His aircraft skips over two ditches like a rampagious he-goat; it is a miracle that he has not pancaked long ago. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)
"I'se able to ride any wild hoss, and tinks I can settle de rampagious animile." ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
"You jest stow that, and hold your rampagious cacklin ', or I'll soon make you rattle your ivories to another toon, I reckon, you ugly cuss!" ❋ Unknown (N/A)
They were upon him in an instant, smelling of childhood, copy-books, ink, and rampagious with hunger. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
I suppose it was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do. ❋ F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford (1898)
And that had been the spirit of all of them, those jolly, rampagious lads, plain or handsome, clever or slow. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
'Do you think --' said the other in a tone of singular vibration, which had in it a note of almost contemptuous irritation -- 'do you think _I_ am the man to get and keep a hold on a rampagious class of hundreds of ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
I mean as we deals in that 'ere rampagious helement. ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"You're a mild spring chicken, you are; it is only that wild, rampagious companion of yours that I want you to look after." ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)
Black Sea, but who, it seems, is still rampagious. ❋ Unknown (1863)
I have marked the water twisting over its rampagious walls; ❋ Theodore Martin (1862)
"My horse," interrupted the sergeant, "would have broken clean off if it hadn't a been for your honor: they say he belonged to a muster in Verginny, and I was warned that he was apt to get rampagious when there was anything like a set of sodgers nigh him, and that is about the reason, I expect, why he took it into his head to fall into your company." ❋ Unknown (1852)
It's an observation I have made, that whenever you come across one of these rampagious fellows, that's always for breeding disturbances, the best way is to be as fractious as themselves. ❋ Unknown (1852)
And every soul about the hotel down to the pigeons in the courtyard made friends with Jemmy and the Major, and went lumbering away with them on all sorts of expeditions in all sorts of vehicles drawn by rampagious cart - horses, — with heads and without, — mud for paint and ropes for harness, — and every new friend dressed in blue like a butcher, and every new horse standing on his hind legs wanting to devour and consume every other horse, and every man that had a whip to crack crack-crack-crack-crack-cracking it as if it was a schoolboy with his first. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"She came tearing, rampagious-like, to the camp an hour or so back and put on her fine clothes -- may they cleave with pain to her skin -- to go to the big city. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
"I have often thought that with such a lot of you grown-up girls, and all of you so very rampagious and not a bit inclined to obey or do your lessons nicely, poor Aunt ❋ L. T. Meade (1884)
"Lor ', Miss Laura," rejoined the sympathetic Madden, "there's all manner of provoking things allus happenin 'in this blessed, wicked, rampagious world of ours; only such young ladies as you don't often come across ❋ Unknown (1875)
It's not so badly biled, I will say that for Hannah Cook, though she is rampagious sometimes. " ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
