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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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It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
(Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), U.S. philosopher. The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 49 (1955).)
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I can't remember what I was doing before running. I guess shopping, sewing, watching TV—gaining nothing.
(Miki Gorman (b. 1935), U.S. marathon runner; born in China. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 28 (November 1977).
Gorman, a marathon champion, had begun running at age 33.)
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Almost yesterday, those gentle ladies stole
to their baths in Atlantic City, for the lost
rites of the first sea of the first salt
running from a faucet.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Lost Ingredient.")
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There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, "Garηon! Un Pernod!"
(Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 63 (1929, rev. 1970).
Advice to his disciple Victor Neuburg in Paris.)
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They built by rivers and at night the water
Running past windows comforted their sorrow;
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Paysage Moralisι (l. 13-14). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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Nearly all the bands are mustered out of service; ours therefore is a novelty. We marched a few miles yesterday on a road where troops have not before marched. It was funny to see the children. I saw our boys running after the music in many a group of clean, bright-looking, excited little fellows.
(Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. II, p. 351, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes (September 10, 1862).
On the march in the Antietam campaign.)
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He's like an express train running through a tunnel—one shriek, sparks, smoke and gone.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. Letter, June 25, 1935, to poet Stephen Spender. The Sickle Side of the Moon: Letters, vol. 5, ed. Nigel Nicolson (1979).)
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