"Run-in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was in his attitude something picturesquely heroic. Not since walking down the California campus one morning after the big game won three minutes before blowing of the final whistle, by his fifty-yard run-in of a punt, had he been in that posture—at once pleasant and difficult—in which one's vital concern is to wear an humility sufficiently convincing to obtain from friends forgiveness for the ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
... "If we're going to have a run-in with 'em, let's have it in the open, before they ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman
... is, I've got to work Attend to your own faults, and not pry into other people's Beastly as a vulgar woman's laugh But one's alone when it comes to the run-in Can we never have quite enough? Charming generalities Constitutionally averse to being pitied Contentment that men experience at the misfortunes of an enemy Could never tell exactly when to stop Each one of us lives on the edge of a volcano Every bird singing ...
— Quotations from the Works of John Galsworthy • David Widger |
