The baroness had search made for him; but he knew so well how to escape his pursuersthat he was not seen again at the manor.
He was too cunning for us, and got such a start of his pursuers that there was no use trying to follow him.
Do not delay, for, although you are a great way from the Indian town, there may be many and swift pursuers upon your trail.
The moon arose toward midnight, and so lit up the wood that it would have been exceedingly dangerous for him had hispursuers been anywhere in the vicinity.
Late at night, several of the pursuers returned, moody and sullen with their ill success.
The spouting on the reef drew nearer, and Dane's voice seemed to break up in his throat, for unless Rideau could clear it during the next few minutes the pursuers felt sure of him.
Rideau had changed clothes with one of his followers, and sending him on for the pursuers to follow, had landed and vanished into the forest.
Then a black form rose upright with paddle swung high, and a long sea rose between the pursuers and the canoe.
Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley.
Then I overheard the following conversation: "Your pursuers are here.
Then we four who had ridden out from the shadow of death gave voice to our triumph, and from the rear came a yell of rage, telling us that it yet remained to shake off the pursuers who were bent on taking us, dead or alive.
We there stood ready to fire in case the pursuers came up before the steeds were ready for the road again, and word had been passed that we should give our attention to crippling the enemy's horses rather than the men.
The story of Margaret Catchpole, which has now become almost classic, may be cited as a good illustration of the way in which the pursuers were handicapped, when the fugitive had had a few hours' start.
As it was, the pursuers reached London the following day and Margaret was arrested just as she had concluded a sale of the horse with a dealer.
The excitement seemed to bring Jack more and more to the front, and those who followed read in his actions why it was that he had been successful in freeing them from their pursuers at the time of the escape.
Emma von der Tann cast a single backward glance over her shoulder, as her horse regained his stride upon the opposite side of the gully, to see her two foremost pursuersplunging headlong into it.
But two of the horses of her pursuers were as swift, and under the cruel spurs of their riders were closing up on their fugitive.
His pursuers were almost upon him when he seized the rude ladder to clamber upward.
He wished that he might find other clothes, since if he were dressed otherwise there would be no reason to imagine that his pursuers would recognize him should they come upon him.
A mile away she saw the head and shoulders of a horseman above some low bushes--the pursuers had found a way through the gully.
Then he turned to look back up the road in the direction from which his pursuerswere coming.
The top of the ascent lay but a few yards ahead, and the pursuers were but a few yards behind.
The shouts of their pursuers fell clearly upon their ears, and the Princess Emma, turning in her seat, could easily see the four who followed.
His pursuers had not gained upon him, but they still were coming.
If he could but throw his pursuers off the trail for a while he might succeed in escaping through the wood, eventually reaching Tann on foot.
A hundred yards from the road the trees were further apart, and through them the pursuers caught a glimpse of their quarry.
Down the wide path leading toward the river, the hoofs of the horses of the pursued and the pursuers thundered.
Splendidly he sat his horse, as his pursuers thundered toward him, and with taunting shouts called to him that he was caught at last.
The natural conclusion was that the horsemen, warned by the whirring of the propeller, if not by the actual sight of the aeroplane, had taken shelter in one of the more rugged or more thickly wooded places until the pursuers had passed.
As they turned the corner, and passed out of sight, the sharp crack of rifles followed them; but the pursuers had not dismounted to take aim and had fired a thought too late.
They gained the bridge, saw at a glance that the pursuers were still several hundred yards away, and seizing the rope began to swing themselves hand over hand across the stream.
Meanwhile the Pathans and theirpursuers had disappeared along the track.
Apparently they were now hopelessly dispersed, and he could not help thinking that such of them as escaped the guns of their pursuers would hasten up the valley towards their homes.
Lawrence, glancing over his shoulder, saw that it would be quite impossible to reach the bridge before the pursuers came up with them.
He may know;" and without hesitation he ran after Ned for a few hundred yards, till the boy stopped to gaze about him wildly, as the voices of their pursuers were now very plainly heard.
Frank led on, but at the end of half an hour no likely spot had been found, and distant shouts told that their pursuers were closing in.
He feared that his pursuers might divide, and some of them start around the other way, so as to come upon him from the opposite side.
By this time the pursuerswere close at hand and gaining fast.
The most athletic man living could not leap across that chasm, nor could it be passed until it was bridged artificially, and that could only be accomplished from below, where the pursuers were glaring across.
Long moved to the point at which he saw he was aiming, and held his Winchester ready to open on any pursuers that might try to follow him.
Inasmuch as the American was resolved to avoid injuring the dusky Hercules, it will be observed that there were two of the company of pursuers whom he was much more anxious to spare than he was to inflict harm upon the rest.
The frightful occurrence brought the pursuers to a halt and gave the fugitives a minute or two in which to prepare for the end.
If the pursuers could not reach them, neither could they return over the chasm by which they had attained the spot where they still defied him.
Their arrival complicated the mystery and strengthened convictions of the loss of both pursuers and pursued.
Plainly his intention was to draw pursuers within rifle shot.
Gale saw how the space widened between pursuers and pursued, saw distinctly when Ladd eased up Sol's running.
But the others looked, and the time came when Gale saw the creeping line of pursuers with naked eyes.
Evidently he watched cautiously for signs of pursuersin the ruts and behind the choyas.
They accordingly set sail as soon as the English cruisers arrived within a certain distance, and running on, were quickly out of sight, leaving the pursuers fast aground.
There could be no mistaking the exertions of the crews of the two boats; the pursuers seemingly doing their best, as well as the pursued.
Of course, this greatly lessened the difference in our rate of sailing, and I had now strong hopes that night might come, before our pursuers could close.
But the leading boat lost by this delay, while its pursuers held steadily on.
Each instant, the pursuers closed, until they were actually much nearer to the pursued than the latter were to the Dawn.
Meantime our pursuers were watching for horsemen, not finding our abandoned horses, it seems, until Monday or Tuesday.
Pursued by 6,000 soldiers, the Confederates in that vicinity must ultimately rejoin their army farther south, but they harassed their pursuers for weeks in little bands rarely exceeding ten.
At every stopping place we left marks of blood from our wounds, and could have been easily trailed had not the pursuers been led in the track of our recent companions.
The channel was reached before our pursuers could get clear of each other.
Soon after noon it again fell, and our pursuerscrept closer to us.
Slacken yet more;" and before the pursuers could recover their confusion, a third fell, then a fourth, before the unerring shafts.
Their pursuers came fast and furious and the borderer knew they were gaining.
The trail with its twistings and its banks of forest growth prevented the pursuers and the fugitives from glimpsing each other.
They sped along the edge of the wood, spurred by the thought that the ruse would delay their pursuers and perhaps throw them off the trail altogether.
Shouts and calls from their pursuersbut a short distance behind now, lent wings to their feet.
Their pursuers could not know in which direction the footprints led.
He distanced his fierce pursuers at last and escaped to the temporary shelter of the woods.
Thieves and others of evil conscience would make a wide circuit rather than pass this abode of Alecto, Megæra, and Tisiphone, pitiless pursuers of the guilty.
A donkey had broken loose at the upper end of the Agora; he turned and stared at it and its pursuers intently.
Dashing headlong down it, I turned to right and then to left through its intricate windings, and as the footsteps of my pursuers sounded behind me, I suddenly became aware that I was retracing my steps to my tomb-like dungeon.
Barwang had escaped them by swimming against the current and not with it as they had anticipated he would; and once safely on the margin of the stream he felt he was secure, and stood pointing at his pursuers in derision and defiance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pursuers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
