run across

• “Most campgrounds allow small pets, but you will run across campgrounds with no-pet policies.”

  Simon & Schuster: The RVer’s Bible

• “As Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic of the New Yorker, put it at the time, “Boldness has been pretty much out of fashion in city-planning circles for a while, especially in lower Manhattan, where it is associated not only with projects like the World Trade Center but with unrealized schemes like the expressway Robert Moses wanted to run across downtown, which would have destroyed SoHo.””

  Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

• “We have ears made large enough to hear the very thoughts of prey, eyes meant to track its motion as it flees, noses meant to capture each drop of prey-scent, and legs to run across the world.”

  Simon & Schuster: Promise of the Wolves

• “But here was a means of verifying a ship's position after her long run across from the Cape, and if she found Dirk Hartog Island, she could safely thence make her way north to Java.”

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

• “These stylized, sensationalist lines run across the movie poster for Peking Express, set in a forward-leaning font designed to intimate speed and thrills.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Chinatown

• “Then a short, flat run across the floor of Shady Valley, a last splurge of hills, and then Sullivan County, civilization, as 421 took her back to Bristol, to her apartment, to a nice glass of wine.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

• ““Feels good?” he asked throatily, watching the emotions run across my face as he pushed his fingers deeper into me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Real wifeys

• “He saw Rose gather up the full skirt of her house-coat and run across the lawn, and he saw her father set down his creel and rod, take off his hat and wait for her, his bald head gleaming.”

  Scales of Justice

• “The run across the Indian Ocean was uneventful, except that the ship ran foul of a whale apparently sleeping on the water, and “caused such an alarm that he sank as expeditiously as possible”; and that an albatross was captured which, “being caught with hook and line it had its proper faculties and appeared of a varocious nature.””

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

• “Marty was quite sure he saw a yellow-hammer on the boughs of the great ash, and while he was peeping, he missed the sight of a white-throated stoat, which had run across the path and was described with much fervour by the junior Tommy.”

  Adam Bede

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