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Runaway   /rˈənəwˌeɪ/   Listen
adjective
Runaway  adj.  
1.
Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
2.
Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.


noun
Runaway  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. "Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?"
2.
The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.





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"Runaway" Quotes from Famous Books



... while promptly accepting her, had reserved the right to cast a doubt on its own discrimination. Inquiry, however, established her undoubted connection with a socially reigning family, and explained her recent divorce as the natural result of a runaway match at seventeen; and as nothing was known of Mr. Haskett it was easy to ...
— The Descent of Man and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... and lost his mother early. He was very ill brought up, and was as impetuous and violent as Sir Guy himself, though with much kindliness and generosity. He was only nineteen when he made a runaway marriage with a girl of sixteen, the sister of a violin player, who was at that time in fashion. His father was very much offended, and there was much dreadfully violent conduct on each side. At last, the young man was driven to seek a reconciliation. He brought his wife to Moorworth, and ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Never were two runaway children more glad to be found and restored to their anxious relatives than Monny Gilder and Rachel Guest. As for Bedr, he took his dismissal, with a week's wages, submissively; but the gravest question ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
... three months to Daker. She was a poor girl left alone, with a few hundreds, I apprehend. She would not say much. A runaway match, I concluded. Not a word about her family. When I left Paris, after dinner, he had made no sign. She promised to write to me to Constantinople. I gave her my address in town. I told her Arthur's here would ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... a runaway apprentice, arrived at Birmingham. He says,—'I had never seen more than five towns, Nottingham, Derby, Burton, Lichfield and Walsall. The outskirts of these were composed of wretched dwellings, visibly stamped with ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill


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