"Run-in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knows it." Dingwell opened on Roy his gay smile. "I hear you've had a run-in with the bad man of Chicito ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... he exclaimed. "I call that snappy work. Twelve hours in New York, and a run-in with the police! I've noticed," he added, as the painter hurriedly quitted the room, "that, when you take the bad man out of his own cock-pit, he rarely lasts as ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... would be some sort of reverberations as a result of his run-in with the Sov officers, but hadn't ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... and join us, Tom," said Casey. "Feng had a run-in with Fluff. Result, one bottle of claret and two glasses gone ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... only, Cecil loosened the King to his full will and his full speed. Now only, the beautiful Arab head was stretched like a racer's in the run-in for the Derby, and the grand stride swept out till the hoofs seemed never to touch the dark earth they skimmed over; neither whip nor spur was needed, Bertie had only to leave the gallant temper and the generous fire that were roused in their might to go their way, and hold their own. His hands ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida |
