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they came running.
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drawn
they came running
toward the King—
(Don L. Lee (Haki R. Madhubuti) (b. 1942), U.S. poet. Assassination (l. 10-15). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
(Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), Hungarian-born British author. The Ghost in the Machine, ch. 18 (1967).)
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And finally
(apart from running the household)
Brought up and educated the children.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The Literary World.")
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My thoughts are children
With uneasy faces
That awake and rise
Beneath running skies
From buried places.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Winter.")
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'Tis with my mind
As with the tide swelled up unto his height,
That makes a still-stand, running neither way.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Northumberland, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 2, sc. 3, l. 62-4.
"Still-stand" suggests the moment at which the tide is about to turn.)
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Kicking the heart
with pain's big boots running up and down
the intestines like a motorcycle racer.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Big Boots of Pain.")
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Art and Antiquity, III (1821).)
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This place is the longest running farce in the West End.
(Cyril Smith (b. 1928), British Liberal politician. Comment, July 1973. Quoted in Big Cyril (autobiography), ch. 8, Cyril Smith (1977).)
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