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Sentences starting with escape

Escape was his sole ambition now. [11]
Escape to some other world? [11]
Escape was not enough for him. [11]

Sentences ending with escape

Your head, if you let the jade and her brothers escape! [10]
Then we heard Xavier's voice, in French, thanking the Blessed Virgin for our escape. [9]
I held the woman I hated in my grasp, and thanked the immortals for the boon; but you two--it is not difficult to guess the secret you are still trying to keep from me--you aided her to escape. [10]
It was just what I needed, in order to carry out my project of escape. [5]
Lord bless me, what an escape! [5]
His one thought was of escape. [9]
The young soldier was not willing to encounter the jeers of his comrades, by letting the vagabond escape. [10]
Oh, come, let us go, let us escape. [11]
The apartment was unfurnished, and they recurred to the fact that they wanted a furnished apartment, and made their escape. [8]
His mother and two noble sons were snatched from him in a day; and he would again have had recourse to poison as a refuge from all, if a dim ray of hope had not permitted him to believe in their escape. [10]

Short sentences using escape

You can't escape your responsibility. [9]
She cannot escape us. [11]
However, few escape that distinction. [5]
His Majesty does not escape. [9]
None can escape it. [5]
Did they all escape? [10]
Lise struggled to escape. [9]
There was no escape. [5]
They shall not escape us. [5]
You can't escape Destiny. [11]

Sentences containing escape two or more times

We are always trying to escape winter when we are not trying to escape summer. [4]
Poor helpless creatures, they were in a trap; they were surrounded; they could not escape to the rear, for there was our army; they could not escape to the front, for there was I. [5]
It is only --the other worries from which we do not escape, from which we do not wish to escape. [9]
She was the one who mattered in that thought of escape escape to some other parish, to some other province, to some other country--to some other world! [11]
He thought only of escape, and of escape from that quarter of the city that was the witness of his labors and his failure. [4]
She only said, as she rose to go with the guard: "It is true, I have wanted to escape, and I do want to escape. [5]

