Run Sentence Examples

I didn't run away.

I could have run away from my father, as I wanted to.

The child can't just run off across the country.

Little calf does run and leap in field.

And she set off at a run along the passage.

We thought it was far south over the woods--we who had run to fires before--barn, shop, or dwelling-house, or all together.

What makes families run out?

We can't run sixty miles in an hour, so we make cars.

I don't want to run your life.

I'll teach you to run into the yards!

It would have been easier to run off and leave them.

We were set to run renewed sessions on Saturday but on Thursday Martha telephoned in tears.

She gasped and turned to run, but he reached out and grabbed her.

You're in no condition to run around town.

Then you wouldn't have run off that cliff.

No. We have to stick around and run Econ.

Where has she run off to?

Petya! exclaimed Denisov, having run through the dispatch.

The man was run down by a detective from After.

Yet in reality, five individuals, some joined by love, some nearly strangers and others with a history, that might surface and run amuck.

When all the factories run themselves, when energy is free, when scarcity is ended, when material needs are all met, it will be a different world.

In the past, impetuous young men would drop out of college and run off to join the army.

She was letting her imagination run wild again.

It's not like I'm asking you to run away with me.

Her throat quivered with convulsive sobs and, afraid of weakening and letting the force of her anger run to waste, she turned and rushed headlong up the stairs.

It's been a good run and many lives have been saved.

I was basically told to keep off your back but no one mentioned I should run errands for you.

One of the chairs pushed back from the table, and this was so astonishing and mysterious that Dorothy was almost tempted to run away in fright.

She forced herself to walk, not run, back to the house.

She wanted to run but her feet wouldn't move.

Robert and I will run and jump and hop and dance and swing and talk about birds and flowers and trees and grass and Jumbo and Pearl will go with us.

One fair-haired young soldier of the third company, whom Prince Andrew knew and who had a strap round the calf of one leg, crossed himself, stepped back to get a good run, and plunged into the water; another, a dark noncommissioned officer who was always shaggy, stood up to his waist in the water joyfully wriggling his muscular figure and snorted with satisfaction as he poured the water over his head with hands blackened to the wrists.

He already knew she was here, and it wasn't as though she could run and hide.

I never would have believed he would run off and leave us like that.

He broke into a run when he reached the country road leading away from the compound.

Jesus, how fast can you run?

So he sat down upon the floor of the cave, brought the piglets out one by one, and allowed them to run around as much as they pleased.

There was a beautiful canopy for Ozma and her guests to sit under and watch the people run races and jump and wrestle.

And Croesus was so amazed that he endowed the Oracle at Delphi with all kinds of gifts and planned to run all-important questions by this oracle.

It should know what the food on my fork weighs, run a chemical analysis of every bite I take, and log it in my Digital Echo file for my future reference.

Now they drop out of college and run off to start corporations.

When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grape-vines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass.

Having everyone run her life was getting old.

She had nearly run him down, slapped his face and taken him away from his work in less than twenty-four hours.

Then Howie asked if we'd try to run a session this weekend, long distance, by phone.

I can run naked.

I.ve got to run to the restroom.

You ready to run?

Essentially, we will be able to run as many controlled experiments as we can imagine instantly and for no cost—and that will revolutionize medicine.

The hungrier people were ... the less likely they were to run away.

Alpatych at a gliding trot, only just managing not to run, kept up with him with difficulty.

Eh, Prince! said the trembling voice of Timokhin, who had run up and was looking down on the stretcher.

But the roll of the drums did not make the looting soldiers run in the direction of the drum as formerly, but made them, on the contrary, run farther away.

They want to run to see how they have wounded it.

And he won't run - not even if you flog him.

You've got a inn to run.

She didn't run away!

If you ask it to run your bath, it knows you like the water at 104 degrees.

I do love to run and hop and skip with Robert in bright warm sun.

It melted in her mouth and ran down her throat, soothing it after her screams had run it raw.

