Use escaped in a sentence
Sentences starting with escaped
- Escaped the dangers of the storm, she sheered into her course again, and ran away to the south-west, until Hispaniola came in sight. [11]
Sentences ending with escaped
- She was not wholly free from guilt, for her note had really contained an invitation to a meeting; yet she escaped. [10]
- Bryant and Halleck were abundantly praised; hardly any one else escaped. [6]
- But the deed was done--the man escaped. [5]
- Still they continued to see the remains of former warriors, who had been to the place where they were now going, some of whom had retreated as far back as the place where they first saw the bones, beyond which no one had ever escaped. [5]
- And his overwhelming thought was of relief that he had somehow escaped. [9]
- Octavianus had half surrendered to her, but recovered his self-command in time, and a man of his temperament does not readily succumb twice to a danger which he barely escaped. [10]
- Elephant raged around streets; two plumbers going by, killed one--other escaped. [5]
- This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
- Scared as though some imminent horror threatened herself, she clasped Melissa's hand as she listened to the tale of the dangers Alexander had so narrowly escaped. [10]
- He insisted on seeing every secret door, and ran first down and then up the hidden stairs by which Melissa had in fact escaped. [10]
Short sentences using escaped
- Nothing escaped his scorn. [11]
- A groan escaped Lady Belward. [11]
- After two years he escaped. [11]
- Marry, some would have escaped. [5]
- Dingley ain't escaped from gaol. [11]
- And now--she had escaped. [9]
- The architect has escaped. [5]
- The others have escaped. [11]
- Not a sound escaped either. [11]
- Janet had escaped. [9]
Sentences containing escaped two or more times
- Isis meanwhile had escaped to land in one of the small boats, and was now running hither and thither on the shores of the lake, with streaming hair, lamenting her dead husband and followed by the virgins who had escaped with her. [10]
More example sentences with the word escaped in them
- No word of your discourse escaped me. [10]
- Yet not a word which could have resembled a question escaped his beardless lips while he examined, sewed, and bandaged the deep sword thrust with the skill and care of a surgeon. [10]
- Not a dissentient word was heard-indeed, the man who should have dared to utter one would certainly not have escaped unpunished. [10]
- But not a word of the sovereign had escaped her, and, though she still lacked the power of speech, she found courage to smile and shake her head in denial. [10]
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- So he escaped with a sentence of exile from the city for five years. [10]
- Having got his will, he was now ready to give that same fortune to the good of Egypt--but not to beys and pashas and eunuchs (and that he should have escaped Mizraim was the marvel beyond all others! [11]
- A good dog will bark at a woodchuck-hole long after the animal has retired to a remote part of his residence, and escaped by another hole. [4]
- Assa escaped his wife's scolding, but a thousand curses have fallen on him and on his house. [10]
- Then this man, whom nothing escaped which could by any possibility be made to serve as a clue, said: "There are cases in detective history to show that criminals have been detected through peculiarities, in their appetites. [5]
- It was she who spoke most, and Alexander, whom nothing escaped that had any form of beauty, feasted his ear on the pearly ring of her voice. [10]
- Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
- Mr. Paul Pardriff, who had a guilty conscience about the clipping, and vividly bearing in mind Mr. Blodgett's mishap, alone avoided young Mr. Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. [9]
- Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. [5]
- Her grandson Hanno, who escaped with his life, at the bidding of his father Satabus, who revered his mother, had made his way to her amid great perils to convey the sorrowful news. [10]
- They ground their white teeth with fury and nothing within ken escaped their bright hawk's eyes. [10]
- For a good while I said to myself every morning: "Now I have escaped thus far, and so the chances are just that much increased that I shall catch it this time. [5]
- Besides, many words which the two exchanged escaped her hearing, for they talked in low tones, and it was hot in the tent. [10]
- Nothing of that which passed between Amasis and Psamtik has escaped thine ears. [10]
- The manner in which he had looked at me then had puzzled me; it was as though he were seeking to divine something in me that had escaped him. [9]
- All the galleys which had escaped from the battle had entered the harbour the day before, wreathed with garlands as if a great victory had been won. [10]
- The caution with which Charmian had concealed Barine's refuge had not escaped her notice, and she did not ask to learn it. [10]
- Daly and Clemens were old friends, and it would seem that Daly could hardly have escaped seeing the play when it was going the rounds. [5]
- Thousands of people were made so sea-sick by the rolling and pitching of floors and streets that they were weak and bed-ridden for hours, and some few for even days afterward.--Hardly an individual escaped nausea entirely. [5]
