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"Running away" Quotes from Famous Books

... always in perfect training, the jump offered no difficulties. In an instant he had rejoined her and they were running away from the shack ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... Tiger fell out. The other beasts stood at a distance, in affright, to see the quarrel between the king of beasts and the mighty Tiger. As for the Fox he got as far out of the way as ever he could. But a poor foolish little Fawn, that was always running away from its mother's side, said, "I will make them friends again;" and wanted to run ...

— Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables - Amusement for Good Little Children • Unknown

... of words—the use of the first syllable of a word instead of the whole word. "We cram one syllable and cut off the rest," he said, "as the owl fattened her mice after she had cut off their legs to prevent their running away." One word the Dean seemed especially to hate—mob, which, indeed, was richer by one letter in his day, for he sometimes wrote it mobb. Mob is, of course, quite good English now to describe a disorderly crowd of people, and we should think it very curious if any one used ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... order it seemed to both officers and men; but it was implicitly obeyed. Clark's genius here made another fine strategic flash. He knew that unless he let the scouts go back into the stockade they would escape by running away, and might possibly organize an army of Indians with which to succor Hamilton. But if they were permitted to go inside they could be captured with the rest of the ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... to delve into the past. The first connecting link seemed years ago,—he was running away from something, her hand within his. The girl—yes, he remembered now, but still very indistinctly. But soon with a great influx of joy he recalled that moment at the door when he had realized what she meant to him, then the blind pounding at ...

— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett

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