I've got an inn to run.

Let's run it from the beginning.

She felt the sudden urge to run again, as far as she could from her past, Talia's death, the bleak future of the White God and his Guardians.

You need it to run away again.

Taran flinched, hands clenching and unclenching as he tried not to reach out to her, to grab her and run to the Springs.

They usually run freely in the pith and Polycycly.

Rostov saw how the Emperor's rather round shoulders shuddered as if a cold shiver had run down them, how his left foot began convulsively tapping the horse's side with the spur, and how the well-trained horse looked round unconcerned and did not stir.

All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.

Suddenly an electric shock seemed to run through Natasha's whole being.

He had only to express a wish and Natasha would jump up and run to fulfill it.

They rounded the corner of the building to see a group of men lounging against the fence, watching a display that made Carmen's blood run cold.

They usually run when they hear you coming.

We can run another test, if you wish.

Would he ditch her and run off with the other woman?

Cassie, if I were the type of man to run away from responsibility, would I be here right now?

You don't need to run from me.

She needed to run away, far away, until this nightmare was over.

You can run for me.

She breathed deeply, struggling to remain in control when all she wanted to do was run for the nearest psych ward and check herself in.

Worse, they'd never run across this type of issue in all their years.

Can.t we just run away, right now?

I run a good office, but I do it my way, but my way isn't good enough now-a-days.

I'll run up and get the box.

She broke into a run, screaming for Katie.

Maybe Alex was simply burned out on raising children after giving up so much for Katie - only to have her run away.

The administrator scan, which only the President or Vice President could run, came back with half a dozen errors.

Let's just um, run for awhile!

Go!  Run with Toby!

She had some errands to run.

I usually run all the errands.

When quick-running metal pinions are used they are arranged to run in closed oil-baths.

On hearing this indifferent voice, Rostov grew frightened at what he was doing; the thought of meeting the Emperor at any moment was so fascinating and consequently so alarming that he was ready to run away, but the official who had questioned him opened the door, and Rostov entered.

He had evidently run out of that room to give vent to the sobs that were choking him.

It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

But I will promise you that I'll never run off and leave you stranded.

It wasn't the first time she had done so, but this morning she had run across some curtains and rugs in the attic.

He squatted and took some of the freshly dug soil in his hand, crushing the lumps and letting the dust run through his fingers.

Somehow, between her and Martha, Quinn and Howie agreed to run a trip back while we remained in New York in phone contact.

If I flushed hundred dollar bills down the toilet, the city of Cleveland would run out of water before I went broke.

Brennan thanked us for the name and said he'd try to run down his whereabouts.

Can you run a background check on her now that we have a last name?

There's a bunch of run away kids; I could try to pick the most likely but none of them look promising.

What do we all do, take those fake papers and run off someplace and start over, or go into hiding?

She couldn't run, couldn't move and she tried hard to convince herself to pass out as the garage door was wrenched open.

You run, they kill you.

He refused to release her, instead pushing her into a painful run up the beach, over the sandbags, and out of immediate danger.

Do you want me to run away so you feel better?

The three creatures made a run for the stairs.

At first, nothing happened, and she readied herself to run.

But you, Rhyn, have somehow managed to kill every mortal you run across!

He'd massacred every human she'd run across to date.

Before you run off and kill your brother, you should probably see her safe.

Her alarm clock woke her at dawn, reminding her it was time for her morning run.

Taken aback by his anger, she watched him run a hand through his hair in an unusual sign of agitation.

Her first instinct was to run back to the shadow world, but she had a hard time looking away from the two hideous creatures battling it out in Hannah.s home.

Ully emerged from the castle, hair mussed and dressed as if for a run.

Ully would run blood tests on Hannah, but he doubted they.d reveal much more than Katie.s had.

There was nowhere she could run from Gabriel, who had orders to bring her and the life within her to Death.

The idea of being stuck on some strange planet made her want to panic and run screaming for the first spaceship she found.

