Matthew Yglesias: the blockade-runner of left-wing blogging!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Critique of Pure Yglesias] Reference

Another blockade-runner is said to have been not so fortunate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Historians think it was a blockade-runner during the civil war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane Ike Mystery Ship at Fort Morgan, Alabama] Reference

A blockade-runner must have come in, because the Germans were well represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [December 6]

The necessary alterations to fit her for a blockade-runner were at once commenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

So I went with blockade-runner, a craft which must be fast and wily. saucy sauce Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Critique of Pure Yglesias] Reference

She was known as a blockade-runner to the fraternity; we used her to crawl upon others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference

She took passage upon a blockade-runner which, after pursuit, succeeded in reaching the port of.    From Wordnik.com.  [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference

To provide the means of light, every blockade-runner was required to bring in a barrel of sperm oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

Next morning the "Agnes Fry," an inward bound blockade-runner, was discovered aground on the western bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

In searching the house of one Terrence R. Quinn, a noted blockade-runner, then a prisoner in Fort McHenry, I found evidence that Andrews was a partner in his crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference

These lights were only set after signals had been exchanged between the blockade-runner and the shore station, and were removed immediately after the vessel had entered the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

The blockade-runner saw that he was caught and must submit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

A blockade-runner, named the Ruby, deceived by some lights on Folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863] Reference

But the blockade-runner can't stand being used for target-practice long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Swartz, the secret agent, blockade-runner, and "best spy in the Federal army" was before me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference

When hidden by a projecting headland, she stopped and waited for the blockade-runner to come out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

When hard pressed, the blockade-runner would beach his craft, set it afire, and take to the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6)] Reference

It was his intention to avoid being seen, though there was a chance to fall in with a blockade-runner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting for the Right] Reference

Those on the schooner could see the gunboat, but the lookout on the cruiser did not see the blockade-runner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Again, the low hull of a blockade-runner would be seen creeping around a point and heading for the open sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 4 (of 6)] Reference

My despatch boats chased the blockade-runner close to Syra harbour, both parties keeping up a warm running fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha] Reference

Clearly it was a steamer coming down the river; but whether an armed enemy or a blockade-runner, he could not say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

At the fine house of the blockade-runner -- champagne, rich viands, wax-lights, gold and silver, and profuse luxury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference

Beyond an occasional chase, generally useless, after a fleet blockade-runner, the sailors had absolutely no employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

And now the fort opened fire at the chasing cruisers, from whom the blockade-runner was crawling, being by this time well inshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha] Reference

I was still unable to buy her, although I knew what a valuable blockade-runner she would be and what a desirable cargo she carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Supplies for the Confederate Army, how they were obtained in Europe and how paid for.] Reference

Strategy was determined upon, and it was decided to give the blockade-runner the chance to get out of the river that she was awaiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

The old sea-serpent, "continued Mr. Slocum, with hopeless confusion of metaphor," had a hand in fitting out more than one blockade-runner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference

When they reached the blockade-runner they found all her crew gone ashore, save one watchman, whom they overpowered before he could give the alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

When night came on, she steamed out into the open sea, within a quarter of a mile of the blockade-runner, and, putting out all lights, lay to for the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

When the blockade-runner had taken her cargo and passengers aboard, and was prepared for her voyage, every one in the little town came down to the docks to see her start.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

The stranger was watched closely through marine glasses, and finally decided to be a blockade-runner trying to make the port; and the "Hatteras" immediately set out in pursuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

When the blockade-runner, after safely running the gauntlet of the warships, steamed leisurely up to the wharves of the blockaded town, every one rushed to the docks to greet her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference