1 His thoughts were running another way.
2 Anxiety and his swift run made him pant.
3 He moistened his upper lip by running his tongue along it.
4 LILY, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.
5 As Polly was very lively the intention was to give her the run of the young men.
6 My idea is: let a young lad run about and play with young lads of his own age and not be.
7 But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
8 THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.
9 His gaiety seemed to forsake him and, as he came by the railings of the Duke's Lawn, he allowed his hand to run along them.
10 Gabriel could not listen while Mary Jane was playing her Academy piece, full of runs and difficult passages, to the hushed drawing-room.
11 Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
12 She was walking on before him so lightly and so erect that he longed to run after her noiselessly, catch her by the shoulders and say something foolish and affectionate into her ear.
13 Her voice, strong and clear in tone, attacked with great spirit the runs which embellish the air and though she sang very rapidly she did not miss even the smallest of the grace notes.
14 He knew that Mary Jane must be near the end of her piece for she was playing again the opening melody with runs of scales after every bar and while he waited for the end the resentment died down in his heart.
15 Mahony said it would be right skit to run away to sea on one of those big ships and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.
16 Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.
17 This address in the presence of the public, his run upstairs and the porter he had gulped down so hastily confused the man and, as he sat down at his desk to get what was required, he realised how hopeless was the task of finishing his copy of the contract before half past five.
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