Besides, I've got a bed and breakfast to run.

Martha, who couldn't have run that fast from her trailer if she did have a decent pair of sneakers—which she didn't—was at the door, pulling a sled upon which was piled a bundle far smaller than any ten-year-old's belongings ought to represent.

With our speed, we should be able to run down deer.

With one misstep he knew she would run like a frightened deer.

Let me just run this upstairs, Connor, how about making drinks for us?

All right, let me just run in and get some bread.

The ones he had run into over the years smelled awful, like a wet dog.

Christ, she could give Sarah a run for her money.

When she stood, Jackson held his breath, ready to run.

Let me just run up and change.

They joined Sarah and Connor in the drawing room and related how far Elisabeth had run.

She met his eyes and rasped, "Run," Jackson and Sarah both battled to break free, while Connor fought to remain calm.

He tried to run, but she pounced and clamped onto his neck with her huge fangs.

I didn't run off just because he wanted me to go to college, you know.

Maybe it would be a good idea to run down to Josh's place and call the vet.

I could run a passel of cattle on that land.

Why is it so surprising that I can run yours?

The only reason Alex was here right now was to help Katie run the farm - and maybe convince her to go back to Houston with him.

And run through the fields like a little filly.

How could Katie run off like that?

The new owner must have run out of money.

So the solution is to run away?

The people were doing whatever it took to survive outside the walls, and they'd run across more men in Western uniforms.

Save a little in case you run into any bad guys.

Class loyalties run deep, and he called me up about twenty years ago and said he was calling in a favor my dad owed him.

Maybe. I'll run his name through a few different people.

She'd run into no one in her two weeks and grown comfortable in the forest with Jack.

We can meet up tomorrow at Randolph, unless you can't run that fast.

Next time you shouldn't run through a missile strike.

Shivering, she began to run again on the trail.  She heard the fast moving stream long before she reached it and paused to catch her breath on its bank.

His walk turned to a trot and then a run.  Rhyn ran after him, feeling alive as they raced through the enchanted forest towards a fate he wasn't entirely certain how to handle yet.

Rhyn flung one knife, catching a demon in the eye.  The demon that had been ready to run Kris through dropped, and Kris shot him an angry look.

The black sand had run out.  He'd missed his window.  Rather, he missed this window.  He looked over at the demon standing before him.  At least one of his super-demons had survived.  This one still wore half a face, that of Death's favorite assassin, Gabriel.

He began his ritual of locking up and putting out a bowl of canned cat food for Mrs. Lincoln, who came on the run at the sound of the refrigerator door.

We tried to run him down but he was hush-hush with every­one at World Wide on his new job and where he was going.

Why don't you guys run down the road and get another cup of coffee?

Before Dean could ask her to explain, she added, I gotta run.

After a late lunch on the run, Dean spent most of the after­noon interviewing a burglary victim only three blocks from his Collingswood Avenue home.

The return trip took them past Bascomb Place and as they rounded the corner, Fred yelled "Stop!" so violently Dean thought he was about to run down an unseen nun.

If he called the sta­tion quickly enough they might be able to run down the car.

I didn't mean to butt in and run over here but Randy was worried and....

Dean followed on the run, passing him and reaching the door that was already closed.

Dean was surprised just how tired he was and happy to get a decent night's sleep before tackling the next day's 60-mile run to Pagosa Springs—leg two of the "Ride the Rockies Tour."

Why don't you just run it by me for clarification?

Fred spotted one of them at the hospital in Philly after Arthur Atherton was shot but we couldn't run him down.

He was a son-of-a-bitch to run out on her and his son.

I don't know how long I'll be but I'll run you down later and explain everything.

He wanted to run straight to the police.

We're going to run the buffalo in the north pasture with the goats.

It was alright for him to run away.

The chickens liked their new run, which was purposely left full of weeds.

The run was eight feet high and had a top, so they wouldn't fly out and nothing would get in.

