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Her family never suspekted anything and they hung round talking to folks and shaking hands while Miss Jemima Parr and my mothers uncle Thomas were eloping outside.

From The Golden Road by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

After we had done everything to make the Bevis crowd think we were eloping, what did we do but run into the whole crowd at San Anselmo!

From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

The wimpling lane slid as silently away from the sleeping loch as though it were eloping and feared to awake an angry parent.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

They would be married to-night; they were eloping even at this palpitant instant!

From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson

It needed nothing more to persuade him that they were eloping lovers, and that a snug gratuity was as good as in his pocket.

From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by Bruce, H. Addington (Henry Addington)