Flee

Examples

• As my sword went up to end her horrid career her paralysis left her, and with an ear-piercing shriek she turned to flee. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If I flee from her, there's a law to punish me? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As Gautama's own experiences had shown, it is easier to flee from this world than from self. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A second since she would have flown to him; that second past, she would flee from him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They flee man as man flees a pestilence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There was still time to flee. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thinkest thou to escape from whence in all the countless ages but a single soul has fled? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It has always been said that my father stole all the securities and fled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Brunswickers were routed and had fled--their Duke was killed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He and seventy others had fled out from a gladiatorial farm at Capua. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some assistance being needed, he demanded it of the cook, a robust, strong-armed womanbut she, the portress, and the nurse instantly fled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Where Judy Trenor led, all the world would follow; and Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Roaring and shrieking the apes dashed toward Kulonga, but that wary savage was fleeing down the trail like a frightened antelope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Nor does he need to check his speed to catch these seemingly faint records of the fleeing beast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Her bow gun spoke again even as we looked, and another shell burst among the fleeing Warhoons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Djor Kantos, son of Kantos Kan, and a padwar of the fifth utan joined us when his utan reached the opening through which the men were fleeing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• At all events I had not the heart to turn the artillery upon such a mass of defeated and fleeing men, and I hoped to capture them soon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What was this outpouring of senseless bitterness but the tracked creature's attempt to cloud the medium through which it was fleeing? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They flee man as man flees a pestilence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She had come abroad with the Welly Brys at the moment when fashion flees the inclemency of the New York spring. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typed by Ethan