Alex was fast, but he probably wouldn't run.

If she wasn't what he wanted, he might run off when he saw her.

Well, I can assure you I won't run off when I see you.

Sooner or later she and Alex would run smack into the middle of something unpleasant.

It was his place to make decisions, but he wasn't going to run her life.

He stepped into the bedroom, glanced at the mop in her hand and then let his gaze run around the room.

Eventually they would run the Longhorns with the buffalo, and then Brutus could stay with all of them, but the animals would have to be quarantined at first and then allowed to adjust to each other.

If she wants to run away, good riddance.

Alex vaulted the porch rail and hit the ground on the run.

She would run until she died or until someone killed her.

He took a hot shower to soothe the muscle aches and stood in the hot water, letting it run over him.

She didn't say that she thought Damian would run circles around the boy and find a better solution.

He would've turned tail and run.

The village and exterior of the house looked run down and barely out of poverty, but the house's interior was immaculate.

She needed to find Darian, even if she'd rather run as far as she could.

I tried to run away twice, to take us both to the mortal world, where we could start over.

You can't run from me, Jenn, any more than you can run from yourself.

That you could run around killing and threatening them without any kind of retribution?

She wouldn't run from him again.

Unless she stood up to him, she would never learn to run the business.

He'd get over these butterflies about letting her run the business when he discovered she could do it without his direction.

Until then she would have to run it the way she saw fit.

He had been quiet all week, obviously resigned to the fact that she was going to run things her way.

They can run up to 35 mph and they have more stamina than a horse.

These could probably run around 45 miles per hour in a sprint.

Skirting around the guest house, she put Ed to a run until they reached the tree line.

We all needed some clothes and I had a few errands I needed to run.

I'm having an area fenced in so I can let the goats run in there and eat the brush.

They're fencing off an area for the goats to run.

He said he wanted her to be independent and run her own business, but that wasn't what he actually wanted.

If you'll take the wheelbarrow back to the camp, I'll ride Random back a ways and see what made the cow run through brush like that.

She could use one if she was going to run goats again.

In any case, even if Henry had offended her personally, she wouldn't have run to Daddy about it.

I can't run to the beach every time something isn't going my way.

If Denton hadn't come along, would she still be blissfully letting her father run her life?

Probably some run down shack without electricity or running water - and how much of the 40 acres was vertical?

Four weeks should convince everyone, including herself, that she could run her own life.

She was letting her imagination run wild.

After all, her decision to run off to Arkansas might have convinced Keaton that she was something of a daredevil.

She was boring him to death, but he was too polite to drop her off and run.

What do you think we should do, burn all our clothes and run naked through the woods, living like monkeys?

Hold your horses before you wind up with a run away team.

He was able to creep up, snatch a purse and run before anyone registered that the hooded youth ever approached.

Your temporary babysitter was supposed to come by at noon today so I could run through things with her.

Selecting the largest, she went to the pristine sink area, almost afraid to run water for fear of leaving water marks in the stainless steel.

She turned on the faucet and let it run until it was hot enough then filled the bowl.

Still pale, she looked ready to run.

It's possible, I guess, that someone's run across her and catalogued her.

She wanted to run, but her phone was her lifeline.

You've run into another one.

Jessi watched her cousin walk away then break into a run as she crossed the street and headed towards the bookstore.

She shifted, ready to run if she had the chance.

Her hands were clenched in front of her, just in case she had to shove him and run.

He's the kind of person you need to run from, if you ever meet anyone like him.

Or at least, she needed a plan, if she was going to sleep with him, grab the necklace and run.

You've got some enemies that are going to give us a run for our money.

She wanted to run.

It made her want to run even faster.

She'll run to her dear brother, the Black God, who will crush you.

Jessi whirled to run, only to smack into someone else she didn't expect.

Jessi, you need to run!

Pigs and goats, however, with cattle, horses, asses and dogs, have been introduced, have multiplied, and in considerable numbers run wild.

