His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of {182} Ananke.
Often, also, these imaginary relations were founded on reasons that escape us: like the qualities attributed by astrology to the stars, they may have been derived from old beliefs the memory of which is lost.
To escape this threatening absorption, these gods must be of a very sharply defined personality and of a very original character.
When we consider the absolute authority that astrology exercised under the Roman empire, we find it hard toescape a feeling of surprise.
Never, not even during the Mohammedan invasions, had Europe a narrowerescape from becoming Asiatic than when Diocletian officially recognized Mithra as the protector of the reconstructed empire.
Plotinus is too much of a Greek to accept, or even see, all the consequences of his own theory, which makes moral life consist in an attempt to escape from the world and to quench consciousness and personality.
And, if any one acts in a manner at variance with this divine ordination, it may be that his transgression does not escape the notice of the gods, and that he is punished for neglecting his own duties or performing those of his wife.
It is the basis of a certain number of cements, and coatings for preventing the escape of heat, which are applied to pipes, steam domes, hot water reservoirs, etc.
Thus in the better kind of corks used in bottling champagne and other effervescing wines, you are familiar with the extent to which the corks expand the instant they escape from the bottles.
It was easy toescape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.
There is no reason to have guards, for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be.
It is whispered that once or twice in a hundred years, one among the men of the City escape alone and run to the Uncharted Forest, without call or reason.
We spoke of it, and of our long quest, and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention.
With a few quick steps he could always glide to either side and escape the clumsy rush.
Some of the archers, seeing that certain death awaited them, were already running back to escape from the fatal passage.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
But the waste matter of the muscles cannotescape so easily, for these are becoming deeper seated.
Forces, conditions, and relations which never enter the sphere of life of lower forms, crowd and press upon him and he cannot escape them.
The rewards and penalties of moral law easily escape notice in our hasty and superficial study of life.
The little knot of nervous material which forms the supra-oesophageal ganglion is so small that it might easily escape our notice; but it is the promise of an infinite future.
Brain was good, for it planned escape from enemies.
The importance of this organ in the pursuit of food or the escape from enemies can scarcely be over-estimated.
Salvation is soundness, sanity, health; just as holiness is wholeness, escape from the disease, and not merely from the consequences of sin.
But be patient and hopeful, and thy spouse will find means to escape from her jailer.
Sire, on such a day, no soldier could hope to escape from danger; above all, the officers who led them into action.
You have given orders that no man shall be suffered to escape from the cathedral to-day, and, unless you go with me, the treasure must be given up to the flames.
Half an hour later he was on the road to Paris; but, desirous to escape notice, Eugene travelled without footmen or outriders, and confined himself to a span of horses for his carriage.
Perhaps she rejoices at her escape from alliance with the disgraced family of the De Soissons, and blesses Heaven for--peace, doubting heart!
Give me your arm, and let us try to reach the gates, so as to be the first to escapefrom this accursed man- trap.
From that day, Laura had revolved in her mind the feasibility of escape through the chimney.
You give me your word of honor that he shall not escape punishment?
I knew no other device by which to escape your too loving vigilance.
Miserable coward," said the prince, "who to escape from the dangers of a fray among lackeys, have taken refuge in the carriage of a nobleman!
For one year--from the day of her meeting with Eugene--Laura had been revolving in her mind the possibility of escape, and again and again had she been compelled to acknowledge that escape was impossible.
He hopes toescape without recognition," muttered Eugene, "but I must have a word with him before we part.
He will find means to escapethe vigilance of the police.
The marquis was too keen for these symptoms to escape his penetration.
And if many escape unpunished, I would have the traitors to know that they owe it to the hospitality shown to my mother by their parents, or perhaps by themselves.
Therefore I say, firmly and decidedly: Melissa must not make her escape from this house.
I can no longer escape from her; awake or asleep, her image is before my eyes, and my spirit is in her power.
The whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers.
Although Melissa was closely veiled and accompanied by a servant, she did not escape rude words and insolent glances.
He regarded it, too, as a dispensation from Heaven that Agatha and Melissa should have happened to meet, and Alexander's happy escape had taken a weight from his mind.
But they could scarcely yet have opened the chambers, and the girl was clever and nimble, and might perhaps escape in time if she heard the men approaching.
If you have her happiness at heart, then escape with her into a far country.
Above all, Barjona in a silk hat, which he was at that moment carefully removing from his head, as though anxious to prevent the escape of some bird imprisoned within!
I'm taking a fearful chance in letting you escapethis way.
Here is where I am given a chance of escape from making a lifelong enemy of your future mother-in-law.
The ladies frequently went in masks, which was a great mode at that time, and one often adopted by the court dames to escape detection in the intrigues and mad pranks they so liberally permitted themselves.
But the difference between public buildings of modern erection in London and in Paris is so immense, that it can escape no one.
Indeed, the technicalities which surround our legal tribunals have been, until very lately, and are still, in too many instances, most strangely favourable to the escape of criminals.
If the punishments of our ancestors were cruel, if trials were sometimes over hasty, and small offences often too severely chastised, on the other hand, culprits formerly had facilities of escape now refused to them.
A few there may be, who will regard the new system with a favourable eye, albeit on no other ground than because it offers a prospect of escape from evils which exist, and are increasing, and which can hardly be exchanged for worse.
A madman had contrived to make his escape from confinement, having first thrown all the furniture of his room out of the window, and knocked down and trampled upon his keeper.
There is no record of cudgelings bestowed upon Julian, though it is presumed that he did not escape them.
