Aye," returned Sir Richard; "and ill did I conduct the business of eluding you.
At the very moment when he was about to wheel to the westward, in the faint hope of eluding his pursuers through a continued flight, there sounded a creaking of wheels, and the heavy structure began slowly to move earthward.
He resided in the suburbs under a fictitious name, and eluding the vigilance of the ministry, had held by night several secret interviews with the emperor, proposing to him, in the name of the queen, plans of reconciliation.
Towards the end of the first round Thomas, eluding a left swing, put Patrick neatly to the floor, where the latter remained for the necessary ten seconds.
Being familiar with the country, young De Clameran was confident of eluding his pursuers.
If one but knows or suspects that he is being shadowed, the Third Avenue elevated road, with its bridges at Thirty-fourth and Forty-second Streets, offers the most effectual means of eluding the most skilful detective.
According to orders, I prepared to follow them, that they might not visit the child, eluding us by driving.
Evidently it was to this house that Mr. Mitchel had gone after eluding him in the morning.
She had nothing to do, therefore, but wait till they had passed, in the hope of eluding their eager scent.
Wherever it was practicable, the path was carried over rocks, or the soft elastic mosses, or through the bed of a running brook, with the hope of eluding the pursuer.
He must get away, and the sooner he went the better would be his chances of eluding them.
His first thought was to aid her in eluding pursuit, presuming that she had gone alone and without accomplice.
Constantine moved cautiously by the wayside, easily eluding the notice of the men whose dark outlines were discerned by him as they stood on guard at intervals along the road.
A remnant from the pitiless strife escaped Entered their stronghold, scarceeluding doom.
And you will not always succeed in eludingtheir clutches.
In the custom-houses Toni had seen the richest tourists eluding the vigilance of the employees in order to evade an insignificant payment.
Her astuteness was quite accustomed to eluding pursuit, and without Ferragut's knowing exactly how, she slipped away, mingling with the groups near the Plaza of Catalunia.
And his furtively swift motion, in eluding the loved hand, savoured far more of the wolf than of the trained house dog.
Though confounded and stunned by this rapid succession of events, I was yet able to pursue measures for eluding these detested visitants.
There was but one method of repairing or eludingthis mischief.
So far from eluding this curiosity, so far from studying concealment, I am anxious to publish the truth.
It was Sunday, and I was desirous of eluding observation.
Whenever this reptile is discovered, the male darts upon it with the rapidity of an arrow, dexterously eluding its bite, and striking it violently and incessantly upon the head.
The horses appear to enjoy the sport as much as their riders, and are very active in eluding the shock of the animal, should it turn on its pursuer.
Speak of proofs--irrefragable proofs--and then you convict him at once, without power of eluding you.
For the last hour, at least from before one, that is, until a quarter to two, he had run amuck through London, eluding with amazing agility every effort to stop or capture him.
This was the excepted article, which served the turn of those eluding the monopoly.
To have made her nudity a torment, ever eluding a pursuing Tantalus, would have been an amusement to her.
And what should you think of me, if I were to play the traitoress, and aid you in eluding the vigilance of my father, and afford the means of escape to so formidable an enemy?
Thus he passed through the encampment, when he again threw himself upon the ground, and again succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the outposts, and in reaching safely the covert where he had left his rifle and his accoutrements.
There is the stout-hearted player who refuses to resign though his defeat is demonstrably certain, but continues to jog about the board, eluding actual capture; in life would he resign?
On the declaration of an armistice, however, he again succeeds ineluding the Boxer bands, goes through the storming of Tien-tsin, and marches with the allied army to Pekin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eluding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
