This woman has been on the point of eloping with another man, who leaves her a large fortune.
I have always been accustomed to consult him before eloping with anyone else.
In eloping with Mary Godwin in 1814, the poet associated himself with a family no less distinctly beneath people of quality than the family from which he took his first wife.
I am not in love,' Shelley wrote from Wales within six weeks of eloping with Harriett Westbrook.
Certainly she was eloping with you, and now I remember how sweetly she talked about you as we walked along the beach.
The girl and I were eloping and you were along as a friend.
But that detective said he had a warrant for Mr. Gladwin for eloping with me," cried Helen, blushing scarlet.
Illustration: page135 Eloping with the Fire-Engine] The appearance of authority, coupled with energy and decision, will usually control a crowd.
Nor, in this candid narrative which, I trust, will carry its own apology for our audacious behaviour as it progresses, must I omit to give the chief reason for my choice of a yacht as a means of eloping with Grace.
You are accused of eloping with a minor, and we are commanded to transport you to Spandau until further orders!
And the scar which you bear upon your face, is it not the mark of a whip, with which I lashed a certain Herr Ebenstreit three years since, who prevented my eloping with my betrothed?
Niquea, tiring of her virtual imprisonment, succeeded in eloping with Amadis, and soon afterward arrived with him at Trebizond, where their nuptials were celebrated.
In the first place you will be asked, I presume, by one gentleman whether you were willinglyeloping with Captain Ussher?
And as I respected my husband and respect myself, I should never have thought ofeloping with my cousin, especially from Garvington's house, when I had much better and safer chances of eloping in town.
Moreover, an Indian elopement does not at all indicate a romantic preference on the part of an eloping couple.
The deliberate animosity against free choice is emphasized by a statement in Brough Smyth (79), that if the owner of an eloping female suspects that she favored the man she eloped with, "he will not hesitate to maim or kill her.
Its object was to punish Paris, son of the King of Troy, for eloping with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, and taking away a shipload of treasures to boot.
Now, stealing brides, or elopingto avoid having to pay for them, is of frequent occurrence everywhere among uncivilized races.
I am sorry to spoil your romantic anticipations, but I am certainly not eloping with anybody.
I had no orders to rove the seas in search of lost heiresses or eloping couples, and my career might have been nipped in the bud if I'd taken the Cobra into Devonport as a prize.
She insisted on her young man, Peter, eloping with her on the night before their wedding.
Whereupon Christopher, the best man, engaged to Victoria, insisted upon Victoria also living up to her theory and eloping without clerical assistance--which she did almost as unwillingly as Peter.
But I must own, that it is past my comprehension, that a wife can resent any thing a husband can do (that is not a breach of the peace) so far as to think herself justified for eloping from him.
She has about as much intention of eloping with him as a little girl might have of eloping with a pasteboard Jim Crow.
I asked Lemuel if he could throw straight enough to throw the handkerchief-ball into the window, and he said he could, and took the handkerchief, but a brighter idea came to me, and I turned to the eloping young lady.
Eloping persons generally have a carriage, and they drive at top speed," suggested Old Paul.
After that an old chaise had been discovered, hidden away in the stable of an inn; and that had been a mere matter of seventeen shillings; and this was the equipage in which these eloping persons were to start.
At least, that is, in the best eloping cases," she added, thoughtfully.
But this will not seem like eloping when it's reported right in the newspapers.
But hearing in a few days that the son of the minister was on the point of returning, he took the precaution of eloping with her from that house during the night.
He at once said to himself, "Surely this lady is eloping somewhere, so I will see where she is going.
I've planned eloping lots of times," she said ambiguously.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eloping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