My good friend and I were fortunate enough to escape this plague; but instead of this I was taken sick with the ague on our arrival at Boston.
The animal becomes suffocated, and tries to escape through the only aperture available, made for the occasion by the Yanadi, and, as it emerges, is killed.
There are no other openings or outlets of any kind, either for the escape of smoke, or for the free ingress and egress of atmospheric air.
The chief of the Velans becomes possessed, and prays that, as the Pandavas emerged safely from the sorcery of the Kauravas, the person affected by the calamity may escape unhurt.
However tame he may be, he never fails to escape into the woods to resume his savage life if an opportunity arises.
Who has not followed them breathlessly when on the trail of a flying foe, or winding serpent-like through the thick brush-wood inescape from some persistent pursuer?
When they cannot escape from danger through agility, they bravely confront the enemy which attacks them.
From its tops the Indians frequently suspend their hammocks to escape the attacks of the mosquitoes.
Fain would the horses escape their enemies' attacks, but the Indians drive them back into the water with stout canes of bamboo and long whips.
Yvan, "that reminds the spectator of the sublime instrument of our churches; the strange sounds which escape from between these cylinders of rock render the analogy still more striking, and complete the illusion.
The animals fall in pell-mell, until the snare is filled with a living mass, which enables the others to escape by passing over the bodies of the victims.
The frightened animals can find no other avenue of escape than the entrance to the corral, where are placed, moreover, as an attraction, some females trained to act as decoys.
One after another he breaks the greatest branches; but they immediately escape from his grasp, and fall to the ground.
Great the consternation if their enemy escape them!
When attacked by him, they seek at first to make their escape, and only turn at bay when escapeis impossible.
In winter they descend into the plains and valleys; in summer they take refuge upon the mountains, where the wild herds gain the loftiest terraces, the more easily to escape the attacks of gadflies and other insect enemies.
Mrs Birst, however, and her whole family, had been fortunate enough to escape with life, although with the loss of all their property.
After the thermite had cut out the ship free, that blister would prevent the escape of air, saving the lives of thousands of the First Race and also preventing discovery of their escape for a time.
I have a truly great brain, as all the oppressed admit, but details escape me.
My father has been building a ship for the past two years, hoping to escape to Ganymede, or some other moon of Jupiter.
If they did their air would all escape through the sphere.
Those few women who had accompanied their men to the metal satellite would, of course, be taken along, for the escape ship was commodious.
He took every wise precaution that his miraculous escape should be a profound secret.
Some circumstances mayescape your observation that my quick-sighted fears will seize on; at least I may serve as your notary.
Lloyd now cautiously informed her of the almost miraculous escape of Eustace, and the lively interest he took in his preservation.
He alternately punished and provoked every party; even his own agents and creatures could not escape his apprehensive suspicions, which, by indulgence, engendered an insatiable thirst of blood.
The white water to leeward warned me of a shoal, and forced me to pull hard for the sound to escape being drawn into the breakers.
To escape the dangerous raccoon oyster reefs of the shoal water the canoe was forced into a deeper channel, when the lively porpoises chased the boat and drove me back again on to the sharp-lipped shells.
The heavy weight of people began to settle the floor, and as two joists gave way I struggled to escape through an open window, thinking we would be precipitated into the cellar below.
These cheerful suggestions caused a peculiar creeping sensation to come over me, but I tried to quiet myself with the belief that the sharks had followed the blue-fish into deeper water, to escapecold weather.
I leaped out and drew my precious craft away from the tide, breathing a prayer of thankfulness for my escape from danger, and mentally vowing that the canoe should cross all other treacherous inlets in a fisherman's sloop.
The wind was not free enough to permit us to weather it, so we decided to beach the boat and escape the furious tempest.
In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.
The one and the other alike escape them; for they bear within them, untold, unacknowledged even to themselves, the presentiment of a life that mere liberty can never give them.
The bardic literature, by its lengthened existence through the whole of the Middle Ages, did not escape this danger.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
For many faults do often escapeour eyes; but the infirmitie of judgement consisteth in not being able to perceive them when another discovereth them unto us.
But he drew me into the deep, and I was scarcely able toescape from him.
If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life.
Thus we can escapehere from the onus which presses on the theory.
But his peaceful disposition once roused, and my inflammable nature crawls into the darkest corner under the bed to escape the sight of the consequences.
We who have been lucky in escape from evil--shall we cast her out of the house which has a cross above its roof?
He could not stay long with us in the station as he was going to some political meeting, and perhaps it was well, because Brand was naturally anxious to escape from him before Elsa came.
We, her friends, gave her up for lost, though we prayed unceasingly that she might escape death.
On more than one night while they were there an escaped prisoner was in the cellar below, with a German uniform and cypher message, and all directions for escape across the lines.
It had been compiled by a prisoner in the Citadel and given to Eileen as a proof that his own hope of escape was not in vain, though she had warned him of the fearful risk.
Cover thine eyes, cover thine eyes, abject animal, and let not thy fear escape thy lips, at least, in my presence.
The Huron in the bows of the leading canoe had risen with a similar object, and he now fell backward, suffering the gun toescape from his hands into the water.
His forehead became contracted by frowns; low curses began to escape him.
Of course a pathway was left, indeed more than one, to provide a way of escape if the Bothy should happen to be blockaded.
It was only in the early mornings, in company with Kennedy McClure, that she could escape from her wooers.
He was taking care that his ex-spy did not take it into his head to escape the ordeal of the morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escape" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
