Escaping

Examples

• Elizabeth listened as little as she could, but there was no escaping the frequent mention of Wickham's name. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I left the agent with my mind relieved from all present fear of the Count's escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If he renewed it (and I had reasons, shortly to be mentioned, for anticipating that he would), I might be certain of his not escaping me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• As to escaping, what chances there were of escape? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was trusted with the secret of Colonel Herncastle's plan for escaping assassination. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In fact, the good little fellow had become alarmingly limp, and his senses seemed to be rapidly escaping, from the knees upward. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• During the operation the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon and forms carbonic acid gas, which, in escaping from the metal, appears to make it boil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The law of chances was clearly against his escaping on this occasion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yet this is not consolation for you, my Justine, unless indeed that you may glory in escaping from so miserable a den. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And when gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yet if you probe those interpretations there is no escaping the conclusion that they rest upon some notion of what man is like. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I live professionally in an atmosphere of disputation, Mr. Hartright, and I am only too glad to escape from it, as I am escaping here. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Macmurdo looked at his principal with the air of a man profoundly puzzled, and Rawdon felt with a kind of rage that his prey was escaping him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The liquid air in the interior chamber vaporizes gradually, and escaping through the outwardly opening valve at the top, expands around the air space surrounding the inner vessel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The foul, bad-smelling gases which arise from sewers can be prevented from escaping and passing to streets and buildings by placing charcoal filters at the sewer exits. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As to his escaping by that window, it was incredible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In (5) the process of (3) is being repeated, but water instead of air is escaping through the valve in the plunger. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The light touched to russet the rings of dark hair escaping from her braids, and made her pale face paler. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She could not bear the terrible crushing boom of the escaping water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Having given in a hearty shake, he retired, growling, under a form; just escaping the pewter measure which Mr. Sikes levelled at his head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Think once again on your own condition, and the opportunity you have of escaping from it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Let no man talk of murderers escaping justice, and hint that Providence must sleep. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• At that time there was an imperial edict forbidding foreign travel, so that Yuan Chwang started from Singan like an escaping criminal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The air used in the process is forced at 12 into a drum in the smokestack, 11, and is heated by the escaping products of combustion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Well, there seemed little to worry about on that score, for the likelihood of my ever escaping the blacks was extremely remote. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Editor: Nell