Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 1 (p. 457)
“The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or — somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.”
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Kenneth Grahame
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The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 3
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