We heard yesterday evening that your runaways had worked their way to Muganga, telling the people they were sent by me.
During the escape of Deane from Stanley Falls, these Houssas had precipitately retreated into a canoe, and had floated as far as Upoto when they were captured as runaways by the natives of the district.
Even the night on Fessenden's Island was not able, as Joseph had felt confident that it would be, to withdraw her thoughts from the runaways to their own tender affairs.
If Washington ever had to fight with runaways like you two, I pity him!
By the time the runaways reached Union Square, a long mob of people were tearing after them, all in hot pursuit of the villains.
The runawayshad abandoned all thought of joining the excursion to the Rhine; and "how to get away" was an exciting topic to them.
The runaways in the gig were driven to the deck, as their companions had been, while Perth was handed up by the grim Peaks, put in his berth, and attended by Dr.
In the first cutter's crew were three of the runaways, who had taken the opportunity to communicate with Adler, Phillips, and other of the runaways in the consort.
I thought you intended to stay down here," said Raymond, who concluded that the runaways were very fickle in their purposes.
Before night the original order on board both vessels was restored, and again the runaways mingled with the faithful ones.
So therunaways could only grumble and growl, and watch the steamers which were constantly arriving and departing.
Howe was perhaps nearer the truth than he really believed when he declared that Mr. Lowington would not dare to leave the runaways on board of either vessel in charge of any other person than the vice-principal.
The runaways were among those who regarded the present lecture--since they did not expect to visit Germany--as an intolerable nuisance.
The runaways perhaps experienced a feeling of relief that they were no longer in danger of being watched and overheard by the "lambs.
The runaways had taken pains to disseminate this idea among the crew, as they had also succeeded in involving the whole of them in the mischief which induced the principal to go to sea that night.
As the ruffian leaped into the boat, to which he had been assigned, Perth gave the order to shove off, and the runaways pulled with all their might for the shore.
By this time the runaways thought it prudent to keep out of sight, and all of them retired to their rooms, and most of them to their berths.
In the boats the runaways were pulling with all their might to get out of sight of the Josephine before the officers should set themselves at liberty.
The moon shone brightly on the deserted deck of the Josephine after the runaways had departed in the four boats,--deserted by all save Bitts, who was endeavoring to free himself from the rope by which he had been secured.
We ain't goin' ter give the runaways no rest, you see.
And my feet wouldn't touch the mud, and when the runaways looked into my face, they'd try to be good and go back to their masters.
Up he jumped to his feet, holding his long-handled butterfly net, and staring at the approaching runawaysthrough his big glasses.
I’ve caught some runaways in my time, but never better than that.
Just where the canal came to an end, the highway curved abruptly, and it was not hard to guess what would happen if the runaways were not checked.
Trouble was also constantly arising between the French and English, or French and Dutch, in regard to the many runaways who fled from the Eastern colonies northward to Canada.
Yet without national machinery for the recapture ofrunaways the institution could not have long been maintained.
Southern members "considered it a great injury to the owners of that species of property, that runaways were employed in the Middle and Northern States, and even assisted in procuring a living.
Runaways resisting may be killed or wounded, and if they die from the effects of a wound the public shall pay the owner, but the person inflicting the injury is not to be questioned.
Penalty for entertaining runaways increased to sixty pounds of tobacco for every day and night he or they shall be harbored.
Runaways may be let out to hire by the keeper of the gaol.
Those who take up Runaways and carry them back to have 15s.
When seized, runaways were to be whipped and placed in the county gaol.
Be it therefore enacted and confirmed that all runaways that shall absent themselves from their said master's service shall be lyable to make satisfaction by service at the end of their tymes by indenture (vizt.
It was ordered that the county of Glocester have the power to make such laws for the recovering of runaways as shall be found necessary and convenient.
Reward for apprehending runaways is reduced to two hundred pounds of tobacco.
What was the shade of hair worn by the runaways of the strawberry patch?
If the runaways are here to-night they will be here to-morrow.
He was also just as thoroughly convinced that the runaways had already started on a new trail, and were beyond his reach.
We rode on, skirting the forest as long as we had sufficient light to distinguish objects at any distance, still with the hope that we might find the runaways encamped, in case they should not have seen us.