Archimedes died at the capture of Syracuse by Marcellus, 212 B.C. In the general massacre which followed the fall of the city, Archimedes, while engaged in drawing a mathematical figure on the sand, was run through the body by a Roman soldier.

The streets of Valletta, paved with stone, run along and across the ridge, and end on each side towards the water in steep flights of steps.

In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.

In delicate researches two divisions of the scale should always be read, not merely for increased accuracy but to obtain the corrections for " run " from the observations themselves.

There is daily steam communication (often interrupted in bad weather) with Civitavecchia from Golfo degli Aranci (the mail route), and weekly steamers run from Cagliari to Naples, Genoa (via the east coast of the island), Palermo and Tunis, and from Porto Torres to Genoa (calling at Bastia in Corsica and Leghorn) and Leghorn direct.

On crown-greens it is customary to use a small biased wooden jack to give the bowler some clue to the run of the green.

Even if it run into the ditch or be driven in by another bowl, it will yet count as alive.

The played bowl must itself run into the ditch without touching either of the stationary bowls.

At the point of entering the alluvial plain the bed of the Tigris seems to be lower than that of the Euphrates, so that the canals run from the latter to the former stream.

Notwithstanding the shortness of their limbs they run with rapidity.

Steamers run from Grand Rapids, through Lake Winnipeg, up Red river to the city of Winnipeg, important locks having been constructed on the river at St Andrews.

Obstruction met his well-meant efforts to promote the general good, and before twelve months of the presidential term had run public affairs were at a deadlock.

This definition unfortunately ignored the fact that the Andes do not run from north to south in one continuous line, but are separated into cordilleras with valleys between them, and covering in their total breadth a considerable extent of country.

Difference of opinion, therefore, arose as to the interpretation of the protocol, the Argentines insisting that the boundary should run from highest peak to highest peak, the Chileans that it should follow the highest points of the watershed.

Its main lines run from Paris to Calais, via Creil, Amiens and Boulogne, from Paris to Lille, via Creil and Arras, and from Paris to Maubeuge via Creil, Tergnier and St Quentin.

These run in wet seasons, but in every instance for a short distance only, and sooner or later they are lost in sand-hills, where their waters disappear and a line of stunted gum-trees (Eucalyptus rostrata) is all that is present to indicate that there may be even a soakage to mark the abandoned course.

Under the system of grazing practised throughout Australia it is customary to allow sheep, cattle and horses to run at large all the year round within enormous enclosures and to depend entirely upon the natural growth of grass for their subsistence.

Smaller ranges run parallel to the main mountain chain in many places, and there are numerous isolated spurs which have no connexion with either.

Mountain streams furnish important water-power, and the typical factory of Vermont has long been a sawmill run by a water-wheel.

Into the mould left by the saint's body liquid plaster of Paris was run, and a perfect model obtained, showing the features of the youth, the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing.

Algiers maintains communication with Marseilles by a quick service of steamers, which run the 497 miles across the Mediterranean in twenty-eight to thirty hours.

By 1833 the Anti-Masonic movement had run its course, and Seward allied himself with the other opponents of the Jackson Democrats, becoming a Whig.

This distribution is most marked at about 300 fathoms, and disappears at soo fathoms, beyond which depth the lines tend to become parallel and to run east and west, the gradient slowly diminishing.

Beneath the epidermis is a longitudinal layer of muscle-fibres which are separated into four distinct groups by the dorsal, ventral and lateral areas; these are occupied by a continuation of the epidermic layer; in the lateral areas run two thin-walled tubes with clear contents, which unite in the anterior part of the body and open by a pore situated on the ventral surface usually about a quarter or a third of the body length from the anterior end.

A nervous system has been shown to exist in many species, and consists of a perioesophageal ring giving off usually six nerves which run forwards and backwards along the lateral and median lines; these are connected by numerous fine, circular threads in the sub-cuticle.

