A fog-horn voice blared, “In Eureka we'll promise free motor rides through the prettiest country—” Running down the aisle, clapping his hands, a lean bald young man cried, “I'm from Sparta!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The great Leicestershire sheep charge away across the field as the pack comes racing down the slope.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

“Don't want to ride in your infernal engine!” bellowed Ward, “I'm goin' to hoss-whip you, you—” “Colonel Ward, you know the legal status of the Poquette Carry Railroad, don't you?”
— from The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day

He would wonder what the people thought when the pebble came rattling down their chimney.
— from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

Headed by the nosing, sniffing, rough-coated police dogs, held in leashes, the police came running down the street.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Atlantic by John Henry Goldfrap

And the grove was here.—And the people came running down from the village on the cliff,'—she turned her hand towards Nemi.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

But with their imperfect knowledge of the poet’s relations with honest Jack Lawless, the readers of this page can readily discover motives for the second visit to the land of greenness and thraldom.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

The servant and the waiter, both curious, and not willing to part company, ran down the stairs, and thence into the street.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Why, say, like that she's what the poets call radiantly divine—eh, what?"
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Nevertheless, it is by no means easy to decide just what is meant by reason, or how the peculiar thinking process called reasoning differs from other thought-sequences which may lead to similar results.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

As soon [44] as he drew near, the princess came running down to meet him, for the dragon was away, and she had been watching from a high tower and had seen him coming.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle