more of my memories returned, memories of my life as a prince of Amber… No, they are not yours for the asking: they are mine, some vicious and cruel, others perhaps noble-memories going back to my childhood in the great palace of Amber, with the green banner of my father Oberon flaring above it, white unicorn rampant, facing to the dexter.†   (source)
  • The shield, whose cover the horse's hoof had torn, bore, or, a dragon rampant gules.†   (source)
  • The days will be hot, the nights cold, disease will be rampant and chastity nonexistent.†   (source)
  • "A beer-bottle rampant on a field of limburger cheese, gules," said Eugene.†   (source)
  • It was for a shield-cover for Arthur, and had the dragon rampant gules.†   (source)
  • Without the least warning the door flew open, and a whirlwind in human form invaded our privacy, bringing with her a swirl of sables (it was as cold as only an English June day can be) and a hat rampant with slaughtered ospreys.†   (source)
  • Were they not the first to cheer at "Dixie" and the most rampant seekers, in oratory at least, for Yankee blood?†   (source)
  • …a party of English tourists; as he told the tale of his evening at the gaming table, one could see in the roll of his eye just how he had glanced, covertly, over the dwindling pile of chips at his step-father's party; while we had been rolling one another in the mud at football and gorging ourselves with crumpets, Anthony had helped oil fading beauties on sub-tropical sands and had sipped his aperitif in smart little bars, so that the savage we had tamed was still rampant in him.†   (source)
  • It was charged with the impaled arms of her husband and of her father: the dragon rampant of England and the six charming lioncels passant regardant of King Leodegrance, who bore lions on account of his name.†   (source)
  • S.P.U.' emblazoned on my shield, beneath a woman rampant."†   (source)
  • He's got a fever that's rampant in Texas these days, my boy.†   (source)
  • At the Wheatsylvania station they were met by the whole family, rampant.†   (source)
  • All the materialists rampant, all the idolizers of German science and efficiency.†   (source)
  • It was true: demoralization, lethargy, and stupor were rampant.†   (source)
  • But his curiosity was rampant, and several minutes later he was venturing forth on a new quest.†   (source)
  • And hate, liberated, rampant, stalked out unconcealed, ready for blood.†   (source)
  • And my arms a lion rampant.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • There are signs of rampant bad temper in the steerage, and the gossip is going around that Smoke and Henderson have had a fight.†   (source)
  • At last the father pushed open a door and they entered a lighted room in which a large woman was rampant.†   (source)
  • It was a time, for all it enriched the world with yellow treasure, when might was right, when men were hopeless, when death stalked rampant.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • But the beast in the mate was up and rampant, and Wolf Larsen was compelled to brush him away with a back-handed sweep of the arm, gentle enough, apparently, but which hurled Johansen back like a cork, driving his head against the wall with a crash.†   (source)
  • The most complete cases of aggravated idiocy were, to his mind, rampant upon the front platforms of all the street cars.†   (source)
  • The pastor of the Jonathan Edwards Church touched up a sermon about Sin in High Places by a reference to "one who, while like a Czar he pretends to be safeguarding the city from entirely imaginary dangers, yet winks at the secret vice rampant in hidden places; who allies himself with the forces of graft and evil and the thugs who batten on honest but deluded Labor; one who cannot arise, a manly man among men, and say, 'I have a clean heart and clean hands.'†   (source)
  • Then there was stamp collecting, which was always pursued by a few individuals, but occasionally ran rampant as a general obsession.†   (source)
  • He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.†   (source)
  • Gulden was rampant for action.†   (source)
  • Oh! if men by selling their own souls could ride rampant for a term, for how short a term would I barter mine tonight!'†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.†   (source)
  • "Not coming!" said Bob, with a sudden declension in his high spirits; for he had been Tim's blood horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant.†   (source)
  • The growth of the garden seemed to have got quite out of bounds; the weeds had taken advantage of Phoebe's absence, and the long-continued rain, to run rampant over the flowers and kitchen-vegetables.†   (source)
  • With those words he presented another man without a hat, and also with a cigar, and also surrounded with a halo of ale and tobacco smoke, which man, though not so excited as himself, was in a state which would have been akin to lunacy but for its fading into sober method when compared with the rampancy of Mr Pancks.†   (source)
  • These "majority truths" are like last year's cured meat—like rancid, tainted ham; and they are the origin of the moral scurvy that is rampant in our communities.†   (source)
  • One life is sufficient for our present wants; and there may yet be occasion to use Killdeer in behalf of the Sarpent, who has done an untimorsome thing to let them rampant devils so plainly know that he is in their neighborhood.†   (source)
  • As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant.†   (source)
  • Presently she laughed and showed him a small sketch of Jo in her scribbling suit, with the bow rampantly erect upon her cap, and issuing from her mouth the words, 'Genius burns!†   (source)
  • In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband articles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirligigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper gamecocks.†   (source)
  • A rampant hag was she.†   (source)
  • The sign was suspended from a common ale-house post, and represented the figure of a horseman, armed with sabre and pistols, and surmounted by a bear-skin cap, with a fiery animal that he bestrode "rampant."†   (source)
  • "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel."†   (source)
  • Unhappily he had no one to tell him that this was rampant Manichaeism, else he might have seen his error.†   (source)
  • He did his best and did it manfully, but I don't think he found that a pair of rampant boys, a pipe, or even the divine Plato, were very satisfactory substitutes for wife and child at home.†   (source)
  • Although, as far as that goes, I daresay it is not much better in the free West either; the compact majority, and liberal public opinion, and all that infernal old bag of tricks are probably rampant there too.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr. Brooke's own family.†   (source)
  • His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect.†   (source)
  • We passed the rest of the day in pleasant conversation, wandering among his reminiscences of the dear departed days when men were men, and the pernicious weed of civilization was less rampant upon the bonny wild face of the Highlands.†   (source)
  • The grassy clods now calved; now half appeared The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce, The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw In hillocks: The swift stag from under ground Bore up his branching head: Scarce from his mould Behemoth biggest born of earth upheaved His vastness: Fleeced the flocks and bleating rose, As plants: Ambiguous between sea and…†   (source)
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