Beat a retreat

Usage examples of runaway.

The young engineer, closely followed by Bim, walked for several blocks without seeing or hearing anything of the runaway monkey.

The Window-Cleaner Tells his Name 6 The Search for the Missing Papers 7 The Secret Hiding Place 8 The Thief Escapes 9 The Runaway Coach 10 The Papers Recovered--and Puddleby Again FOREWORD When my husband, Hugh Lofting, wrote and illustrated this story of Pippinella, the green canary, for the New York Herald Tribune his intention was some day to publish the material in book form.

Borsfa Durd was buried coffinless in a chunk of mulch, which ended the fuel-and-food supply for the runaway motorcycles and their keepers.

Hugh, had gotten him a horse, and had fallen into the company of the Champions, saying that he deemed they would go further forth than a sort of sheep-tending churls and the runaways of Upmeads.

This crying on of the hound was called forth by a chase up the street, in which the Goshawk beheld Farina pursue and capture a stalwart runaway, who refused with all his might to be brought back, striving every two and three of his tiptoe steps to turn against the impulse Farina had got on his neck and nether garments.

But had Earl Hakon of Lade been able to look into the future, and see the disasters that awaited him at the hands of this fair haired young viking, he would surely have swept every fiord and channel in Norway in the endeavour to drag the runaway back and bring him to the doom that he had so easily escaped.

Like runaway construction cranes, giraffe clans loped along above great herds of gemsbok and blue wildebeest.

New, taller, more glitzy buildings cast long shadows, but debris and homeless people clogged the places where runaway kids had once congregated.

For the dog, I know it to be the cur of the runaway slave Gurth, a useless fugitive like its master.

Lot of ex-beatniks and hopheads, hodads, hotrodders, dropouts, runaway juvies, and Lord Buckley fans.

In Kish, he would be executed as a runaway slave if anyone recognized him.

The gun itself recoiled with the force of a runaway locomotive, jarring backward a full ten paces to mangle the legs of the two leading horses of the limber team.

Wingfield of the Orangery would have anything to do with a runaway, but Mr.

Wingfield of the Orangery, connected as she was with half the old families of Virginia, and herself a large slave-owner, was beyond suspicion, and no one would venture to suggest that such a lady could have the smallest sympathy for a runaway slave.

So if one phyle shelters runaways from another phyle, it has a possible economic impact which is covered under the CEP.