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1586 G. Whetstone Enemie to Vnthryftinesse f. 7 Mightie Ryuers wyll soone run drie, when their noorishyng Spryngs are turned another way.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. i. 12 Hee..would..with the Well drop vie, That he before his eyes would first runne drie.

1682 J. Banks Unhappy Favourite v. 59 Like Fishes on the Ouse When streams run dry, and their own Element Forsakes 'em.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 218 The stream of living waters..will never run dry.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XV. 161/2 It will discharge the water faster than TO supplies it; it will therefore run it dry.

1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 ii. 301 Most cows run dry in about ten months.

1891 Blackwood's Mag. 149 782/1 The only thing to be done is to..run the pool dry and clean it.

1969 M. H. Wolf Vermont is always with You 10 Re-seating the rubber thing in the back of the toilet to keep it from running the well dry.

2006 Daily Tel. 16 May 2/5 With the reservoirs running dry, the water authorities were struggling for ideas.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) i. clxxiii. 337 I am run dry of loving..that greatest and most admirable one!

1662 R. Baxter Saint or Brute 69 Whiles he feeds our Love, our Joyful praises will never be run dry.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. cxviii. 230 I intend, when run dry on other topics, to take a serious survey of the City-wall.

1827 Examiner 152/2 The Waverley novels ran dry at last.

1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ii. 28 In 1797 the bullion in the Bank of England had almost run dry.

1892 Argosy Apr. 287 The old gentleman had run his subject dry.

1939 Fortune Oct. 62/1 The Unemployment Insurance Institute was still heavily in debt and municipal relief funds had long since run dry.

1987 World Mag. Oct. 53/1 Either she [sc. the Golden Hind] disintegrated or was broken up when public curiosity ran dry.

2002 Time Out N.Y. 5 Sept. 103/2 Penning their own [songs] when the supply of Western tunes ran dry during the Communist regime.