I found the runaways with no trouble whatever, for their trail was nowhere faint, turned them easily and brought them back, manifestly, much sooner than he had hoped.
This act prevented runaways from securing work on a steamboat with the specific purpose of leaving once they were on free soil.
His offense had merely consisted in helping runawaysalong the "underground railroad," once they were on free soil.
Troutman came from Kentucky to Michigan to bring back six runaways that had been located at Marshall.
The Kentucky officials had always been confronted with the problem of recovering runaways captured in Ohio, even when they personally knew the captive.
Then it was only to say: "Runaways went by here before night man could get to switch and open it.
Sped by the wind, the runaways passed Davis, though not at half their highest speed.
So it seemed to him, their own speed was so great, and the runawayswere almost equalling it.
Set brakes hard on your empties on siding, to spillrunaways if possible.
The sand poured on the rails, and with Burns up on the coalers setting brakes, the three great runaways were brought to with a jerk that would have astounded the most reckless scapegraces in the world.
Despite therunaways of the morning, the popular enthusiasm did not flag.
These lamentations of runaways moved only a few companies of the centre.
The runaways from the Batignolles arriving at ten o'clock only brought in panic.
The runaways of the two sieges, the demonstrators of the Place Vendome, many emigrants of Versailles, had again taken possession of the boulevards.
The curve of truancies and runaways increases in a marked ratio at puberty, which probably represents the age of natural majority among primitive people.
It was a common thing for speculators in slaves to purchase runaways for much less than their original value, and take the risk of not being able to catch them.
Pennsylvania being on the frontier of the slave states, runaways were often passing through; and the laws on that subject were little understood, and less attended to.
Runaways there may be, of course," replied Paganel, "but not those who have been transported and regularly received.
The settlers had heard of the accident at Camden Bridge, but the band of runaways gave no uneasiness, they would not dare to attack a station that was guarded by more than a hundred men.
It may interest our readers to learn that among the runaways were the two Kafirs, Muntiwa and Booi, who were tried at the Circuit Court recently held here, and sentenced to seven years' hard labour each for stock-stealing.
The runaways have taken refuge in the Umtirara range, from whose dense and rugged fastnesses they will, we fear, long be able to defy the best efforts of the wholly inadequate police force at present at the disposal of the district.
Next morning early, the runaways visited an outlying vij-kraal belonging to a Dutch farmer named Van Wyk, and there perpetrated a peculiarly atrocious murder.
New York was so near Ashton that the runaways arrived there more than an hour before the telegram was sent, otherwise they would have been returned to their homes the same evening.
He had struck the trail of the runaways in Jersey City, and when he learned of three boys that had left the train at New Brunswick, he was certain they were the young rogues whom he was looking for.
That gentleman was surprised to find he had forgotten to lock the stable-door, but such was the fact, and a brief search brought the runaways to light.
And the next minute the head and shoulders of a burly man rose to view, and the runawayswere discovered.
The first thing done, upon reaching New Brunswick, was to telegraph to Mr. Wagstaff that the runaways were found, with no harm having befallen them, and they might be expected home that evening.
Inasmuch as it would have involved considerable delay to bring the scamp to trial and conviction, besides getting the names of the runaways in the papers, Chief Hungerford took his satisfaction out of the tramp personally.
Many anecdotes are told of the search for runaways on the lake steamers.
The state of the ground they were examining was now favourable for receiving a permanent impression; and, as none appeared, they became satisfied that the runaways had not returned that way.
The boer declared himself willing to furnish horses and men for a search, if the hunters could ascertain, with any certainty, the direction the runaways had taken.
His excuse for not making more haste to provide help was, that no one could tell the direction in which the runaways had gone, and that to search for them in the north, when the animals might have strayed south, was sheer silliness.
As runaways they may have been different from most.
The canalboat was high out of the water, for its hold was empty; but the runaways climbed aboard easily.
Just at this time something occurred that startled both runaways so greatly that they even forgot the thunder that rolled so threateningly.
After leaving the store the runaways seemed to have utterly disappeared.
But, then, Sammy and Dot were very modernrunaways indeed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runaways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
