Sentence:  And the stiffly regal look of them , she saw grimly , lacked the quaver of age which , thwarting the efforts of her amazing will , <WSD>ran</WSD> through her spoken words like a thin ragged string . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point