More example sentences with the word escape in them

He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
To escape fear, you will thrust your wife from the house; fear, you say, would undermine your strength. [10]
By-the-way, what do you think of the escape suggested by the Spectrum, in the assertion that you and Evelyn had arranged to go to Europe? [4]
Although we struggle, yet by habit, by self-indulgence, by lack of a sustained purpose, we have formed a character from which escape seems hopeless. [9]
But I will write out his wonderful escape in full to-morrow or next day. [5]
The novelist who would turn loose upon society an insane murderess could not escape condemnation. [5]
Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
Not for the world would a young creature like Iris have let such words escape her, or such thoughts pass through her mind. [6]
It was a world from which I was determined to escape at any cost. [9]
His escape would work upon her mind. [11]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
I have sympathised with the just, but I have always felt that I'd like to help the criminal to escape his punishment. [11]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
Venters did not wish to lose the meat, and he never allowed crippled game to escape, to die lingeringly in some covert. [13]
She did not wish to hear it, but could not escape and clenched her white teeth indignantly. [10]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
Thus no one who valued his life could escape the watchful eye of the police, and the thief sacrificed the best part of his gains in order to save his life. [10]
With those animals which were benefited by living in close association, the individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers, whilst those that cared least for their comrades, and lived solitary, would perish in greater numbers. [1]
Only the mind which is capable of comprehending the laws of Nature can escape the danger of mistaking the fortuitous, and ever changing reality, for the eternal and unchangeable truth. [10]
It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
Do you know what lies before you, if it should be discovered that you have covered the escape of the prey whom the patriarch already sees in his net? [10]
The members of what had once been an army--Napoleon himself and all his soldiers fled--without knowing whither, each concerned only to make his escape as quickly as possible from this position, of the hopelessness of which they were all more or less vaguely conscious. [2]
But say, Paaker, what devil of amiability took possession of you down by the river, that you let the rascal escape unpunished. [10]
If the prisoner were to take advantage of his freedom and attempt to escape, the jailer's feelings would be hurt, and public opinion would hardly approve the prisoner's conduct. [4]
And suppose we were to escape, what would they say of you! [9]
The two former were to attend to the sick in the infirmary, to ring the bell and chant the services as usual, that the escape of the rest might not be suspected; and Joanna, Paula, and Pulcheria, were to assist them. [10]
But Macnamara's wits were not wool-gathering, and when Slatin said to him, "If I escape, I will try to arrange yours," Macnamara replied, with a respectful but placid stolidity: "Right, sir. [11]
But as he went towards Mizraim's quarters he saw no sure escape from the stage of those untoward events, save by the exit which is for all in some appointed hour. [11]
As soon as we fell, the sergeant let go the horse, and it went off; so that escape was cut off. [5]
I say if we escape, because, as we sail out, orders will be given for the other mutiny ships to attack us. [11]
No escape that way, even if she could still run. [4]
Stafford saw the way of escape for Jasmine slowly open out, and went on quickly. [11]
She knew there was no immediate escape from the encampment. [11]
The whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers. [10]
This night there was increased alertness, owing to the escape of Carbourd; and himself, if not more closely watched, was at least open to quick suspicion owing to his known friendship for Carbourd. [11]
The matron's voice was full of bitterness as she greeted her young visitor with the exclamation "You look as if you had fled to escape persecution! [10]
At this junction was formerly a convict station called Port Arthur--a place hard to escape from. [5]
The King's heart was filled with joy--he could make his escape, now, if Hugo's quest only carried him far enough away. [5]
His record, therefore, was fairly clean until two days after the escape from the Thames and the sighting of the Portsmouth fleet. [11]
So the departure was delayed, and only the brave defence of young Philotas, Didymus's assistant, and some of the Ephebi, who joined him, enabled them to escape unharmed. [10]
The Prince's heart was beating high with hopes of escape, now. [5]
Shure, the blessed Virgin, or the Almighty himself, couldn't escape the tongue of Augustus Burlingame--not even you. [11]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
Baton, hat, and veil skimmed by and disappeared, and the crash of the rocks--which I had started--as they fell on to the glacier, told how narrow had been the escape from utter destruction. [5]
You'll agree with us, that to give him even the most distant chance of escape, if we could help it, would be monstrous. [12]
You say with us, no doubt, if somebody must escape, let it be any one but he. [12]
But none of us is always in the comedy spirit; we have our graver moods; they come to us all; the lightest of us cannot escape them. [5]
Mr. Flint looked up from the papers, and regarded him narrowly, for the tone in which this was spoken did not escape the president of the Northeastern. [9]
But I trotted up and down, plans of escape already running through my head. [11]
A young woman unmarried, she said, always has the uneasy sense of the possibility--well, it is impossible to escape slang, and she said it with the merriest laugh--the possibility of being left. [4]
