Do we say run the gamut or run the gauntlet

run the gamut 3 occurrences

Yet there comes in every married woman's existence that time when she realizes, suddenly, that her husband has a past which might be taken as, in itself, a complete and rounded lifeas a life which had run the gamut of all ordinary human passions, and had become familiar with all ordinary human passions a dishearteningly long while before she ever came into that life.

You're bound to run the gamut of all the emotions, sometime and somewhere.

Friends had betrayed and deserted him; relatives had forgotten him; merchants had failed with his money; bank presidents had stooped to deceive him; for he was an old man, and had about run the gamut of human disappointmentsa gamut that had begun with a C major of trust, hope, happiness, and money.

run the gauntlet 56 occurrences

When the railway was in running order trains had to run the gauntlet of shell-fire on this section on bright moonlight nights, and no camouflage could hide them.

The planter said they usually had a lynching when the dogs made a run, but that was impossible in this case, so he suggested that they make me run the gauntlet.

The long tables were crowded, and they had to run the gauntlet of many eyes as they made their way to the head of the upper table.

bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger, place in jeopardy, put in jeopardy &c n.; endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard^, jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind &c (rash) 863. adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the gauntlet &c (dare) 861; engage in a forlorn hope.

He was made to "run the gauntlet" and severely beaten.

She would have run the gauntlet of a London season without definite result; and this, to a young woman so impressed with her own transcendent merits, was a most humiliating state of things.

At the close of the letter, he says,"Although the Borough is a beastly place in dirt, turnings, and windings, yet No. 8, Dean Street, is not difficult to find; and if you would run the gauntlet over London Bridge, take the first turning to the left, and then the first to the right, and, moreover, knock at my door, which is nearly opposite a meeting, you would do me a charity, which, as St. Paul saith, is the father of all the virtues.

He had once been in the army, and as he had run the gauntlet himself, he could make excuses for the wild pranks of young men.

The troops that were landed had to run the gauntlet for fully fifty yards before reaching the cover of the scrub on the cliff, and matters were worse still for the bluejackets pulling the empty boats back to the ships.

'Remember we have to run the gauntlet all the way down.'

In order to reach either the eastern, or the southern, it would be necessary to pass within gun-shot of the Reef, and, what was more, to run the gauntlet between the crater and the Rancocus.

A farmer named Igier, hearing the stampede of his cattle, tried to save these poor beasts, but he had to run the gauntlet of soldiers who shot at him as he stumbled through the smoke, missing him only by a hair's-breadth, so that he escaped as by a miracle, with five holes in his clothes.

At every doorway he had to run the gauntlet of lithe and implacable managing directors, all ready to pounce on him, drag him within and chain him permanently to a stoolwith the complete approval of the Army Council.

Next, volunteers to "Run the Gauntlet" may be called for.

After the consent of the girl and her parents has been obtained, one more ordeal remains; the bridal couple have to run the gauntlet of the mischievous village boys, who stand ready with sooted hands to begrime their faces and bodies; and generally they succeed so well that bride and groom present the appearance of negroes.

Next morning he was led out to run the gauntlet.

At each place he was tied to the stake, to be switched and beaten by the women and boys; or else was forced to run the gauntlet, while sand was thrown in his eyes and guns loaded with powder fired against his body to burn his flesh.

At last, after having run the gauntlet eight times and been thrice tied to the stake, he was ransomed by some traders.

Suddenly all the warriors arranged themselves into two long lines, facing each otherand, brandishing their tomahawks, switches, and clubs, called upon Tom to run the gauntlet!

It has run the gauntlet of all the Saxon, Danish, Scotch and Norman raids and regimes.

We again had to run the gauntlet of the narrow passage and have our tickets looked over, and this time a new stowaway was found, and he straightway made application for a job.

Reaching the house, they hurried up stairs, hoping to run the gauntlet of the three floors in safety.

Thus we run the gauntlet of all the tongues in the Temple, sometimes retorting, sometimes laughing and passing on, sometimes stopping to watch the issue of a dispute or the clinching of a bargain.

Here then was an opportunity of depriving the vessel of that master-spirit which, notwithstanding the excellence of its construction, had alone so long enabled it to run the gauntlet of a hundred cruisers with impunity.

The Water-Witch has run the gauntlet of all your navies, and shot has never yet defaced her beauty.

Do we say   run the gamut   or  run the gauntlet