1 One of the first problems that Jurgis ran upon was that of the unions.
2 She had the temper of a hyena, and soon the place she ran was a witch's caldron.
3 He ran like one possessed, blindly, furiously, looking neither to the right nor left.
4 Now they sat round, scarcely breathing, while the old lady, who could read English, ran over it.
5 Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors.
6 He would laugh to himself as he ran down the line, darting a glance now and then at the man ahead of him.
7 Tamoszius had a bank account also, and they ran a race, and began to figure upon household expenses once more.
8 They were so numbed that they did not even suffer much from hunger, now; only the children continued to fret when the food ran short.
9 Here and there ran long alleys, blocked at intervals by gates; and Jokubas told them that the number of these gates was twenty-five thousand.
10 Little Kotrina, who was all alone with him, ran out screaming for help, and after a while a doctor came, but not until Kristoforas had howled his last howl.
11 It was near to the east entrance that they stood, and all along this east side of the yards ran the railroad tracks, into which the cars were run, loaded with cattle.
12 Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few feet from the floor; into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goads which gave them electric shocks.
13 Suspicion was rife in him now, and he was not ashamed to shadow her: he saw her turn the corner near their home, and then he ran again, and saw her as she went up the porch steps of the house.
14 All day long he would crawl around the floor in a filthy little dress, whining and fretting; because the floor was full of drafts he was always catching cold, and snuffling because his nose ran.
15 Jurgis tried to wait for the women, but went into a saloon to get warm, and took two drinks, and came out and ran home to escape from the demon; there he lay down to wait for them, and instantly fell asleep.
16 In answer to their inquiry he showed them a clause in the deed which provided that they were to keep the house insured for one thousand dollars, as soon as the present policy ran out, which would happen in a few days.
17 It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.
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