"Run low" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now placed on a bench before the friar, some broa, or maize bread, and a piece of bacalhao, fried in oil. From the size of the morsel, the stock in the larder seemed to have run low, even in this article, which is nothing but codfish salted by British heretics for the benefit of the souls and bodies of the true sons of the Church. The friar eat alone and in silence, less intent on his meal than in watching and listening to the ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen |
