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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. lii If thou breke thy tedure and ron ryot at large, and knowe nat other mennes goodes from thyne owne.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. Bv Here may ye se how T[indale] runneth ryot of his own wit.

1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 1^v So must I dispraise his methode in writing, which following the course of amarous Poets, dwelleth longest in those pointes, that profit least: and like a wanton whelpe, leaueth the game, to runne riot.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 122 Ye suffer your Tongues to run ryot in bitter Scoffs.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rebel-rout, the Rabble, running Riot.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Cij Sometimes also..he runs riot, like Ovid, and knows not when he has said enough.

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 13 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1214 They ran riot, would not be kept within bounds by their leaders.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 30 To study how they may be employed most effectually to answer some good purpose; that if possible they may never run riot.

1848 Caledonian Mercury 9 Mar. A band of blackguards..ran riot on the property of their neighbours.

1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. 201 Away they go from the wind-freshened lake, whose waves are running riot in the sun.

1961 N. Coward Diary 27 May (2000) 471 She has run riot with patterned wallpapers and rainbow hues in every direction.

1976 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) 28 Nov. 43/3 The Bankies defence..kept Montrose from running riot as they so often threatened.

1998 Good Health Mag. Mar. 82/1 For most of the time, our five-year-old son dominates the household, runs riot, won't sit still for a moment and doesn't make a lot of sense.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 181 If hee cannot by sent finde out the game he seeketh, or if after he hath found it & is in chase, he fall to hunt riot [etc.].

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 76/1 When Hounds run at a whole Herd of Deer,..we say..[they] Run Riot.

1731 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XIV. iv. 104 If the Hounds ran Riot..they are rated off.

1782 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting (new ed.) xiv. 191 Few of them will stop a hound, though he should run riot close beside them.

1809 Sporting Mag. 52/1 The first day they met, at a stag they ran riot, Though C-nn-ng in vain crack'd his whip to keep quiet, For away went the pack in full cry and full view Their game he was royal, to Windsor he flew.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 131 Leaving them..to hunt ‘riot’ unchecked.

1908 L. C. R. Cameron Otters & Otter-hunting x. 113 If hounds will run riot they are more likely to break away in front than to go back.

1955 Times 16 Sept. 12/7 Supposing that on a hot day in a blind country hounds get right away from the hunt staff..and the puppies hunt riot.

2007 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 24 Jan. b1 Sounding the distinctive notes that signal when the hunt is on, when a fox has been spotted, when the hounds are running riot, when the prey has gone to ground.

1781 M. Sherlock Lett. Several Subj. I. xiv. 113 Without it [sc. judgement] imagination runs riot.

1818 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespeare's Plays 72 In the next passage, his imagination runs riot in the mischief he is plotting.

1849 E. Plunkett tr. A. de Lamartine Les Confidences xi. xxii. 232 My friendships, like my feelings, ran riot.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 3/1 It is a case of invention running riot and outbounding restraint.

1915 G. O'Keeffe Let. Oct. in G. O'Keeffe & A. Pollitzer Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 52 You wear out the most precious things you have by letting your emotions and feelings run riot at such a rate.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top (1960) 114 ‘It's the thought of Alice,’ Teddy said, ‘unchaste thoughts are running riot.’

1992 Dancing Times May 751/2 That it verged upon incoherence suggests that Elkins should not allow his wild imagination to run riot.

2007 A. Hill Restyling Factual TV i. 15 Where there is so little to do that arguments abound and negative emotions run riot.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 56 The overwandering ivy and vine This way and that in many a wild festoon Ran riot.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xv. 176 Thus rheumatism runs riot among them.

1958 B. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 365 Famine and disease would run riot through Germany.

1988 R. Tisserand Aromatherapy for Everyone (1990) iv. 92 Blood tests revealed that staphylococci were ‘running riot’.

2009 Sunday Business Post (Ireland) (Nexis) 22 Feb. Obviously, birds prefer hedgerows that are allowed to run riot.