"Run into" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to him what had happened, the noise of propellers at varying distances from us overhead led him to state his belief that we had run into a convoy homeward bound to ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
... he cried, embracing me with sincere delight. "But to think that I should have to run into ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... evils of a monarchy, and to the oppression and tyranny to which a people were exposed whose liberties and lives were subject to the despotic control of a single human will. But in order to avoid one extreme, it was not necessary to run into the evils of the other. The disadvantages and dangers of popular control in the management of the affairs of state were scarcely less than those of a despotism. Popular assemblies were always, he said, turbulent, passionate, capricious. ...
— Darius the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... butcher: and she was often hot on their tracks for she had heard her father say, "My wife is upstairs" and had rushed upstairs and searched; and her mother say, "My husband is in the garden," and had run into the garden and hunted. But all these clues only deepened the mystery. They were ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson
... say at all precisely what will come out or what conditions the product issuing will meet with, though they obviously cannot be the same as before the war? For in considering this question, one must run into the account on either side not only the various effects of the war on the soldier-workman, but the altered influences his life will encounter in the future, so far as one can foresee; and this is all ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy
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