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1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani x. sig. F.vi The departyng of the israelytes from Egypt is called flyght or ronnyng away.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxvj Lest they shoulde call his iourney a runnynge awaye.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 410 Runnings away of beasts ordaind for sacrifice.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 197 What with Death, and running away,..they hardly arose to that Number.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. iii. 183 He then mentioned the running away of the Uncle's Daughter. View more context for this quotation

1766 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. (ed. 2) Flight,..a running away, heat of imagination.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 535/2 Running Away is only an extreme form of pulling in the gallop.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlii. 129 Running away, especially when spoken of as absconding, seems..to offer a good modern substitute for the right of sanctuary.

1972 D. Ireland Flesheaters 9 You've done your dash. Any more running away and you'll be confined to pyjamas for a week.

2004 D. Edmonds & J. Eidinow Bobby Fischer goes to War xiii. 161 This running away had to do with his apprehension about females.