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runaway adjective 2. out of control, uncontrolled Translations runaway [ˈrʌnəweɪ] adj [person] → fuggiasco/a; [horse] → in libertà; [truck] → fuori controllo; [inflation] → galoppante |
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| He was a husky youngster of seventeen, a runaway apprentice, he told me, from an English ship in Australia. While they were thus waiting, and the savages came on, they plainly saw that one of the three was the runaway savage that had escaped from them; and they both knew him distinctly, and resolved that, if possible, he should not escape, though they should both fire; so the other stood ready with his piece, that if he did not drop at the first shot, he should be sure to have a second. At last, by sheer luck, a Carabineer[2] happened along, who, hearing all that noise, thought that it might be a runaway colt, and stood bravely in the middle of the street, with legs wide apart, firmly resolved to stop it and prevent any trouble. |
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