The right and right centre of my division gained the summit first, they being partially sheltered by a depression in the face of the ridge, the Confederates in their immediate front fleeing down the southern face.
In olden time a criminal, fleeing from justice, who was able to reach and lift this knocker, was safe from arrest.
Apparently the council of war had been of brief duration, and must have settled on starting in pursuit of the fleeing German rearguard, for already the troops were in motion, with batteries hastening along the road taken by the enemy.
Later on heavier artillery would also be coming up to follow the fleeing German army, when the full importance of this ford would be better understood.
Being a French woman, and very sanguine with regard to the valor of her countrymen, the farmer's wife could already in imagination see the beaten Germans fleeing in mad haste before the invincible soldiers of the republic.
Many people were already fleeing madly from Belgium, now partly overrun by the vast invading army of the German Kaiser.
If they have the least intimation of a white man's approach, he stands as little show of seeing them as if they were some timid animal fleeing for life.
These same Apaches had penetrated too far into Tarahumari land, and after a disastrous encounter with the latter were fleeing themselves, when they met the defenseless Mexican and his wife and killed them.
Those were the peasants of Chartres valley who were fleeing from the Prussians.
They met at Murray Hill, and together galloped toward the sound of firing, but before they reached East River were met by their own troops fleeing before the British advance.
As soon as once assured that the defeat of the Provincials was overwhelming, Putnam lost no time in entrenching at Prospect Hill, the first spot at which he could halt his fleeing troops.
They had accused his sister, who saved her life only by fleeing to the wilderness and remaining in hiding until the insane furor was over.
Of course it was the fleeing zambo--there could be no doubt of that.
Carlos followed along with the victorious pursuers, now and then using his rifle upon the fleeing robbers.
In Georgia, for instance, there is a marvellous province called Hanyson, where once upon a time a cursed Persian king named Saures overtook a multitude of Christians fleeing from persecution.
They also have a great aversion to any token of religion, fleeing at the sound of a consecrated bell or at the sight of a soutane.
I met Gum in November, fleeing from the wrath of the home guards, as a man who had been in the Confederate Army could not live in safety in Missouri.
There was no concealment here, and besides the sounds came in a contrary direction to that taken by the fleeing man.
For the second time, Madeline Payne is fleeing away from Oakley and all that it contains; fleeing cityward to begin, with the morrow, a new task, and a new chapter in her existence.
And now, for the second time, this girl is fleeing away from Oakley.
He had lived two happy years with his young wife, and been six months the proud father of baby Madeline, when he fell a victim to his dangerous pursuit, shot dead by a bullet from the hand of a fleeing assassin.
He was directly in the path of the fleeing doe, and bore down upon her with lightning speed.
Another leap and it was free--fleeing into the face of the smoke.
I dipped my paddle and shouted words of scorn after the fleeing warriors.
Tyee praised, as the fleeing man pitched forward, the spear standing upright between his shoulders and swaying slowly forward and back.
Tyee saw Peelo drive to the earth as smote by a falling star, and the Sunlander and Neegah's daughter fleeing side by side.
Soon the tide of fleeing Frenchmen slackened, and the braver spirits, maintaining a running fight, alone remained to uphold the honour of the ill-assorted army of the citizens of Caen.
When he sat up the soldiers were calling wildly to the rest of the guard, while a fleeing figure, already growing small in the distance, showed that the fugitive Revyngton was well on his way to freedom.
Directly the advance guard of the fleeing army began to draw near, Raymond rose from the grass and ran swiftly towards the road.
He was fleeingbecause with the discovery of Ernest's duplicity, the entire edifice of his life had tumbled into ruins.
As if rooted to the spot she stood, with her four feet planted firmly on the ground, and they desisted in despair, once more fleeing to the hills.
From the coach windows on one side, the passengers could see Rafael Perez, Ignacio Garcia, and Pio Estrada fleeing across the parched and tawny flat on their plunder-laden, loping Manchegan ponies.
The Portuguese royal family arrived in Brazil, fleeingbefore the arms of Napoleon to the colonies.
He dropped the large piece of cloth he had torn from Simon's trousers and kept on after the two other fleeing individuals.
He was fearful that Grit would get one of the fleeing ones down and set his teeth into his throat.
Briton moving on with the children, and the swan-song of a Maestoso was borne along before the fleeing youth.
What cries of pain now burst forth everywhere, As from the fleeing hordes one hears, amid This wild confusion and this change of form In limbs and shapes, their roars and bellowings.
Then follows the account of the tumultuous rout, wherein the fleeing hordes, in their descent to Hell, also undergo a metamorphosis into the forms of strange and uncouth monsters.
It is all we can do now to prevent the people from fleeing again to the plain, when all their crops would go for naught.
One of the Clark brothers who shot at a fleeing man in the Dupoyster cornfield, said the prisoner was the same man; the other said he was not, but the testimony of the first was accepted.