- Then, if there were anything that a good woman could do to win a man and still preserve her self-respect, it was something which escaped the natural subtlety of a woman determined to allure. [13]
- Then, as they were about to seize him, he had turned the murderous weapon still wet with his victim's blood, on himself, and thus escaped the avenging hand of justice. [10]
- Nothing of what went on around her escaped Sabina's little eyes, and she had observed that while the governor was considering the document addressed to him he had moved uneasily. [10]
- His book is well written and is exceedingly entertaining, and so it just barely escaped being quite valuable also. [5]
- It's only four weeks since you were court-martialed, and you escaped being reduced by the very closest shave; and yet you come and make love to me, and want me to marry you. [11]
- I knew the way through the mines outside, and just escaped by the skin of my teeth. [11]
- All he said was, "Me no see all sides house same time"; so suggesting that, as the room had windows on all three sides, Louise must have escaped while he made his supposed sentry- go, slip-slopping round the house. [11]
- Suddenly, when he was within fifty paces, a cry escaped me,--I should have known that smiling, sallow, weakly handsome face anywhere in the world. [9]
- The entire caste was to suffer for the sins of him who had escaped punishment. [10]
- The old man was rejoiced to learn that his granddaughter had escaped so great a peril uninjured, yet he was still burdened by sore anxiety. [10]
- Among the prisoners was Garrett Enderby, who had escaped from his captors on the way from Enderby House to London, and had joined the Scottish army. [11]
- Just as he was better acquainted with every province than the most experienced governor, with every band of soldiers than the sergeant, so nothing escaped him which concerned the private lives of those whom he valued. [10]
- Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
- The defiant lad was a noble fellow, after all, and risked his own chance in behalf of one who, if he escaped with him, threatened to bar the way in which, in youthful blindness, he hoped to find happiness. [10]
- The play is vulgar melodrama, out of which has escaped altogether the refinement and the romantic idealism of the stirring romance of Dumas. [4]
- That will await us as soon as we have escaped the present peril. [10]
- He knew the two first very well, and not a word of what they were saying escaped his keen ear. [10]
- But I will try; for He did, though He might have escaped, for our sins and to make us happy. [10]
- The quicksilver turned to vapor, escaped through the pipe into the pail, and the water turned it into good wholesome quicksilver again. [5]
- I was going to offer him my parting salutation, but he turned his back upon me, saying: Once more you have escaped punishment, Athenian; but you cannot elude my vengeance. [10]
- They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims have descended. [5]
- She was dearer to him than all the rest of the world; and he had in his hand what kept them apart--a sentence of death, unless he escaped from the wanton calling him to fulfil duties into which he had been tricked. [11]
- Her hand went to her heart with a gesture of pain, and a little cry of misery escaped her lips. [11]
- Mr. Temple escaped to England in a man-of-war; he left me without a line of warning, of farewell. [9]
- That man tried to catch me; we escaped somehow or other; and now he is trying a new way. [5]
- From time to time some small organ which had escaped earlier observers has been pointed out,--such parts as the tensor tarsi, the otic ganglion, or the Pacinian bodies; but some of our best anatomical works are those which have been classic for many generations. [3]
- At the same time it had not escaped his logical mind that Mrs. Constable had made her final plea on the score of respectability. [9]
- It was some time before it cleared, but, when it did, and he knew beyond peradventure the crushing, everlasting truth, not a sound escaped him. [11]
- What memories passed through him were too vague to record; but a heavy sigh escaped him, followed, however, by a cloud which gathered on his brow. [11]
- That day I threw Chartersea's presents out of the window, but my father made the servants gather them all which escaped breaking, and put them in the drawing-room. [9]
- Caracalla started as though he himself had been the injured victim, and watched, but in vain, to see the supple Tarautas, who had escaped such perils before now, free himself from the weight of the German's body. [10]
- I lived again those moments that had followed Nancy's surrender, seeking to recall and fix in my mind every word that had escaped from her lips--the trivial things that to lovers are so fraught with meaning. [9]
- Not one of those escaped tarantulas was ever seen again. [5]
- I know all this, and yet it is as firmly established as Alpine mountains----" Here a low laugh escaped the Emperor's lips. [10]
- And who should this be but Captain Willing's own brother, escaped from the fort, where he had been a prisoner. [9]
- The fact that there was a vacant chair on the side opposite us had by no means escaped the notice of That Boy. [6]