The speed of these two motions depends much on the length of the span and of the longitudinal run, and on the nature of the work to be done; in certain cases, e.g.

From the lower flange of a suspended !; runway, made of a single I section, run wheels, from the axles of which the transporter is suspended.

When the discharge takes place the ends of the lines of electric force abutting on the wire run down it and are detached in the form of semiloops of electric force which move outwards with their ends on the surface of the earth.

Another method of distribution, largely adopted, is to run the lead cables into the interior of blocks of buildings, and to terminate them there in iron boxes from which the circuits are distributed to the surrounding buildings by means of rubber-covered wires run along the walls.

The men in his works never struck - indeed in 1873-1878 his plant was run at an annual loss of $100,000.

The streets of the city run irregularly up the steep face of the river bluffs.

In upper Italy cattle are principally reared in pens and stalls; in central Italy cattle are allowed to run half wild, the stall system being little practised; in the south and in the islands cattle are kept in the open air, few shelters being provided.

Later criticism, orthodox and heterodox, upon the English deists inclines to charge them with the conception of a divine absentee, who wound up the machine of nature and left it to run untended.

The process carrying the otolith outer side of a or concretion hk, formed by endoderm cells, is tentacle, two enclosed by an upgrowth forming the " vesicle," nerves run round which is not yet quite closed in at the top. the base of the (After Hertwig.) tentacle to it.

Trophosome (only known in one genus), polyps with two tentacles forming a creeping colony; gonosome, free medusae with four, six or more radial canals, giving off one or more lateral branches which run to the margin of the umbrella, with the stomach produced into four, six or more lobes, upon which the gonads are developed; the mouth with four lips or with a folded margin; the tentacles simple, arranged evenly round the margin of the umbrella.

A Roman road may have run past the site; coins, &c., have been found, and the district at any rate was inhabited in Roman times.

As the aerial stem is traced down into the underground rhizome portion, these three mantles die out almost entirelythe central hydrom strand forming the bulk of the cylinder and its elements becoming mixed with thick-walled stereids; at the same time this central hydromstereom strand becomes three-lobed, with deep furrows between the lobes in which the few remaining leptoids run, separated from the central mass by a few starchy cells, the remains of the amylom sheath.

In other cases the leaf-gaps are very broad and long, the meristeles separating them being reduced to comparatively slender strands, while there is present in each gap a network of fine vascular threads, some of which run out to the leaf, while others form cross-connections between these leaf-trace strands and also with the main cauline meristeles.

The importance of transpiration, is, however, so great, that these risks must be run.

It should be remembered that a single complete defoliation of a herbaceous annual may so incapacitate the assimilation that no stores are available for seeds, tubers, &c., for another year, or at most so little that feeble plants only come up. In the case of a tree matters run somewhat differently; most large trees in full foliage have far more assimilatory surface than is immediately necessary, and if the injury is confined to a single year it may be a small event in the life of the tree, but if repeated the cambium, bud-stores and fruiting may all suffer.

The cells of the staminal hairs of Tradescantia air ginica contain a large sap-cavity across which run, in.

In the former they run from east to west; I in the latter from north to south.

In places where the low ground is marshy, roads and railways often follow the ridge-lines of hills, or, as in Finland, the old glacial eskers, which run parallel to the shore.

Three or four piers or sometimes bridges of masonry are run out into the bed of the river, frequently from both sides at once, raising the level of the stream and thus giving a water power sufficient to turn the gigantic wheel or wheels, sometimes almost 40 ft.

Down to this point, the bed of the Euphrates being higher than that of the Tigris, the canals run from the former to the latter, but below this the situation is reversed.

Midhat caused many of the dams to be destroyed and for some years occasional steamers were run between Meskene and Hillah in flood time, from April to August.

It follows that, if, say, five knots of the line run out in 28 seconds, the ship has gone 5X 47± ft.

