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Nobody knows it, but tonight Joe Hunt and the Widow Backus are eloping to North Carolina to get married.

From Sam, This is You by Leinster, Murray

Only officers who are eloping with grand duchesses wear court uniform: otherwise the grand duchesses could not be seen with them.

From Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress by Shaw, Bernard

"Do you realize that we are eloping, like runaway school children?" said Miss Lavinia, "we two hitherto sober-minded Knickerbockers?"

From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood

This is very awkward," he said, "because Araminta and I are eloping.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch

They claim they are eloping for to be married on account of cruel parents.

From The Gentle Grafter by Greening, H. C.