Grauble, on whom I staked my hopes of escape from Berlin, had departed to the Arctic and would not return for many months.
My talk with the men ended as had the last one, without arriving at any particular plan of action, and when Hellar arose first to go, I took the opportunity to escape from what to me was an intolerable situation.
I was tempted to divulge at once my long cherished plan of escape from Berlin.
I saw that my knowledge discreetly used, might enable me to become a great man among them and so learn secrets that would be of immense value to the outer world, should I later contrive to escape from Berlin.
He thought himself very cunning in this, as he meant to escape from Rochester to France.
I set out on my travels to escape from shams, and begin to discover that I am a sham par excellence.
In a day or two, perhaps the day after you receive this, I shall be able to escape from London, and most likely shall come on foot as usual.
But before I go on to speak further, I will tell one more experience, which came at a time when I was very unhappy, longing to escape from life, looking forward mournfully to death.
What the mind instinctively dislikes is stationariness; and an existence in which there was nothing to escape from, nothing more to hope for, to learn, to desire, would be frankly unendurable.
Much of our civilised life is an attempt, not deliberate but instinctive, to escape from this.
Even so they were still planning to escape from something--from some boredom or anxiety or dread.
But his persevering ardor in this two-fold enterprise kept him out of war with France; he did all he could to avoid it, and when the pressure of circumstances involved him in it for a time, he was anxious to escape from it.
The Tribunal might well send him to hell who had endeavoured to escape from purgatory.
We want to organize ourselves and see if we can't escape from slavery.
Then he would try to shelve the whole subject, in order to escape from it; but it always returned to him.
Since my stars had sentenced me to die, I thought it no bad bargain to escape from life so easily.
He collected the remnants of the Bandle Nere, and gave them over to Orazio Baglioni, who contrived to escape from S.
Making off, I took refuge in the house of Messer Giovanni Gaddi, clerk of the Camera, with the intention of preparing as soon as possible to escape from Rome.
How can I escape from you, when every new occasion, even your cruelty and scorn, brings out some new charm.
Was it not plain from this that she even then meditated an escape from me to some less sentimental lover?
The treacherous sand slope allowed no escape from a spot which I had visited most involuntarily, and a promenade on the river frontage was the signal for a bombardment from some insane native in a boat.
You belong to a Service that ought to be able to command the Channel Fleet, or set a leg at twenty minutes' notice, and yet you hesitate over asking to escape from a squashy green district where you admit you are not master.
So far as I could gather, it had been in existence from time immemorial--whence I concluded that it was at least a century old-- and during that time no one had ever been known to escape from it.
He would insist that the law should take its course, and that the "death" which was the doom of all who were caught in the act of escape from a penal settlement should be enforced.
The discipline at the place was so severe, and the life so terrible, that prisoners would risk all to escape from it.
Surely the punishment of "penal servitude" must have been made very terrible for men to dare such hideous perils to escape from it.
The first settlers who came across the ocean were animated solely by the desire to escape from oppression in their native land; they had as yet no purpose to set up an independent empire.
A noisy and troublesome Indian, who imagined that bullets could not kill him, fell into a quarrel with a settler, and slew him; and was himself shot while attempting to escape from arrest.
I returned to London when I had put my affairs in order at Osbaldistone Hall, and felt happy to escape from a place which suggested so many painful recollections.
Upon the whole, therefore, I was glad to escape from London, from Newgate, and from the scenes which both exhibited, to breathe the free air of Northumberland.
The man who tries to escape from it is like a plant being pulled up by the roots.
To escape from this we may suppose that Hawthorne surrounded himself with an invisible network of reserve, behind which his pure and lofty spirit could develop itself in a harmonious manner.
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