The last of the fugitives formed but a cloud of black specks on the line of the horizon far off toward Brussels.
All day there had been a steady stream of fugitives out of the town, taking their belongings with them: the diligence was for the well-to-do and the indifferent who hurried away to England to await the advent of more settled times.
Oh, I know, myself, that fugitiveson hopes are pasture-fed!
At four o'clock in the afternoon the start was made, and so well did the men make the return trip that the fugitives from Springfield were reached about nine o'clock.
Captain Bee at once sent a man in search of the fugitives who were to be invited to return.
For an account of the discovery of the Springfield fugitives see that of Frank R.
The advance guard and the fugitives were found in the shelter of the creek willows over a mile from where they had been left.
Learning from thefugitives the facts concerning the presence of the Indians at Springfield, Major Williams decided to push toward that point as rapidly as possible.
Doubtless some one of the fugitives dropped it last night as they went in haste, hardly knowing they had it, perhaps.
They had, however, no more to tell me than I had already learnt, beyond tales of horror brought by the fugitives of last night, which I will not write.
When we came to the gate there was a little crowd following us, for word had gone round in some way that we were fugitives from Parret side.
Already we were passing groups of fugitives from the nearer country, and the town would be full of them, to say nothing of the men of the levy.
The fugitives had a good start, and, being the picked runners of the Cross-Roads, they crossed the open, weedy acres in safety and made for their homes.
The fugitives did not turn; they kept on running, and they had nearly reached the other side of the field, when suddenly, without any premonitory gesture, the elder Skillett dropped flat on his face.
Should the fugitives have made such a detour as I suggested there will be ample time to take them.
The distance across the harbor, the concealment afforded by the hulls of the vessels of the fleet, and the shadow of the sea–wall under which the fugitives had placed themselves, had prevented them from being seen.
Probably Hugo was as zealous as the occasion required in the investigation of the means by which the fugitives had escaped; but he was as much astonished as his chief when told that Bill Stout and Bark Lingall were gone.
The man was a stranger to him; for the fugitives had not employed a guide in Malaga, and therefore Jacob Lobo was all unknown to him.
After examining Bradshaw, they found the fugitives could take a steamer to Bona, in Algeria, and from there make their way to Italy or Egypt; and concluded they would do so.
At the suggestion of Raimundo, the fugitives coiled themselves away in the bottom of the felucca, so that no inquisitive glass on board of the vessels or on the shore should reveal their presence to any one that wanted them.
At the same time all the boats and vessels, loaded down with fugitives from the ruin, were sucked in by a fearful whirlpool; and not a vestige of them returned to the surface.
It is not our purpose to follow the fugitivesinto Africa.
On the rising ground, the lights revealed the position of the city; but the fugitives looked with more interest, for the moment, at the sea.
Filipe ran the bow of his craft up to the rocks on which the fugitives were standing, and they leaped on board of her.
Thus, contentedly and free from care, the three fugitives wandered on towards the south where on the frontier they expected their troubles to begin.
The fugitives often saw flocks of burhel--called nao in Bhutan--feeding on the precipitous slopes of the higher hills.
On their journey the fugitives met with wayfarers of every rank and class.
She invited the fugitives to share their meal, and bade her dutiful spouses serve the supposed lamas.
As the fugitives ran on the gorge narrowed until it was scarcely fifty yards wide, and they began to fear that it might prove only a cul-de-sac in which they would be hopelessly trapped.
In the villages the disguised fugitiveswere well treated.
The upflung spray and leaping waves hid the herd from the fugitives as they clung desperately to the ropes and to each other.
From now onwards, for two or three weeks, the fugitives led the lives of hunted rats.
In this disguise the fugitives met with no hindrance as they quitted the town for the open country, heading towards the south.
One of the fugitives immediately turned, and disappeared within the walls they had left; the other two concealed themselves in a thick grove, the darkness of which was deepened by the glare of torches along its borders.
But the noise of the fugitives scrambling on board the caique and the hoisting of the little boat brought round them a shower of bullets, the splash of which was heard above the rain.
