When the Athens flight finally left there was a mad stampede into the lounge by the Paris passengers.
Men knock over chairs, their wives trample the makeshift ring in their mad stampede to get out.
Two years of unleashed hell had smashed the land and its people like a princess's doll-things in the path of a mad stampede.
The mad stampede was halted, and then retreat was begun.
There was a mad stampede as husbands and wives charged at each other across the tarmac.
And in the interest of avoiding a mad stampede on the clerk's office, let's do it this way.
And a backward glance revealed the fact that the entire herd, goaded to terror by the tigers behind them, had broken into a mad stampede.
Thoar pointed about them to where lay the bodies of lesser beasts that had been crushed in the mad stampede for safety.
The speeding reptiles did not stop or even slow, they continued their mad stampede, dragging 180 her along thumping and bumping across the soggy earth.
The mad stampede of the Picts had not carried them in that direction.