Escapes

Examples

• The condensed steam escapes at _w_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Grimes' hairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could read them now without a tremor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The carbon dioxide thus produced within the body escapes into the atmosphere with the breath. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When the piston moves downward as in (3), the valve in the pipe closes by its own weight, and the air in the cylinder escapes through the valve in the plunger. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The diver sometimes carries on his back a tank of compressed air, from which the air escapes through a tube to the space between the body and the suit. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But in an open fireplace much heat escapes with the smoke and is lost, and only a small portion streams into the room and gives warmth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Valve by which it escapes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The vice entirely escapes you, as long as you consider the object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thus Society escapes, and the illimitable power of Chemistry remains the slave of the most superficial and the most insignificant ends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Also a slave now and then escapes from the therns and makes his way hither. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He that pays ready money escapes, or may escape, that charge. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thus we are vain of the surprising adventures we have met with, the escapes we have made, and dangers we have been exposed to. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But in the more improved forms of the dress, the breathed air escapes by a valve so constructed as to prevent water from getting in, though it lets the air out. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I've spent, I'm afraid to say how much, in trying to trace her, and in spite of it all, she turns up here and escapes me on my own property! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The warmer air which escapes up the chimney carries with it the disagreeable smoke, and when all the smoke is got rid of in this way, the chimney is said to draw well. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If a puncture occurs in a tire, the compressed air escapes very quickly; that is, the compressed air within the tube has taken the first opportunity offered for expansion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He falls and she escapes, either with or without the object for which she has come. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• By means of a simple device (Fig. 157), the soap escapes from a receptacle when needed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• No one escapes it entirely. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• William and Justine were assassinated, and the murderer escapes; he walks about the world free, and perhaps respected. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The water which flows into the turbine case causes rotation of the wheel, escapes from the case through openings, and flows into the tail water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But, nevertheless, gas is saved, because when the mantle is adjusted to the gas jet, the pressure of the gas is lessened by a mechanical device and hence less gas escapes and burns. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When these substances are dissolved in water and mixed, effervescence occurs, carbon dioxide escapes, and a solution of Rochelle salt remains. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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