No man speaks to him, and everyone flees from him, so that he is driven to go among the poor ragamuffins at the Roode Valck to drink his quart of bruinbier by himself.
After Brynhild's death Gudrun in her sorrow flees to the court of King "Half" of Denmark, where she remains seven years.
Then, afraid to be called to trial and sentenced to death for breaking the rules of the camp, Rinaldo flees to Egypt.
To escape from her pursuers, Erminia flees into a trackless forest, where, after wandering some time, she meets a shepherd, who gives her an asylum in his hut.
But, when blood gushes from its stem, and when Clorinda's voice informs him he has wounded her again, he flees without having accomplished his purpose.
When the fool attempts to seize Timias, Serena, terrified, fleesshrieking into the forest.
Glancing upward and perceiving by the position of the heavenly scales that the issue of a combat would not be in his favor, Satan wrathfullyflees with the vanishing shades of night.
He flees because he saw iniquity and held silence.
He who is allured to fornication, but yet is not induced to its accomplishment, drinks a deadly drink, but it shall not hurt him, if with prayers he flees to God.
As water rushes from the hill and stands in the valley, so flees the Holy Ghost from the heart of proud men, and takes his dwelling in the humble, as the prophet said, "In whom resteth the Spirit of God but in the humble?
As long as we guard it ourselves even sleep flees away, and we find relief only when we put some one else to watch for us.
Darkness flees from that place whither Thou turnest thy countenance, and under the gleam of thy glances flowers blossom.
Everything is nerveless and void of beauty; everything is flameless and passes and flees and bends and sinks down unsupported.
In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
The Count-Bishop flees for his life to Chalons, and when he was assailed there, he was so frightened that he put an old saddle on his back and came out of the city gates in that fashion to beg for mercy.
His dark blood drips down his skin of snow, beneath his brows his eyes wax heavy and dim, and the rose flees from his lip, and thereon the very kiss is dying, the kiss that Cypris will never forego.
From that day her he follows, And flees not to the wild wood But joins the Loves, and always He bears Love's flame unflinching.
Literature, above all in its most typical mood, the mood of narrative, similarly flees the direct challenge and pursues instead an independent and creative aim.
He who flees like a thief in the night from the service of his country is a deserter; he breaks his word and he does not know what honor means.
So a child who knows no way out for himself, no help any more, flees to his mother.
Yet, as the fragrance over valleys spread Is scattered by the wind's fresh blowing breath, Along the sloping terrace flees the throng.
Nor did he cease to cry horribly aloud, even as a bull bellows when after an ill stroke of the axe it flees from the altar.
David flees before Saul, and leads the life of an outlaw.
Primitive man fleesfrom the corpse--indeed, even from those who are sick, if he sees that death is approaching.
At death, the soul is believed to remain in the body, wherefore primitive man flees in terror from the corpse.
Primitive man, as we have seen, flees from the corpse.
For the Holy Ghost, who is the true enlightener of hearts, flees from the ungodly, and chooses holy souls only, to make them friends of God.
At dawn, one flees the fierce tigers; In the evening, one flees the long snakes Who sharpen their fangs and suck blood, Destroying men like hemp.
When a self-righteous man discovers himself at last to be a whited sepulchre, and counting his own righteousness filthy rags, flees to Christ as his righteousness, he is instantly accepted in the beloved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
