Immediate search was made, but they were not to be found; and it was supposed that they had escaped in a boat.
I escaped with only a few contusions about the region of the hip, which certainly lamed me for some time, and made the jolting more disagreeable than ever.
Thus far have I escaped suspicion-- Now will I to the monastery.
Leaving Selina and Harold to settle their feud by a mutual disinheritance, I slipped from the room and escaped into the open air, eager to pick up the loose end of my new friendship just where I had dropped it that morning.
The journey northward was an extremely fatiguing one, for they encountered such stormy weather that their boats more than once narrowly escaped being nipped in the ice.
In all his excursions in the open air she accompanied him; and when she knew that he was making preparations for another expedition, one involving life itself, not a murmur escaped her lips.
The frigid politeness of her brother's speech, too, had not escaped her notice.
How glad I am you escapedfrom those abominable men.
It is doubtful whether he would have escaped so cheaply, had it not been for Gladding, who, after he thought Basset had suffered sufficiently, came to his assistance.
The child seemed to have escaped thus far by miracle, but now it appeared impossible he would be able to maintain his place.
So far as could be gathered from the disjointed utterances that escaped him, he supposed that his own spirit was trying to escape from the body, and that the spirits of his brother and daughter had been sent to comfort and assist him.
The interior was almost as rude and unattractive as the exterior, the walls being coarsely plastered and dingy with smoke that had escaped from a cast-iron stove which stood in the centre of the room.
As he gazed, he began to fancy he discovered traits which had at firstescaped his observation.
For it cannot have escaped observation, that on all subjects but one Holden exercised an ordinary degree of judgment, a circumstance by no means singular in the case of persons affected with monomania.
The exclamation escaped involuntarily, but, with a natural politeness, the Indian asked no questions, but waited till it should please the squaw to furnish an explanation.
Not a hard drawn breath, not a single expression escaped his notice.
How many evils had I escaped had I heeded the advice I give!
The truth escaped me, as the torrent of the Mississippi breaks through the levee, and a passage once open for its exit, it cleared a way for itself, until the current of my feelings left no doubt of its direction.
Ships were building or equipping in all parts of the country; and it is matter of surprise to me that I escaped the fever, and did not apply to be made a midshipman.
This exclamation escaped him on passing as many sable Venuses, each of whom bridled up at the fellow's admiration, and doubtless was as much offended as the sex is apt to be on such occasions.
Tyroes have always exaggerated notions both of their rights and their duties, and I had not escaped the weakness.
It was one of those irrepressible "nigger gollies" that oftenescaped from the fellow involuntarily.
Once or twice, remarks escaped him as if he thought it possible I might one day return; but they were ventured in pleasantry, rather than with any appearance of seriousness.
Owing to these causes, I escaped a thousand lies about myself, my history, my disposition, character and acts.
But for this burst of feeling on the part of a grey-headed old clergyman, I am afraid our scene would not altogether have escaped ridicule.
I shall not attempt to repeat all that passed while the ship dropped down the bay; but enough escaped the gossips to render me still more unhappy than I had yet been, on the subject of Lucy.
As the last head sunk from view, I could see him shudder; a suppressed groan escaped him; then he turned his face towards the bulwarks, and stood immovable as one of the pines of his own forests, for a long time.
A block of wood could not have been more motionless than the body of this savage, after one quivering shudder of suffering had escaped it.
Every ragoût, in my opinion, should be dressed the day before it is wanted, that any fat which has escaped the skimming spoon, may with ease be taken off when cold.
The aperture thus exposed had not, in fact, escaped the eye of St. Aubyn, when about an hour afterwards the search for the lost boy was renewed.
His only child, a boy twelve years of age, had been for a year past afflicted with loss of speech and hearing, the result of a severe typhoid fever, from which he barely escaped with life.
An exclamation of pity escaped her when she saw it, for a stiff, sharp thorn had been driven completely through one of the cushions of the dog's foot, and around it the blood had dried.
The fact that Henry had been the first to make headway with the dog fancier, had not escaped him.
And now having escaped the prison bounds we will visit the public buildings of the town and take a peep at them.
It had not escaped the father's jealous eye that Big Mack Cameron found occasion for many a visit to the boys on an evening when the day's work was done, and that from the meetings he found his shortest way home round by the McGregor's.
They might have escaped had it not been that the Ottawa man found it impossible to refrain from hurling taunts at them and inviting them to battle.
I will leave the door of the cat house open, and when it is missed it will be thought that it has escaped and wandered away.
The meaning tone in which Jethro had called Amuba his son had not escaped either Amuba or Chebron, who saw that Jethro was desirous of concealing their names.
