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vb. (en-simple pastrun away)
Usage examples of "ran away".
He saved her life when her horse ran away with her in a carriage, and she fainted in his arms and he carried her home three miles.
He swam along the water's edge calling to the crab general, but when his adversary loomed into sight the prawn was so frightened by this dangerous-looking creature that he ran away and hid in the rocks under the water.
All those considerations of honour and prudence which our hero had lately with so much military wisdom placed as guards over the avenues of his heart, ran away from their posts, and the god of love marched in, in triumph.
As it turned out, Miss Cocoa first met Dalgis about ten years ago when she ran away from her father's serene Albany home.
I remember when I was once interceding with the King for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order, and ran away with.
I should think the latest version must be, that I plotted with Raffles to murder Bulstrode, and ran away from Middlemarch for the purpose.
The killers ran away on a rainy night--they didn't have a car and got soaked dispersing back to their pads.
And that was not so very long ago, for Thebes, in the splendid streets of which Homer wandered and sang to the kings when Memphis, whose ruins are older than history, was its younger rival, was twelve centuries old when Paris ran away with Helen.
A cat sprang from under George Willard's feet and ran away into the night.