- Had she stopped there she might have escaped unpunished; but there were two hungry little beaks agape in the nest, and she saw a pretty lamb with a little red flag on its back. [10]
- Presently he paused; then tapped his forehead several times with his fingers, as if trying to recall some thought which had escaped from his mind. [5]
- The eyes under them needed to be taken on trust, they were so well concealed, but when they peered through the narrow chink between the rows of lashes, not even a mote escaped them. [10]
- All escaped from the town but a policeman. [5]
- She had escaped the suspicion, if not the censure, of the world--or so she thought; and in the main she was right. [11]
- You have escaped the storm once, but new and far heavier ones are gathering above your heads. [10]
- Tom told them the rascal had escaped, but they must needs come in and have jigs and toddies until midnight. [9]
- The brothers, at the onset, took the advice of the old man, and escaped through the opposite side of the lodge. [5]
- I escaped from the house and went to the house of a neighbor where a playmate of mine was very ill with the malady. [5]
- But suddenly, as the gentleman turned, she caught sight of him, and from her lips escaped a cry of relief. [9]
- The recruiter escaped the first blows aimed at him, making play with his fists until he had an opportunity to draw his revolver. [5]
- Surely it was the Egyptians whom Moses' curse had robbed of thousands of beloved lives, while the Hebrews had escaped their revenge by flight. [10]
- They have escaped the dangers of the wave, and lie still henceforth, evermore. [6]
- When I escaped the cruelties of Pirats and most furious stormes, a long time alone in a small Boat at Sea, and driven ashore in France, the good Lady Chanoyes bountifully assisted me. [4]
- He is of the blood, and I pray that Jethro has escaped the sentence which my father passed," answered Fleda. [11]
- It is said that they had escaped before the mob rushed on the house. [10]
- I do suspect that they escaped, but if they did, I am not sorry, certainly. [5]
- Finally, she resolved that she would endure the attentions of the rich lovers no longer; so one stormy night she escaped and went down the river and hid herself in the cave on the other side. [5]
- I confess, madam, that I do something in the way of editing and lecturing, but the other crimes you mention have escaped my memory. [5]
- The chances are, that he would have escaped away with his pockets full, and jibed at me from a safe distance. [4]
- They told him, that he had been lying in a violent fever for weeks, and had only escaped death by the special mercy of the gods, the skill of the physicians, and the unwearied nursing of his mother. [10]
- Has he escaped that hardening of the nature, that drying up of the sweet springs of sympathy, which usually attend a long-continued selfish undertaking? [4]
- Among the houses that had escaped was that of Rufinus, and thither the Kadi escorted Orion and Paula. [10]
- Well, I've escaped that fate, because this was a good ship, and all the officers knew their business, and did it without cruelty. [11]
- There were some that believed he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging. [5]
- He was to tell her this very day what he had discussed and accomplished with the Prince and at Dortrecht, for hitherto no word of all this had escaped his lips. [10]
- But their owner suddenly sprang from a ditch near by, and he barely escaped his pursuit. [10]
- Whoever had already succeeded in filling a jar had obtained the water from the overflow which had escaped through the quickly-made dam. [10]
- Many times this strange rider, at once well known and unknown, had escaped pursuers by matchless riding. [13]
- We encountered terrific storms at sea, and could not have escaped with our lives, if the big-bellied Samian galley, with her Ibis beak and fish's tail had not been so splendidly timbered and manned. [10]
- She took a step nearer, and a cry escaped her. [9]
- Horror came upon Stafford, but no cry escaped him. [11]
- Then he suddenly sprang up, and, beside himself with rage, he interrupted the terrified Egyptian and railed at him furiously: "My Tarautas, who had so narrowly escaped death! [10]
- Jake Wheeler or Speedy Bates, the journeyman tailoress, from whom little escaped, could not have said it was by design--thought nothing, indeed, of that part of it. [9]
- Lise had escaped so far, but drunkenness was an ominous sign. [9]
- One man alone, shouting for joy, is like a madman escaped from an asylum, but when thousands of men rejoice together it must have a powerful effect on the coldest heart. [10]
- Still, the great shield had turned many a spear, and many an arrow had glanced harmless from the brazen armor and helmets; the men that had escaped pressed onwards, while fresh ranks of soldiers made their way in, over the bodies of the fallen. [10]
- In sixteen hours she was attacked with the symptoms of puerperal fever, and narrowly escaped with her life. [3]
- Her forehead contracted, she started with a slight convulsive movement, and then her lips parted, and the cry escaped from them,--how heart-breaking when there is none to answer it,--"Mother! [6]
- How gladly would she have escaped, or have sunk into the earth! [10]
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