Conscience forbade her to elude her punishment by death.
Pompilia, in this extremity, extinguished the light, thinking thus to elude her assassins, and made for the door of a neighbouring blacksmith, crying for help.
He had tested the equal strength of the earthly and the heavenly powers, and he knew that he could elude neither, and that neither could be postponed to the other.
LIFE IN A LOVE" might be the utterance of the same person, when he has grasped the fact that the loved one is determined to elude him.
He enfolds in it the glowing forms of the living; but these also elude him.
But in view of the fact that the Germans had shown that a squadron could actually elude the large number of British warships patrolling the North Sea, and was actually able to strike at the British coast, it was a moral victory for Germany.
It was not thought possible that the Germans could again elude the British ships on patrol in these waters, and the guards therefore thought that the firing came from ships flying the Union Jack and tried to signal to them.
This was to elude a successful German envelopment on their Louvain right.
This flat country will always elude your descriptions!
But the fugitives could not doubt that their escape had been discovered; and now the question was, would they be able to elude pursuit?
It was of such a nature as to force itself upon them; therefore it was in vain to attempt to elude it by subterfuge.
The other attempt to elude the evidence before the committee, recoiled with equal force on the gentlemen who had hazarded it.
Two attempts had been made to elude the force of these official proofs.
Having eased his mind on this head, Marshall went on, very dexterously indeed, but also very palpably, to elude the consequences of his temerity.
Her fingers were gripping at his arms with all their strength, as though she were afraid that somehow he would elude and escape her.
I went for him, but he managed to elude me and dashed for the wall in the back of the garden.
But if they did pursue he was prepared to elude them.
Inasmuch as the feeling clings to historical facts and persons, it will instinctively elude or attempt to suppress all critical examination and analysis of these its supports.
These scruples, though founded on an excellent principle, are sometimes carried to an absurd pitch of nicety, especially as it is generally easy for a lawyer who has his wits about him to elude the objection.
This is the device by which the nobles of Provence elude the infamous Civil Code of M.
But Mr. Silverton had lost his desire to elude the boys.
The Cubs had no intention of allowing him so easily to elude them.
It was therefore agreed that, to elude the bad omen, the new king should assume the name of Robert, rendered dear to Scotland by the recollections of Robert Bruce.
But that doesn't say how we're going to elude it during a journey of a hundred and fifty miles without carriers.
The prize seemed destined to elude me each time just as I thought it mine.
And it cannot be otherwise; for what the Creator has joined must have some affinity, although the palpable signs may elude our cognizance.
Those so self-justified villains of Dickens never eludetheir fates.
His Empire, too, for all its extent and complexity, presents no imposing facade to the world; it seems to elude observation and to be everywhere apologizing for its existence.
The Lagorchestes is very common on the plains to the north of Gawler Town, but is so swift as generally to elude the dogs.
It never perched on the trees, but when it dropped after rising from the ground, could seldom be flushed again, but ran with such speed through the grass as to elude our search.
Audubon tells us of a certain fox, which, when started by the hounds, always managed to elude them at a certain point.
In cold, dry weather the fox will sometimes elude the hound, at least delay him much, by taking to a bare, plowed field.
The king of terrors sways the sceptre of absolute authority over all the living; none can elude his grasp, nor resist his power.
What adulterer could expect to elude the penalty of his crime after witnessing such a spectacle of justice and of benevolence?
Proteus-like they elude us; when we think they have been destroyed, a passing word or thought revives them.
They learned once more that it was One they could not elude with whom they had to do, One who could be severe and also kind, who could strike and also save.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
