Ran

Examples

• It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There, I found my mother, very pale and with red eyes: into whose arms I ran, and begged her pardon from my suffering soul. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Opening the door, he spoke a few words quickly but quietly to two females who ran to meet him in the passage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We fought in Segovia at the start of the movement but we were beaten and we ran. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Last night, in Drury Lane lobby, I ran against Sir John Middleton, and when he saw who I wasfor the first time these two monthshe spoke to me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He had no suspicion that they ran any risk of being houseless until morning; had no idea of the truth until long, long afterwards. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He ran his thumbnail around the edge of the box and, opening the lid, handed them to Pablo who took half a dozen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He thanked me and ran to his mother's again--and back again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the Hetton Railway, which ran for a part of its distance through rough country, he used stationary engines wherever he could not secure grades that would make locomotives practicable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

Edited by Johanna