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Definition of Runnels
1. runnel [n] - See also: runnel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runnels
Literary usage of Runnels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1887)
"runnels. proceedings at law ; that the bill and amended bill of the ... Rowan and
Harris were citizens of Virginia, and runnels was a citizen of Mississippi ..."
2. Life of David S. Terry: Presenting an Authentic, Impartial and Vivid History by Alexander E. Wagstaff (1892)
"Miss Cornelia runnels was the daughter of Harmon runnels, a large cotton planter,
... Hiram runnels had married a Miss Smith, who was David S. Terry's aunt; ..."
3. Studies in Southern History and Politics by William Archibald Dunning (1914)
"Captain JS Ford, fresh from scenes of Indian ravages, wrote to Governor runnels: "The
citizens of this state are entitled to protection and they ought to 1 ..."
4. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1889)
"... PAH- TIES—-BIOGRAPHY OF RUSK—ADMINISTRATION OF runnels—THE SLAVERY AGITATION—HOUSTON
ELECTED GOVERNOR. TEXAS now entered upon a new phase of existence. ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"When swollen with rains it pours straight over the apex, adds to it what of gravel
it may carry, and splits into radiating runnels that shift hither and ..."
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