To run riot - definition of To run riot by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

While I was allowing my fancy to run riot in wild conjecture on the possible explanation of the strange anomalies which I had so far met with on Mars, Sola returned bearing both food and drink.

A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

The gardener, in a fit of inspiration, put them right along the very front of two borders, and I don't know what his feelings can be now that they are all flowering and the plants behind are completely hidden; but I have learned another lesson, and no future gardener shall be allowed to run riot among my rockets in quite so reckless a fashion.

Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context

In his romantic comedies and comedies of manners Shirley vividly reflects the thoughtless life of the Court of Charles I and of the well-to-do contemporary London citizens and shows how surprisingly far that life had progressed toward the reckless frivolity and abandonment which after the interval of Puritan rule were to run riot in the Restoration period.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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