Because that man was a fugitive from justice, who had broken his ban.
To cry out at the first post that they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!
When he had been going on thus for about two years, he was suddenly met in the street by one of the neighbors of his old master, who immediately arrested him as a fugitive from slavery.
An innocent, good natured old colored man, a fugitive from Virginia, had for some time been employed to work on the farm, and the family had become much attached to him.
When he had heard a statement of the case, he asked the agent of the slaveholder to let him examine the Power of Attorney by which he had been authorized to arrest a "fugitive from labor," and carry him to Virginia.
This girl was strong and vital: how would she take it when she learned that she had cast her lot with a fugitive from justice?
The Governor of Georgia charged the captain with slave-stealing, and demanded his return as a fugitive from justice.
In the requisition, Governor Reynolds stated "Joseph Smith is a fugitive from justice, charged with being accessory before the fact, to an assault with the intent to kill, made by one O.
At the same time he said the Constitution and the laws of the United States required him to take the course he did regarding Joseph Smith as a fugitive from justice.
He knew that President Smith was not a fugitive from justice; and, even if the false and malicious charge had been true, he knew the Prophet was entitled to a fair and legal trial in Illinois, not Missouri.
To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice.
Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.
In October, 1853, the case of Louis, a fugitive from Kentucky on trial in Cincinnati, was brought to a conclusion in an unexpected way.
Conversation with Mrs. Elizabeth Cooley, a fugitive from Norfolk, Va.
Five hundred dollars fine constituted the penalty for hindering arrest, or for rescuing or harboring the fugitive after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor.
Conversation with Jacob Cummings, a fugitive from Tennessee, now living in Columbus, O.
Mr. Scott for Henry Scott was the name, he was a fugitive from Virginia he came here from Pittsburg Pa.
There has been no evidence offered that he was a fugitive from a state of slavery!
He told me on the way out that Smith was a fugitive from justice; that he'd be likely to get ten years or more when they took him back East.
Williams was by this time far past remembering that his adviser was a man with a possible alias and presumably a fugitive from justice.
Because a degraded wretch like that La Voisin, in her delirium of agony, has spoken the name of the Countess de Soissons, she shall become a fugitive from justice?
A fugitive from oppression, and the kinsman who should have protected her--her oppressor!
Is this, indeed, the Marchioness de Montespan, whose entrance is greeted like that of a sovereign, while the Countess de Soissons wanders in foreign lands, a fugitive from justice?
That fellow is a fugitive from justice, if he isn't something worse.
You may have left your homeland in disgrace, you may even have been a fugitive from justice.
He confessed frankly to me this morning that he is a fugitive from justice.
On the Irrawaddy you made the acquaintance of a man who came out here a fugitive from justice.
An absolute stranger, a man with a past, perhaps a fugitive from justice; and because he looked like Arthur Ellison, she was seeking his acquaintance.
How does it happen," he then asked, "that you lived in Pennsylvania so long, and no person knew you were a fugitive from labor?
Why," he answered, "they say you are a fugitive from justice.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fugitive from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
