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1 And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store.
2 Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
3 Of course we was broke up when he run off from home but I see now there was a reason for it.
4 By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.
5 It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
6 He believed that Mrs. Wilson had been running away from her husband, rather than trying to stop any particular car.
7 The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.
8 Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby's party.
9 About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.
10 Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
11 Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.
12 The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.