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Sentences starting with escaping

Escaping the English war-ships, she fell in with a pirate craft. [11]
Escaping to Holland on a night when everything was taken from him save his honour and his daughter, he had lived there with Mistress Felicity, taking service in the army of the country. [11]
Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed face in the lace of her mother's mantilla--not paying the least attention to her severe remark--and began to laugh. [2]
Escaping from the city itself, he could but die in the desert. [11]

Sentences ending with escaping

What steps will you take to hinder a single one from escaping? [10]
The Bishop was triumphant; his adherents had won the day at every point; nor was he sorry to learn that Olympius, Helladius, Ainmonius and many other spiritual leaders of the heathen world had succeeded in escaping. [10]
To uphold the exhibition of noxious agents in disease, as the rule, instead of admitting them cautiously and reluctantly as the exception, is, as I think, an eddy of opinion in the direction of the barbarism out of which we believe our art is escaping. [6]

More example sentences with the word escaping in them

Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
By day we were all crowded into one small, stifling bar-room, and so there was no escaping this person's music. [5]
Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
I am leaving those I love dearly, very dearly, and yet I feel as glad as a bird escaping from its cage. [10]
He had taken this method of escaping to our lines. [9]
At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight--and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians. [2]
He had expected the greatest success from his Polyphemus hurling the rock at Odysseus escaping in the boat, and a gigantic smith had posed for a model. [10]
The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was! [5]
Not one of the Egyptians who knew the captain of the prisoners' guard had ventured to send an arrow at the escaping prisoners. [10]
She sat behind the bookcase with her eyes fixed on a streak of light escaping from the pantry door and listened to herself and pondered. [2]
Even should she succeed in escaping, she could not hope to regain her lost peace of mind. [10]
As the escaping soul found its wings, spread them, and rose from that dun morass called Life, the Sieur de Mauprat, giving a long, deep sigh, fell back in his great arm-chair dead, and the silver snuff-box rattled to the floor. [11]
It must be some strong compulsion which bound her to Caesar, and she could never have looked at him thus unless she had some scheme--in which, perhaps, the lady Euryale meant to abet her--for escaping her imperial suitor before it was too late. [10]
Well, good-morning," he said, for Lindau appeared not to have heard him and was escaping with a bow through the door. [8]
I learned to read and write, and all that is usually taught to the priests' sons, but never to accommodate myself to my lot, and I never shall.--Well, when my beard grew I succeeded in escaping and I lived for a time in the world. [10]
With a sigh of relief Joshua told himself that he had seen the flying Ephraim and that, come what might, the escaping youth had gained a considerable start of his pursuers. [10]
With many species of butterflies the upper surfaces of the wings are obscure; and this in all probability leads to their escaping observation and danger. [1]
Who ever heard of a state prisoner escaping by a hickry-bark ladder? [5]
Most Moths rest motionless during the whole or greater part of the day with their wings depressed; and the whole upper surface is often shaded and coloured in an admirable manner, as Mr. Wallace has remarked, for escaping detection. [1]
He thought no more of escaping from himself, but of subduing himself, stamping out the appeals of his lower nature. [4]
He publishes a monograph on the painters of Spain, artificial, confident, rhetorical, acute: as fascinating as a hide-and-seek drawing-room play-- he is so cleverly escaping from his ignorance and indiscretions all the while. [11]
The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought. [6]
Spelman took the message and brought back the English reply, whereupon Powhatan laid the plot which resulted in the killing of Captain Ratcliffe and thirty-eight men, only two of his company escaping to Jamestown. [4]
You have dragged me all over the continent, and I didn't suppose there was any way of escaping the rapids. [4]
Carson streets seldom look inactive on Summer afternoons, because there are so many citizens skipping around their escaping hats, like chambermaids trying to head off a spider. [5]
Another half-hour, wherein he was learning every minute, nothing escaping him, everything interesting him; his grandfather and Mrs. Gasgoyne especially, then the ladies retired slowly with their crippled hostess, who gave Gaston, as she rose, a look almost painfully intense. [11]
His uneasiness arose from a misgiving that the old man had some secret store of money which he had not suspected; and the idea of its escaping his clutches, overwhelmed him with mortification and self-reproach. [12]
The Colonel smoked for a while, not a word escaping him, and then he patted Virginia's cheek. [9]
If he risked escaping from the camp now, he could not fail to be seen and stopped. [10]
The first thing Dyck had done, after escaping from the river, was to study the wants of the Ariadne and make an estimate for the future with Greenock, the master. [11]
Tasmania was a convict-dump, in old times; this has been indicated in the account of the Conciliator, where reference is made to vain attempts of desperate convicts to win to permanent freedom, after escaping from Macquarrie Harbor and the "Gates of Hell. [5]
Gradually Ditmar became conscious of this detachment, this new evidence of an extraordinary faculty of escaping him that seemed unimpaired. [9]
No wonder that but one party, escaping from Macquarrie Harbor convict settlement, arrived at the civilized region in safety. [5]
He reached the bar and grounded the boat in shallow water; but by that time the flames had closed around him, and in escaping through them he was fatally burned. [5]
She longed most ardently to get away but, ere she succeeded in escaping from the friendly old noble, two gentlemen hastily entered the brightly lighted entry, at sight of whom her heart seemed to stop beating. [10]
He fell without a sound, and lay upon his face--he did not hear the hoofs of the escaping horses nor any other sound. [11]
Her saying seemed a commonplace at the time, the essence of its meaning escaping us; but one sees now that it contained a principle which lifted it above that and made it great and fine. [5]

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