Escaped

Examples

• The unfortunate inquirer staggered against a wall, a faint cry escaped her --O! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Suppose the thief had got away by dropping from one of the upper windows, how had he escaped the dogs? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Throughout the whole period of Mr. Candy's illness, from first to last, not one word about the Diamond escaped his lips. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She was as if escaped from some danger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the case of the cologne, some molecules must have escaped from the liquid by the process of evaporation and traveled through the air to the nose. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The winter remained mild for an unusually long time--he could have escaped; but instead he remained in Moscow, making impossible plans, at a loss. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Opening the grenades under water and collecting the gas that escaped it was found that the average amount of carbon dioxide contained was about one cubic inch per grenade. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Steam admitted into the globe from the cauldron escaped through the side pipes, and its pressure on these pipes caused the globe to rotate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• If Darius escaped they could be on his side; if he was destroyed, there was nothing of which the Scythians could complain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I explained that I had escaped from the Warhoons and was dying of starvation and exhaustion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was to those who had neither been killed or escaped that he hastened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• All escaped from my lips. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is known that Floyd and Pillow escaped during the night of the 15th, taking with them not less than 3,000 men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By a strange fatality Juliet alone escaped, and she to the last waited on her relatives, and smoothed the pillow of death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• An inaudible reply escaped Mason's white lips. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Shirley was sanguine that the evil she wished to avert was almost escaped, that the threatened storm was passing over. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Not one solitary house escaped unscathed--not one remained habitable, even. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• For the time being it looked very much as if all thought of the war had escaped their minds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In answer to Inspector Martin, they were clear that every door was fastened upon the inside, and that no one could have escaped from the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They are now expecting their harvest, and are reinforced with the soldiers that escaped from Torquilstone. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Why, child, I have but this moment escaped from his horrible mother. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Of the assassin, or assassins, nothing was known; they had escaped. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• O, certainly,--George Harris,--I know him well; he married a servant of my mother's, but has escaped, now, to Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She started violently, and a faint cry of surprise escaped her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I count the hours that have passed since I escaped to the shelter of this room by my own sensations--and those hours seem like weeks. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I felt inclined to ask; but I simply answered, I have shaken her well, and would have shaken her better, but she escaped out of my hands and ran away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But a kind fate intervened, and by a miracle I escaped with but slight bruises. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If I had only been near you she should not have escaped us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was the possibility that the murderer had done this, and had afterwards escaped by the window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Edited by Janet