I do not wonder now that we were defeated yesterday, but that we so long held our ground, and that so many escaped from the battle.
I rejoice at seeing that you have escaped in the battle, for I marked you bravely fighting in the midst; but let me beg you to hasten on.
A deep depression had seized upon him; he cared not whether he escaped or not, and would indeed have hailed detection and death as boons.
After darkness set in great numbers of the Rebu troops who had escaped to the hills made their way into the town.
Amusis had escaped in the confusion, as had many others.
The owner of the camels had escaped unhurt, having remained during the fight hidden under some bales.
Hallowell, the Commissioner of Customs, escaped more serious handling.
Murray of Rutland, like Leonard of Taunton, escaped the attentions of his townspeople, who scorned the threat of confiscation and death, and demanded his resignation.
Besides the published letters which attest this I have found an extract from one which seems to have escaped the attention of Washington's editors.
This must have been a thumbscrew for the Secretary when he presently read the pamphlet that escapedhis officers.
She had escaped from the whirling vortex of life with strenuous effort, and dragged herself bruised and aching to the bank.
Morning and evening he visited her, yet failed to read that in her haunted eyes which could not have escaped a clearer vision.
There were other symptoms, very slight, wholly imperceptible to any but a trained eye, yet not one of which escaped Dr.
Of course I see your point, but it seems to me that it would be harder for him to see you starve with the rest of the garrison than to know that you had escaped with me.
She felt as a young wild creature suddenly escaped from the iron jaws of a trap in which it had long languished, and she rioted in the sense of liberty that was hers.
The leprosy does not come of sins which they committed, but of sins committed by their ancestors, who escaped the curse of leprosy!
The recruiter escaped the first blows aimed at him, making play with his fists until he had an opportunity to draw his revolver.
They could have escaped the day before, by ship to San Francisco; but the bars had been put up, now, and they might have to wait weeks before any ship could venture to give them a passage any whither.
In 1804 twenty-seven British convicts escaped from Australia to Fiji, and brought guns and ammunition with them.
The event proved that Robinson's judgment was soundest; but about once a month for four years the event came near to giving the verdict to the deriders, for about that frequently Robinson barely escaped falling under the native spears.
She reddened, and tried to conceal her confusion by putting back her hair, that somehow escaped in a strand about her ears.
Ned must have been tickled to see his escaped prisoner in such a cosy cachette as the Duke's Head, where he and I, and Andy Greig--ay!
I told them of Buhot, and how oddly he had shown his complacence to his escaped prisoner in the tavern of the Duke of Burgundy's Head.
Kilbride attempted to stop him, but the cassock escaped his hands and his own unwonted costume made a chase hopeless.
I'm the millstone on your neck, for had I not parleyed at the other end of the cord when you had descended, the necessity for it would never have escaped your mind.
By this movement the British escaped the enfilading fire of the Lewiston batteries, the steep ascent of the heights in the teeth of the enemy's field-works, and compelled him to change front.
The prisoners publicly declared that had they continued under our hero's command they would have escaped their doom, "being the victims of unruly passions inflamed by vexatious authority.
Those who escaped massacre at Mackinaw," said Henry, refilling his stone pipe and resuming his story, "were preserved for a worse fate.
So far he had escaped the hail of shot by a miracle.
Having escaped from death, the aforesaid warriors were granted the right to starve their bodies while improving their minds.
In the street he breathed with relief as if he had escaped from a house of great peril; but he did not feel safe until he had lost himself in the populousness of Oxford Street.
Having escaped from the hands of his assailants, he does not seem to have carried out his purpose of going to Ch'an, but returned to Wei.
Escaped from this strait, he remained in Ts'ai over B.
I have narrowly escaped being confined in a convent, by those who have already served my mother in the same manner.
Prince Galitzin escaped with his life, through the intercession of one of his relations, who was a favourite of czar Peter; but he was stripped of all his riches, which were immense, and banished to a place in the neighbourhood of Archangel.
In this region, formerly uninhabited, the Persians come at present, to hide from the rapacity of robbers, such of their effects as have escaped the fury of the civil wars.
The laws of logic are invincible; our four ships could not by any possibility have escaped the formidable American squadron.
For twenty-four hours it was supposed that St. Cloud had escaped altogether; but at the end of that time he was summoned before a meeting in the common room.
But this escaped him in his eagerness, and he wandered up and down their pages in search of quite another science, and of laws with which they did not meddle.
Most of them escaped without comment, the Squire simply pausing a moment, and then taking up his walk again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escaped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
