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Example sentences for "run away"

  • I stopped still, and I believe I trembled; of course I did not turn round or run away; I was not brought up to that.

  • I'm looking for a lost child, a chimney-sweep, that is run away.

  • And you actually don't run away, like all the rest?

  • They are liable to lose sight of the main question in collateral issues, and to be run away with by suggestive speculations.

  • He is run away with by all sorts of fancies and superstitions.

  • Now that I've got you back I'm afraid every time you go out of the house that you'll run away, round the corner, and never come back again.

  • To give way meant to run away, and to run away meant to long for what she could not have, and loneliness and defeat.

  • The question was, must I go back to Covey, or must I now tempt to run away?

  • They went so far as to tell me that I ought to run away, and go to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I would be as free as anybody.

  • To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc.

  • To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

  • When they arrived at last, on the first floor, and the general turned to ring the bell to the right, the prince decided to run away, but a curious incident stopped him momentarily.

  • I am not Tania, you know, and I don't intend to run away.

  • I have long desired to run away, for I have been kept shut up for twenty years, and they are always trying to marry me off.

  • If this keeps up much longer, Maria, I warn you now I'll run away.

  • Oh, it's all foolishness, but I've half a mind to run away, all the same.

  • Your grandson is mortally afraid of you, and he threatens to run away if I let you know where he is.

  • It would be cowardly to run away, and resistance should be from within.

  • As soon as Jack saw her he turned to run away, but she caught him, and dragged him into the castle.

  • When they were safe at home the witch said to the man: 'Look here, old man, we must really kill that sheep lest it run away to the wood again.

  • The old dame had such large teeth that the girl felt frightened and wanted to run away, but the old woman called after her: 'What are you afraid of, dear child?

  • But at the moment when it was least expected the beautiful horse began to plunge and rear and kick, and finally to run away at such a pace that it was impossible to stop him.

  • They both advised me to run away to the north; that I should find friends there, and that I should be free.

  • I then had to regret that I did not at least make the attempt to carry out my resolution to run away; for the chances of success are tenfold greater from the city than from the country.

  • In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.

  • I was afraid that these seemingly good men might use me so; but I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that time I resolved to run away.

  • She ought not to run away; and yet she wished she were away.

  • He is finally only saved because the horses, which are likewise stoned, run away.

  • Finally, when the municipal officers, judges, and royal commissioner commence proceedings against the assassins, they find themselves in such great danger that they are obliged to resign or to run away.

  • Mrs.Holt: Yes, he had to run away, you may be sure.

  • Mrs.Holt: Had to run away, you must understand.

  • No," he said stoutly, "I'm not going to run away.

  • The boy ain't goin' to run away to-night.

  • If you had, I should ASK you to run away," he said.

  • Night after night he fell asleep vowing to run away, to do all sorts of desperate deeds, and morning after morning he went back to that office.

  • Yes, yes; that's this room as I've seen it in my mind ever since I tiptoed through it the night I run away, with my duds in a bundle under my arm.

  • I took in a cat for company 'tother day, but the critter's run away.

  • Susie Taylor is after you and you mustn't run away.

  • Sometimes he was tempted to run away, taking Bos'n with him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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