The Bulgarians are sure to move, now that the Austrians have got Belgrade, and that means fresh swarms of fugitives from the east; it may also mean that communications with Greece will be cut.
During the next three days the influx of pale fugitiveswas like a scene upon the banks of the Styx.
Michael gave him five sovereigns; he walked quickly away, and the fugitives turned on their traces in the sand.
At that point the fugitives met and mingled with their brethren, flying as confusedly as themselves, from Auerstadt.
Hotly pursued by the victors, Colli rallied his fugitives at Mondovi, where they again yielded to the irrisistible onset of the French, the Sardinian commander leaving his best troops, baggage and cannon on the field.
Napoleon instantly changed the front of the Guard so as to throw its left on La Haye Sainte and its right on La Belle Alliance; he then met the fugitives and led them back to their post.
By that scheme the Fugitive Slave Law was made less offensive in two particulars, but the United States was to pay for fugitives from slavery whenever a marshal failed to perform his duty.
By his proposition the Fugitive Slave Law was to be repealed, and in its place the respective States were to return fugitives or to pay the value of those that might be retained.
Besides, the inhabitants might be sued before the town court only, and to fugitives from the country who had taken refuge in the town belonged a similar privilege.
Some peasants with whom they took refuge recognized Schell, and for a moment the fugitives gave themselves up for lost.
Some watchers for fugitives came on board, and Earlstoun and his companion were challenged.
Even the direction that the fugitives had taken Tarzan could only guess at by piecing together bits of fragmentary evidence gleaned from various sources.
Again she caught sight of the fugitives crossing the river below the cataract and again they were lost to sight.
The fugitives scarcely paused as these unexpected reinforcements joined them but they eyed Ta-den and Tarzan with puzzled glances.
Henry, in order to keep the pursuit in the main channel and let the departure of Tom Ross pass unnoticed, sent back a fierce and challenging cry, the first that the fugitives had given forth that night.
If Virginia resists, the contest cannot last very long, considering her large slave population, which will either become fugitives or take up arms against their masters.
That those who arrest and send back such fugitives identify themselves with the enemies of our Government, and should be indicted as traitors.
Doubtless between the middle of August when Vanderburgh and Drips set out on the chase and the middle of September when they ran down the fugitives the American Fur Company leaders had many a laugh at their own cleverness.
Mostly moonshiners and fugitives from justice, they cared far more for revenge and spoil than for the Union.
The long line of his Virginians stopped the fugitives and drove them back to the battle.
In their despair the fugitives shriek aloud for God's help, and the Psalmist has a stern joy in knowing their cries to be unheard.
As the disordered fugitivespoured in, they infected the whole with their panic.
The waves are closing over the persecutors, just as the last of the fugitives emerges safely on the land.
The fugitives dismounted at the turn of the Strada delle Vigne Nuove, and let the horses loose among the brambles.
Farther on, the fugitives met several men hurrying towards the town in search of news.
Neither of thefugitives uttered a word until they were far past the gate.
While the fugitives were enjoying Mrs. Higgins's hastily but adorably prepared meal, the details of the second stage of the flight were perfected.
Around, all was calm and serene as when the fugitives set out.
Darkness had passed away to reveal to the fugitives the father, master, and judge!
At this moment Hainoma, who commanded the reserve, came up with them, with the fugitives whom he had succeeded in rallying.
He was terribly exhausted when he got in," Mrs. Renshaw said; "and was looking almost as pale as death when we went into the light in the hut where the other fugitives had assembled.
As it was, all that could be done was for the artillery to shell the fugitives at long range.
The naval guns, however, lost their opportunity, since at that distance the swarm of fugitives was taken for British soldiers assaulting.
At dawn of November 28th the division got under arms and cheerfully marched off to disperse the handful of demoralised fugitives who were, it was reported, all that would be encountered at Modder River.
The men at the enemy's guns were bayonetted, and some volleys were poured in upon the host of fugitives tearing down the other side of the hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fugitives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
