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running high

[for feelings] to be in a state of excitement or anger. Feelings were running high as the general election approached. The mood of the crowd was running high when they saw the mother slap her child.

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A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves running high. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context We were often in danger of being taken, and particularly when we touched at Dabal, where a cruiser blocked up one of the channels through which ships usually sail; but our vessel requiring no great depth of water, and the sea running high, we went through the little channel, and fortunately escaped the cruiser. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context As he traveled he hunted as he had hunted with his ape people in the past, as Kala had taught him to hunt, turning over rotted logs to find some toothsome vermin, running high into the trees to rob a bird's nest, or pouncing upon a tiny rodent with the quickness of a cat. The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context			run riot run scared run short Run that by again run the gamut run the gantlet run the gauntlet run the good race run the risk run the show run through run to run to earth run to ground run up run up against run up the flagpole run up to some place run with run with it run with the hare and hunt with the hounds run-of-the-mill runaround rung running running high running on empty running on fumes runt of the litter rush rush at rush for rush hour rush in rush into rush into print rush off rush on rush out rush out of rush through rush to rush to conclusions rush to the hospital rust rust away rust belt rust out rustle up rut saber			Running Footman running for it running for it running for it running for it Running for the Right running foul running foul running foul running foul Running from Nothing running game running gate running gear running gear Running Gear Entanglement System running ground running hand running head running head running head running headline running headline running headline running headlines running headlines running headlines running heads running heads running heads running high Running Impulse Magnetic Field Running in running interference running interference running interference running interference running into running into running into running into running into the ground running into the ground running into the ground running into the ground running into the sand running into the sand running into the sand running into the sand running into the sand running its course running its course running its course running its course running knot running knot running knots Running Late running light Running lights Running Line Amperes

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