run down Quotes

“We live in a housing project. It hasn’t been up long. A few days after it was up it seemed uninhabitably new, now, of course, it’s already run down.”

“The beat-looking grass lying around isn’t enough to make their lives green, the hedges will never hold out the streets, and they know it.”

“Nothing else for it. Knock it down and start again.”

“And we ran down the garden, with the snowballs in our arms, toward the house, and smoke, indeed, was pouring out of the dining-room, and the gong was bombilating, and Mrs. Prothero was announcing ruing like a town crier in Pompeii.”

“However, just as she says this, her husband is nearly run down by a passing bicyclist. The Mallards continue their search...”