Citations:run

English citations of run

Verb

• 1920, David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus, London: Ballantine, published 1972, →ISBN, page 28:

  The road, very wild and lonely, ran for the greater part of the way near the edge of rather lofty cliffs, within sight of the North Sea.

• 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

  The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”

• 1967, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, May 1976 Bantam edition, →ISBN, pages 8–9:

  It required sixty seconds to run a man's bloodstream. After that: expanded consciousness. Synthetic bliss.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

  Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.

• 1968, Paul Simon, The Boxer (song)

  I was no more than a boy / In the company of strangers / In the quiet of the railway station / Running scared.

• 1972 December 29, Richard Schickel, “Masterpieces underrated and overlooked”, in Life, volume 73, number 25, page 22:

  A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.

• 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

  There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; .

• 2013 May 11, “What a waste”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 12:

  India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.

to run a river

to travel up or down a (turbulent) river, for sport

• 1979, United States. Forest Service. Rocky Mountain Region, Piedra River: Final Environmental Impact Statement & Wild & Scenic River Study, page 74:

  To put it frankly, if you people had to hire others to run the river and survey it for you, if, in short, you can't even run it yourself, why do think you can decide who is and who is not competent? River running, as has been […]

• 2003 January 9, Pam Withers, Raging River, North Vancouver, B.C. : Whitecap Books, →ISBN:

  […] spilled on to his cheeks, warm and stinging. “Why, Jake? Why did Ron run the waterfall in the raft? It's too high for a raft, and the slot is too narrow.” “He was chasing you, Peter. He saw you'd taken his kayak and he […]

• 2019 September 2, Richard Westwood, Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark White-Water Pioneer, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN:

  In the old days nobody ran the river, only a couple of adventurers that you never hardly saw. It was rough, and it was tough. There was no way out and no other boats or helicopters or anything like that. On our boat we were dependent on […]

to travel up or down a river (as a ferry)

• 2001, Turner Publishing, Lawrence Co, AR, Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 25:

  The Minnehaha, Columbia, Pocahontas and George Pope were among some of the steamers that ran the river. Black Rock suffered many severe losses due to fire. 1904 saw the loss of a drugstore owned by C.L. Brown,  […]

• 2013 April 15, Mary Ann Sternberg, Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 62:

  The first steam ferry or tug, the Little Minnie, ran the river in the 1870s. When vehicles were to cross, a barge was affixed to the Minnie to carry them. The Bella Israel, a successor to the Little Minnie, sank in 1894 and 62 Along the […]

• 2014 March 5, Wes Ferguson, Running the River: Secrets of the Sabine, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 22:

  “We run the river pretty hard,” he said. “If, God forbid, you lock a motor up, you give us a call and we'll get you drug out of there.” It was only our second day on the river—our first by ourselves—and already the trip was in peril.

to set a fish-trap in a river to catch spawning fish?

• 2003, Terry Anne Barber, The Super Simple Guide to Waterfalls and Fountains, Tfh Publications Incorporated, →ISBN:

  Unless you live in a warm climate , I recommend that you do not run the waterfall . However , there is a school of thought that by running the waterfall , you will more easily keep a hole open in the ice for your hibernating fish .