To "heave the log," a man holds the log-reel over his head (at high speeds the man and portable reel are superseded by a fixed reel and a winch fitted with a brake), and the officer places the peg in the log-ship, which he then throws clear and to windward of the ship, allowing the line to run freely out.

These logs were towed from the ship, but with quick passages and well surveyed coasts, the need arose for a patent log which could be readily consulted from the deck, and from which the distance run under varying speeds could be quickly ascertained.

The molten sulphur accumulates on the sole, whence it is from time to time run out into a square stone receptacle, from which it is ladled into damp poplar-wood moulds and so brought into the shape of truncated cones weighing 110 to 130 lb each.

The other streets run at right angles to one another.

The main streets run north and south and are cut by the Avenida Central; nearly all the streets are narrow and crooked.

But a number of the more brightly coloured ground-beetles run actively in the sunshine.

These segments are very mobile, and as the rove-beetles run along they often curl the abdomen upwards and forwards like the tail of a scorpion.

He was elected to the Norwich School Board in 1899, being the first candidate run by the local Labour party to win a seat on a public body.

The mountains of Fars may be considered as a continuation of the Zagros and run parallel to the shores of the Persian Gulf.

The latter, named the America, was the first to be delivered, reaching New York in January 1829, but one of the others, the Stourbridge Lion, was actually the first practical steam locomotive to run in America, which it did on the 9th of August 1829.

The narrow streets run from north to south for the whole length of the upper town.

But the conception of the equality of the king and his peers in the long run led to hereditary monarchy; for if the king held his kingdom as a fief, like other nobles, the laws of descent which applied to a fief applied to the kingdom, and those laws demanded heredity.

This is the case on genetically modified crops and many other issues where passions run high.

Corporations are run by "officers," comprised of multiple "divisions," and set revenue "targets."

His plays run in every major city in the English-speaking world, and Hollywood makes movies of them—good movies!

I always knew when she wished me to bring her something, and I would run upstairs or anywhere else she indicated.

Oh, it was a lovely and delicate doll! but the little girl's brother, a tall lad, had taken the doll, and set it up in a high tree in the garden, and had run away.

If you liked, we would run and jump and hop and dance, and be very happy.

I can now tell her to bring me a large book or a small plate, to go upstairs slowly, to run fast and to walk quickly.

I can now tell her to go upstairs or down, out of doors or into the house, lock or unlock a door, take or bring objects, sit, stand, walk, run, lie, creep, roll, or climb.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them.

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gauntlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger."

At length the wind rose, the mist increased, and the waves began to run, and the perch leaped much higher than before, half out of water, a hundred black points, three inches long, at once above the surface.

It was worth the while, if only to feel the wind blow on your cheek freely, and see the waves run, and remember the life of mariners.

If they were permanently congealed, and small enough to be clutched, they would, perchance, be carried off by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn the heads of emperors; but being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor.

It probably had never seen a man before; and it soon became quite familiar, and would run over my shoes and up my clothes.

He did not now run with the feeling of doubt and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds.

The French had fallen behind, and just as he looked round the first man changed his run to a walk and, turning, shouted something loudly to a comrade farther back.

Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.

All began to run and bustle, and Rostov saw coming up the road behind him several riders with white plumes in their hats.

But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to the standard.

Why doesn't the red-haired gunner run away as he is unarmed?

But see, those two, though not good-looking, are even more run after.

Berg explained so clearly why he wanted to collect at his house a small but select company, and why this would give him pleasure, and why though he grudged spending money on cards or anything harmful, he was prepared to run into some expense for the sake of good society--that Pierre could not refuse, and promised to come.

Well, run back to her.

Metivier, shrugging his shoulders, went up to Mademoiselle Bourienne who at the sound of shouting had run in from an adjoining room.

Toward the end of the battle of Borodino, Pierre, having run down from Raevski's battery a second time, made his way through a gully to Knyazkovo with a crowd of soldiers, reached the dressing station, and seeing blood and hearing cries and groans hurried on, still entangled in the crowds of soldiers.