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Example sentences for "escaping from"

  • It was only a week ago, when Jacques had succeeded in escaping from prison, I offered to flee with him.

  • Upon Blangin's assurance, he expected the vagabond would jump at the mere idea of escaping from jail.

  • I thought of escaping from her; but a single glance moved me to the bottom of my heart.

  • The greatest relief of a man in the midst of misfortune is the hope of escaping from it.

  • I had just succeeded in escaping from a trap where I might have perished, or at least have been overwhelmed with shame, and I shuddered at the thought.

  • A way of escaping from a difficulty without satisfying impertinent curiosity.

  • The pleasure it afforded to aid such young women in escaping from a condition so loathsome as that of Slavery in Maryland, was unalloyed.

  • Illustration: Escaping from Alabama on top of a car.

  • These travelers succeeded in escaping from Geo.

  • Citizen president, I avow it with the fearless frankness of a good patriot; I was privy to my mother's first attempt at escaping from France.

  • With these and with money, it may not be impossible that they have already succeeded in escaping from France.

  • Have you any reason to believe that Superintendent Danville was privy to his mother's first attempt at escaping from France?

  • On the first attempt of my mother to violate the laws against emigration, by escaping from France, I failed in making the heroic sacrifice which inexorable patriotism demanded of me.

  • On escaping from prison he was for a time on General Sherman's staff and was selected to run down the Cape Fear River and carry the great news of Sherman's successes to the people of the North.

  • This brave functionary was unfortunately able to elude De Robiere's wrath by escaping from a side door.

  • I don't think there is anything that I have ever done quite so exciting as escaping from prison.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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