a good run; a run of fifty miles

Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.

My wingèd helmet and my wingèd heel

Upland areas isolated from floodplains and nonwooded streams are generally avoided (Humphrey et al. 1977).