Rán
... Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before ... bringing gold with them on any voyage, so that if they drowned while at sea, Ran would be pleased by their gift ...Famous quotes containing the word ran:
“And then I ran to get away,
But when I stopped and turned to see,
The tree was bending to the side
And leaning out to look at me.”
—Elizabeth Madox Roberts (18801941)
“And here we have that splendid family
I never ran to when I got depressed,
The boys all biceps and the girls all chest....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Imagining that I could
A greater with a lesser pang assuage
Or but to find if withered vein ran blood,
I tore my body that its wine might cover
Whatever could recall the lip of lover.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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