There was an undertone of reflection in the voice which did not escape Mrs. Crozier's senses, and it also caught the ear of the Young Doctor, to whom there came a sudden revelation of the reason why Burlingame had left Mrs. Tynan's house. [11]
After one or two vain efforts to escape, Mrs. Gregory Thorne and Lady Lawless resigned themselves to the attentions of Mr. [11]
The tables had turned since leaving the island, and the senator held it in his power to ruin our one remaining chance of escape. [9]
A poor devil trying to escape the law! [11]
We were both trying to be free, to escape. [9]
Val will not try to escape. [11]
But if so true and warm a love unites you to young Eysvogel, how does it happen that your joyous courage is so little damped by his father's denial and his own unhappy deed, which at this time could scarcely escape punishment? [10]
We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history. [5]
Then my father tried to escape the final destruction by attempting to kill himself.--Is it so? [10]
A great emigrant train from Missouri and Arkansas passed through Salt Lake City and a few disaffected Mormons joined it for the sake of the strong protection it afforded for their escape. [5]
Many a time, too, was Punch displayed in the full zenith of his humour, but all this while the eye of Thomas Codlin was upon them, and to escape without notice was impracticable. [12]
He had heard, too, that they shrunk from no lies, no fraud to escape their toil, and how difficult was the task of compelling them to obey and fulfil their duty. [10]
He regarded it, too, as a dispensation from Heaven that Agatha and Melissa should have happened to meet, and Alexander's happy escape had taken a weight from his mind. [10]
And now a Tomcat has got one of the Fishes and she will surely escape with him. [5]
It was better to walk than to sit alone in torment, to be gnawed by that Thing from which she had so desperately attempted to escape, and failed. [9]
To fear or to try to escape that force, to address entreaties or exhortations to those who served as its tools, was useless. [2]
Firstly, he was to try escape by the small window of the dungeon. [11]
She was delighted to think of what Herse's face would be when, on her return home, she should discover that the prisoner could make her escape even without shoes. [10]
I myself saw to the horses which transport them thither and heard Pentaur, one of the crown-prince's fan-bearers, call to them, 'Keep eyes and ears open, and let the house of Rhodopis be surrounded, lest he should escape by the back door. [10]
Then he turned to the governor, who did not care to risk his life in the way of escape. [11]
He was about to steal to the door and escape before she waked, but she turned round, moved through the doorway, and glided down the hall. [11]
I now propose to point out some discrepancies in the General's address; and such, too, as he shall not be able to escape from. [7]
It didn't occur to me that you would care--for the first few years," he added, and there was in his voice a note of reproach that did not escape her. [9]
Washington, in order to make sure of his escape, and feel safe while he was still constrained to attend his father's church, went stealthily to Trinity Church at an early age, and received the rite of confirmation. [4]
Eva forced herself to listen and behave as if her account of Heinz Schorlin's wonderful escape and desire to enter a monastery was news to her. [10]
The Soldiers seem to know what they have been sent to do; there can be no question that they delay so long only in order to give their favorite time to escape. [10]
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging. [5]
Arsinoe was beginning to hate her benefactress and everything that surrounded her, and the hours of catechising and of prayer, which she could not escape, were a positive martyrdom. [10]
Then he turned to go, politely bowing to me, but turned again and said, "I would not, were I you, trouble to plan escape these months yet. [11]
She was glad to find escape from them in practical activity. [2]
I want you to escape, and I tell you to go now. [11]
The one resolution to escape rose stronger and stronger within me, and I determined neither to eat nor sleep until I had got away. [9]
His only chance to escape lay in abandoning the stolen horses and creeping away in the sage to hide. [13]
Are they both to escape justice on that account? [5]
It was partly to escape from this question that he hurried down-town, and decided to spend with the Leightons the hour remaining on his hands before it was time to go to the reception for which he was dressed. [8]
That's awful..." and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her. [2]
But when, struggling to escape from the ruffian's clutch, she again turned her face towards the hall, what a transformation had occurred! [10]
Those who wished to escape fasting are now compelled by poverty to practise abstinence. [10]
Lee was allowed to escape again and the war went on for another two years. [7]
The Arbusers liked to come to this place as early as possible to escape the society exactions of the city. [4]
My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
I was forced to climb the main rigging in order to escape being hacked to pieces. [9]
It is not to be wondered at that people crave office, some salaried position, in order to escape the anxieties, the personal responsibilities, of a single-handed struggle with the world. [4]
That you intend to assist him to escape from justice? [9]
In a revolutionary time, when great questions are in issue, minor matters, which may nevertheless be very important, are apt to escape the consideration they deserve. [4]
If we get time, the night of the escape, we'll dig one. [5]
Mrs. Pratt had time, although she did not hear the cry for help, but woke up some moments later, to run to that room--and there she found these men standing and making no effort to escape. [5]

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