761 examples of run for in sentences

"If Frederick had equal forces he would have a reserve just where we shall be in the morningthere at that point marked 'Stone Ridge,' and move a heavy mass to the southwest below McLean's Ford there, where you see the railway runs along the run for a half-mile or more.

Ordinarily it may be quiet enough in Philadelphia on Sunday, but pa found that he had more of a run for his money than at any place we have been so far.

Then Ted heard a halloo behind him and Kalitan's voice: "Run for Chetwoof, quick!"

"Run for assistancequick!" I chanced to meet the bell-boy, and dispatched him in search of a physician.

"If, however, they should be surprised at the water they do not flee at once, but gaze for some time at the intruder, and then go a short way and take another look, and so on until at last they break into a steady run for the cliffs.

"What did you try to run for, Mac?" he demanded.

We got fairly well fixed up by the time we got down to where we had to go to get the rest of our stuff and when we once again touched mother earth and the captain of the boat had touched us we took it on the run for a cafe, and let me tell you the market price on hot drinks closed strong in Harlem that night.

At my remarking my loss, George, who stood near, cried out that he would run for it, and was gone in a moment, being greatly curious to see the spring.

I couldn't run for a week!" Croisset was searching in his pockets.

Away went the ox, and away went the boys after him: it was a run for life on the one side; on the other, a chase for glory.

Everywhere these canals run for thousands of miles across waterless deserts, forming a system and indicating a purpose, the wonderful perfection of which he is never tired of dwelling upon (but which I myself can nowhere perceive).

When he approached the grade he threw off the governor belt, opened the throttle as wide as he could get it, and made a run for the hill.

But they made it easy to me by sending some of their riders in front, so I did well until I saw that by-track and made a run for it.

"That will do; now knock off, my boys, and let us run for it.

Run for your life and get a hot bath and a drop of spirits or you'll catch your death of cold.

But stay, there are many more that run than there be that obtain; therefore he that will have heaven must run for it.

Thus wise are men when they run for corruptible things, and thus shouldst thou do, and thou hast more cause to do so than they, forasmuch as they run for things that last not, but thou for an incorruptible glory.

This montha run for the money.

Many of them seemed prepared, if there was dissension, to disown their womankind and run for it.

In short you get a good run for your money, and that is all about it.

When I came to run for county supervisor, he rehashed the matter without giving any hint that after all what I did was approved of by the people of the county in 1856 when these things took place or that he himself was in it up to the neck!

The ladies seem largely to preponderate both in number and aplomb; the men appearing, for the more part, greatly disposed to run for shelter behind the bolder petticoats; particularly the stablemen.

He seen Shorty lyin' on the ground, and he took a run for Shorty.

How soon they would heave in sight I was unable to reckon, but I dared not run for cover.

Soon after, King Christian met the enemy unexpectedly and was so badly beaten that for the second time he had to run for it, though he held out till nearly all his men had fallen.

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