He says we crossed the state line about ten miles back and that the marriage laws are very easy on elopers here.
Elopers from two or three bordering states come here to get married, he says.
The couple escape to a distant tribe and remain a few months--rarely more than seven or eight, so far as he observed; then the faithless wife is returned to her husband and the elopers are punished more or less severely.
Sometimes the husband seems glad to have got rid of his wife, for when the elopers return to camp he first has his revenge by cutting the legs and body of both and then he cries "You keep altogether, I throw away, I throw away.
If not, theelopers return after a few weeks and all is forgiven.
Said she reckoned that elopers were the only people who would do such a fool stunt.
We dropped the treasure car, the last lighted Pullman with the silver bricks in it, off on the siding where those crazy elopers flagged us.
Add the coming of the former admirer with evidence he has found that the elopers have been making for this station; and as the new complications developed by his coming take shape, let the train be heard far up the line.
It was nearly one o'clock when the elopers at last reached the Municipal Building.
The North River was choppy from darting tugs and gliding barges as the ferry-boat bore the elopers toward the Jersey side.
The human torrent in the Grand Central station whirled the elopers with it along the ramp and out under the zodiac dome of the great, busy hall.
The elopers found their chairs and joined the long line of spectators.
A thick fog, and the elopers on board the Tempest Queen, one of the fastest and most palatial of the liners which ply between England and the Far East, and for ten years under the command of Captain Shadburn, formerly of the British Navy.
After the revenue man had gone below to lie down awhile before luncheon the elopers indulged in an animated discussion of affairs under new conditions.
If either of the elopers had been calmer, the solution of the problem would have been simple.
Down upon the unsuspecting elopers came this miraculous cloudburst of ironical rice, and with it came Little Jimmie Wellington, who lost what little balance he had, and catapulted into their midst like the offspring of an iceberg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elopers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
