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- noun Plural form of
outrunner .
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Examples
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She could not keep her mind on it for she had to rise often to head off outrunners of flame that strayed across the stubble of the field.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Badawin on wild camels, and grandees on mules and asses, with outrunners, were breaking a way by assault and battery.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Unless it was the ricksha of a rich man, perhaps a banker from Kowlhri Street, who could afford outrunners armed with bamboo canes to keep people off.
Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999
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She could not keep her mind on it for she had to rise often to head off outrunners of flame that strayed across the stubble of the field.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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The outrunners found the child among waves of grass and darkness, on the night when the moon and the moon wed one another and canceled their light and the sky was black except for a wedge of silver turned like a blade in the heart of the heavens.
The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987
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The outrunners found the child among waves of grass and darkness, on the night when the moon and the moon wed one another and canceled their light and the sky was black except for a wedge of silver turned like a blade in the heart of the heavens.
The Magic of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1987
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She should PLIGHT IN YIKTOR 11 come carried on the shoulders of stout chair veeks with outrunners and speakers-for-the-great in attendance.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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In one part of the procession was an imperial carriage of state drawn by six horses, a man in livery leading each horse, with all the necessary footmen, outriders, and outrunners.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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Four outrunners went speeding to the Missouri to notify the Mandans of the advancing warriors.
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Everywhere was the same crowd; shopping parties were pressing in and out the stores, outrunners and foot-boys were continually colliding.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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