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Run away

verb

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail. "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

Escape from the control of.

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"Run away" Quotes from Famous Books

... "I've found him! Oh you naughty boy, to make me suffer sich distress on your account! Come home, dear, come!" With these and more incoherent exclamations, the young woman burst out crying, and told the onlookers that Oliver was her brother, who had run away from his respectable parents a month ago, joined a gang of thieves and almost broke his mother's heart,—to which Oliver, greatly alarmed, replied that he was an orphan, had no sister, and lived at Pentonville. Then, catching sight of the woman's face ...

— Ten Boys from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... night the best way I could. I had the owls again for company, and some varmint came up and smelt at the bars; but was frightened at my voice, and run away again. I suppose it war a fox or wolf, or some such thing, and but for me would a-made a meal off ...

— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... that Murray uttered, they seemed to pass him by as if spoken to some other person. His heart was beating very hard, and he breathed uneasily. An unfamiliar, impersonal voice within himself was telling him that he must either give Murray a good licking then and there or run away. Nasty, ugly, hateful words seemed to crowd to his lips with an all ...

— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

... kill Abe and me," he said to himself, "and run away with the pearls. If they had determined to be honest men, and we had secured any particular amount of wealth, they would have been rewarded liberally. ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... queen who has run away from a kingdom?" asked Kitty bitterly. "One reads about them every day ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

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