"Run through" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... help, though stubborn to reject it: a 'Bias to be saved somehow, in spite of himself, an unforgiving 'Bias, yet still to be rescued. Cai smoked six pipes that night, pondering the problem. He was aroused by the sound of the clock in the hall striking eleven. Before retiring to bed he had a mind to run through his parcel of bonds and securities on the chance—since he and 'Bias had made many small investments by consent and in common—of finding some ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... classic elegance and natural feeling to any equal number of lines from Mr. Southey's Epics or from Mr. Moore's Lalla Rookh. In a more gay and conversational style of writing, we think his Epistle to Lord Byron on his going abroad, is a masterpiece;—and the Feast of the Poets has run through several editions. A light, familiar grace, and mild unpretending pathos are the characteristics of his more sportive or serious writings, whether in poetry or prose. A smile plays round the features of the one; a tear is ready to start from the thoughtful ...
— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt
... slow, as the juice falls drop by drop. This operation may be repeated indefinitely with no injury to the tree. In countries where the liquor is gathered to sell in large quantities, the natives tie bamboo poles from tree to tree, so that an agile man will run through the forest tending the calabashes, emptying them into larger receptacles, and lowering these to the ground, all without ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... robbed him, and compelled him to call him master, was a notorious "gambler," by the name of Elijah Thompson, residing in Maryland. "By his bad habits he had run through with his property, though in society he stood pretty tolerably high amongst some people; then again some didn't like him, he was a mean man, all for himself. He was a man that didn't care anything about his servants, except to get work out of them. When he came where the servants were working, ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... wholly in the Rechna Doab and includes a small well-watered hilly tract, Bajwat, on the borders of Jammu. The Ravi divides Sialkot from Amritsar an the Chenab separates it from Gujrat. The Degh and some smaller torrents run through the district. In the south there is much hard sour clay, part hitherto unculturable. But irrigation from the Upper Chenab Canal will give a new value to it. There are five tahsils, Zafarwal, Sialkot, Daska, Pasrur, and Raya. The chief crop is wheat which is largely ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie
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