"Run into" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my girl," he said at last, as he drew his arm yet more tightly about her waist. "You were rash and headstrong. You caused us two days of terrible anxiety, and you might have run into serious difficulties; but your purpose was a good one, even if it was too impetuous and daring for a child like you. We were all blind, Teddy, strangely blind; and I can never forgive myself for my unjust suspicions, nor be glad enough that you stood by your ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... life. It was for this to some extent that I had you followed; for I soon found out that you were on the search for the man who had fired through the window, and who you believed had killed your father, rather than for the jewels. I knew that you might run into danger, and partly because I loved you, and partly because it was possible that it would be essential for that coin and piece of paper to be produced in order that the treasure might be obtained, I kept ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty
... are many brave rivers run into the sea, But the best of them all is Boyne water for me; There Croppies were vanquished and terrified fled, With Jamie the runagate king at their head. When crossing the ford In the name of the ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... into Castle Garden, and knocking at the door of a free swimming bath, they succeeded in finding the boat they wanted, which, after several very narrow escapes from being run into by ferry-boats, running over tugs, swamping row-boats, and grazing barges, took them safely to the pier where the ...
— Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... had fallen, as had the day, into calmness and restfulness. The fiddle, which was never far from Travers, lay now beside him on the deep porch swing, and every few moments he took it up and began an air that broke off almost at once, either to run into ...
— The Place Beyond the Winds • Harriet T. Comstock
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