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  • The galley had gone by the board, the mainsail and running-gear, the cook, everything!

    Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 2010

  • Last month Nike launched a running-gear collection inspired by Mr. Liu, the track star, in hopes that he will inspire consumers to buy merchandise such as 899 yuan $141 Nike LunarGlide LiuXiang Storm Fly running jacket.

    In China, Nike Sets Out to Alter Sports Mindset Laurie Burkitt 2011

  • Earlier this year, in a move that caused a stir in the advertising industry, Nike decided to pull its running-gear ad account from Wieden + Kennedy, which had a firm grip on Nike's advertising business, and give it to Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

    Nike, New Coach Chase Serious Runners 2007

  • Casa – Reale, an illustrious family of Spain, was a Creole, and, like all women served by slaves, she lived as a great lady, knew nothing of the value of money, repressed no whims, even the most expensive, finding them ever satisfied by an adoring husband who generously concealed from her knowledge the running-gear of the financial machine.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • These establishments became so choked with work that after 1st August tanks and assault guns had to be sent as far back as Kiev, even for minor repairs, to the running-gear and gunnery-control equipment.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Henry studied its running-gear, its radiator and bonnet, its dash-board and wind-shield.

    The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss

  • Early next morning we were astir, and crossed the other fork of the river on an improvised bridge made of boards laid on the running-gear of wagons.

    The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore

  • The galley had gone by the board, the mainsail and running-gear, the cook, everything!

    Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 1922

  • Now the ostrich thinks that when his head is hid his whole running-gear is out of sight.

    The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • But Dinky-Dunk, after looking more carefully over the heavy-timbered running-gear and the cumbersome iron-work, and discovering even the sturdy hooks under its belly from which the pails and pots of earlier travelers must have hung, concluded that it was one of the genuine old-timers, one of the

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

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