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At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.
Herodotus implies the Athenians ran the whole distance to the Persian lines, shouting their ululating war cry, " Ελελευ!
It is doubtful that the Athenians ran the whole distance ; in full armour this would be very difficult.
It ran east – west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6. 5 miles ( 10. 5 km ).
It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping, but moments after proclaiming his message " Nenīkēkamen " (" We have won!
Secretariat ran 1: 45 for 1 miles, then a world record for the distance.
Two months later, during the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games hosted in Vancouver, B. C., two competing runners, Australia's John Landy and Bannister, ran the distance of one mile in under four minutes.
Bolt ran the distance in a record time of 14. 35 seconds.
After reaching Bayou Grosse-Tete near the village of Grosse Tete, the line turned to the northwest and ran to Livonia in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a total distance of twenty-six miles.
The route started at Lake Lock, Stanley, on the Aire & Calder Navigation, near Wakefield, and ran to Outwood, a distance of approximately.
" He began to take six weeks a year off to spend time on sports and eventually moved to Beaver Creek, Colorado, in 1990, where for a time he ran his business from a distance.
On his way to becoming the number one contender for the middleweight title of each of the three major sanctioning bodies ( WBA, WBC, and IBF ), Mugabi ran roughshod over the division and finished each of his opponents inside the distance.
Some adjectives and adverbs that deal with the concept of distance use the modifiers further and furthest ( or farther and farthest ) instead of more, for example, " The boy ran farther away " or " The expedition was the farthest up the river ever recorded ".
Hagar strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba where the two soon ran out of water and Hagar, not wanting to witness the death of her son, set the boy some distance away from herself, and wept.
Formerly, the local school board ran each college separately ; Rolvaag designed a coordinated statewide system and announced a goal of putting each Minnesotan within commuting distance of an institution of higher education.
Göring declared the only possible reason could have been that short range fighters ran out of fuel at high altitude and " they were shot down much further west ... and glided quite a distance before they crashed ".
The horn was blown steadily and an announcement telling passengers to brace for impact was made minutes before the 139 m ( 456 ft ) ship slowly ran into the nearby Sewell's Marina, where she destroyed or damaged 28 pleasure craft and subsequently went aground a short distance from the shore.
The Glamorganshire Canal, authorised in 1790, ran from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff, a distance of 25 miles.
The line ran from Farringdon to, a distance of 4 miles ( 6 km ).
Hurriedly climbing back down the cliff — and falling the last short distance to the path — Holmes ran for his life.
Lighters ran aground on sandbars so that the troops had to wade some distance to get ashore.
The former London and Blackwall Railway ran from Minories to Blackwall by way of Stepney, a distance of three and half miles.
In the semi-finals of the 200 m, he suddenly ran 20. 5, equalling the standing world record for that distance.
Over the marathon distance, she ran her career best of 2: 27: 06 hours to win the 2005 Hamburg Marathon.

ran and over
The hired man ran over to help his boss.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
So when the Big House filled up and ran over, the sisters-in-law found beds for everyone in their own homes.
But, as he snarled unhappily when the inning was over, `` not a sonofabitch in the place would tell me '', so little Tommy ran all the way home.
He made the long whip sing and snap around their heads so that they ran screaming, some tripping over themselves in their flight.
I almost ran over the snake before I could stop the tractor in time.
He won election to the state legislature ; though he ran as a Whig, many Democrats favored him over a more powerful Whig opponent.
One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.
In 1872, the firm was taken over by Friedrich Schreiber, and in 1876 it merged with the firm of August Cranz, who bought the company in 1879 and ran it under his name.
* About Town ( Court Theatre, 1873, it ran for over 150 nights );
Two nights after it opened, I ran into Noël Coward in a restaurant, and he walked over and he said, " Dear boy, it is hanged, not hung.
It first appeared in 1942, and proved so popular that it ran intermittently over the next 35 years.
Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.
On 26 October, the Literary Gazette ran an article by David Zaslavski entitled, Reactionary Propaganda Uproar over a Literary Weed.
On the final lap, Earnhardt ran over a piece of metal in the final turn, cutting a tire.
But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.
While Heman remained in Salisbury, where he ran a general store until his death in 1778, Ethan's movements over the next few years are poorly documented.
The live action series ran a little over 10 episodes, which was produced by Howard David Deutsch and directed by Savage Steve Holland.
The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas.
Mrs. Auld one day saw Douglass reading a newspaper ; she ran over to him and snatched it from him, with a face that said education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
Wilkins also published the highly successful Los Angeles punk humor zine Wild Times and when he ran out of funding for the zine syndicated some of the humorous material to over 100 U. S. fanzines under the name of Mystic Mark.
She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

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