"Riot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various
... iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snapdragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of Shiraz or of Cashmere never spread. Rarely have I gazed on Flora in such riot, such luxuriance, such self-abandonment to joy. The air was filled with fragrances. Songs of cuckoos and nightingales echoed from the copses on the hill-sides. The sun was out, and dancing over ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... The consequence was, that all the cabmen on the stand outside, and all the vagabond night-idlers in the vagabond neighborhood of the Snuggery, poured into the narrow passage, and got up an impromptu riot of their own with the waiters, who tried, too late, to turn them out. Just as the police were forcing their way through the throng below, Zack and the stranger had fought their way out of the throng above, and had got clear ...
— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins
... a frightful riot, the rumbling of carts, the "Haul all, haul away!" of the shipmen, oaths, songs, steamboat whistles, the bugles and drums in Forts Saint Jean and Saint Nicolas, the bells of the Major, the Accoules, and Saint Victor; with the mistral atop of all, catching up the noises and ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... exclaimed impulsively. "—I mean Mr. Neeland——" a riot of colour flooding her face. But her eager hand remained outstretched. He took it, pressed it lightly, ceremoniously, and, still standing, continued to smile down ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
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