It was a very lucky thing the runaway had been discovered just before the train came round the corner.
The few seconds of the runawayseemed æons of time to Lady Anne.
Supposing they made a runaway match of it, ma'am, where should we be?
Here I sat, inside my first ship, a smuggler, accepted as a comrade by a harpooner and a runaway English sailor who said his name was Scotty.
I could whip any runaway sailor seventeen years old.
Would I take Scotty, the runaway sailor, to visit the harpooner, on the opium-smuggler Idler?
It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin Islands and my being looted by the runaway apprentices were purple passages.
He was a husky youngster of seventeen, a runaway apprentice, he told me, from an English ship in Australia.
It occurred to her to ask: "What was he like--your runaway mechanic?
If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death.
If any one find a runaway male or female slave in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.
To what purpose did I intrigue with Fortune to grant me a special destiny, if I were thus to be classed with runaway traders or strayed terriers?
So they tell me you have heard from that runaway of yours, Potts.
For among them there are penalties assigned to man-catchers, adulterers, and runaway slaves.
At last, in the dawn, the owner of the runaway boat came down to the beach and missed his property.
Then the story of the runaway boat had to be told for the first time to Granny, who cried a little, but said she would not fret about it now, as Father and Mother were happily come home.
But I have some stories about other animals, and in the next book I'll tell you about "Don, a Runaway Dog; His Many Adventures.
Captain Zelotes made no attempt to follow the runaway couple.
If the unreasonableness of parents and grandparents should crowd them too far, they had always as a last resort, the solution of their problem by way of a runaway marriage.
Since then the Sikkim and Bhotan people have repeatedly fallen out, and Dikkeeling has become a refuge for runaway Bhotanese, and kidnapping is constantly practised on this frontier.
Nimbo was a runaway slave of the latter country, who had been received into Sikkim, and retained there until he took up his quarters at Dorjiling.
I was a runaway from the Venetian galleys, an actor of execrable life.
Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.
Among their companions are ranchers who can't live all the year on the produce of their half-cleared land, absconders from half the Pacific Slope cities, andrunaway sailormen.
They had been recruited in Vancouver, and included a few runaway sailormen.
It was evident that several of the others were runaway sailormen, who have, since the days of Caribou, usually been found in the forefront when there were perilous wagon bridges or dizzy railroad trestles to be built in the Mountain Province.
She was thinking of all that had happened since the day that Bab had stopped Ruth's runaway horses.
The day that Barbara Thurston stopped a pair of runaway horses and saved Ruth Stuart from death she did not dream that she had turned the first page in the history of the "Automobile Girls.
More than once he referred to the saving of his life in the runaway accident, and he never tired of telling those whom he met what the boys had done for him.
We were speaking of the big ditch shortly before the runaway came past," went on Blake, "but that was only a coincidence, of course.
They had a glimpse of the runaway horse dashing straight at the fence barrier.
It was on returning from a pleasant ride that our heroes had seen therunaway with which we are immediately concerned.
It is possible that the next morning the banker had completely forgotten the conversation, and his vinous approval of runaway matches; but, two days later, he was destined to have a rude awaking.
Mr Child's horses, urged to a final effort by the postboys, slowly but surely reduced the interval; and now inch by inch they draw abreast of the runaway chaise.
Through the night the runaway pair were driven to Cobham Hall, in Kent, where, long before morning dawned, an obliging parson had made them man and wife.
Not a trace of therunaway was to be found anywhere.
And from this time no one appeared to be more zealous in the search for the runaway than her abductor.
The Earl of Eldon owes his existence to that runaway exploit which linked the lives of John Scott, the Newcastle tradesman's son, and Miss Surtees, the banker's daughter.
We had heard in Calvert," said John Alvan, "that Ada Ashleigh had made a runaway marriage in Baltimore, for which she was disinherited by her father.
That runawaymarriage was between me and Harry Marston," said Ada.
It must have been at the moment I opened that blow-off cock that part of a runaway train came down the north grade, backward, like a whirlwind and buried my engine and myself, piling up an awful wreck that took fire.
A runaway train crashed into the engine and something exploded and a stream of boiling water came into the room and scalded me beyond recognition.
But if we're going to do any chasing after that runaway it's time we made a start.
I have no taste for overtaking runaway mules on a steep and interminable up-grade.
This to myrunaway steeds, Imagination and Sentiment.
But Williance's performance was not prompted by the pursuing peril of a sheriff's posse, but by a runaway horse at a hunting party.
It was along here, too, just to the east of the Eden, that runaway couples in former days galloped hot foot before their pursuers to Gretna Green, which lies at the farther end of it.
They came to a curve, our hero leading the runaway by some fifty yards, and both running on the tracks at terrific speed.
In the few minutes in which he had been engaged in examining his own wheels the runaway train had gained on him by leaps and bounds.
He unconsciously set to work to calculate how long it would take, at the present rate of comparative progression of his own car and the runaway train, for the inevitable collision to occur.
Strange that we should never be able to get any information about that runaway spoil train," said Phineas, on one of the occasions when Jim went over to Gatun.
Behind him there was the scrunch, the grinding roar, of the long line of steel wheels carrying the runawayspoil train.
But if I can only keep my distance for a while the incline soon lessens, when the pace of the runaway will get slower.
Chapter X A Runaway Giant "What do you think it's all about, Mr. Damon?
A pair of low, folding doors take the place of a lap robe; you dash through the street at an alarming rate without any visible guide, experiencing all the delights of a runaway without any of its dangers.
The frigate Philadelphia was chasing a runaway vessel into the harbor of Tripoli, when she got in shoal water and suddenly ran fast aground on a shelf of rock.
The commanders did nothing but run after the runaway Spaniards, and there is no great honor in that.
Ten minutes later they had overhauled the runaway to some extent, and when half an hour had passed they judged that they were within easy distance.
Do any of these fellows belong to our runaway crew?
They were overhauling the chase without a doubt, and the figure poling the runaway boat looked so harmless there in the moonlight.
I see you,' cried Miss Pecksniff, to the ideal inflicter of a runaway knock.
He was always tender-hearted and kind, and perhaps at this moment may be lying in prison under sentence of death, for taking pity on some miserable black, and helping the poor runaway creetur to escape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runaway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: decided; deserter; disengaged; free; fugitive; hot; loose; refugee; runaway; truant
