Sir Samuel saw several lances pass close to his wife's head, and he narrowly escaped being hit on various occasions.

Polenap himself, by lighting on his men, who served him as cushions, barely escaped with life.

Fortunately he had escaped getting any of the quills in his mouth and tongue.

His step was firm, assured, and even; his carriage erect and easy, and his whole mien was strongly characterized by a self-possession that could scarcely escape observation; and yet his attire was that of an inferior class.

He reached the lift, happily escaping the observation of the young lady seated at her desk, and descended into the hall.

Miraculously escaping the shots aimed at him, he drew up alongside the officer and informed him that his life was to be forfeited for the insulting words he had uttered.

Yet their position demands that we, who have suffered with them and have luckily escaped, should speak for them.

"I went out to the landing, closing the door after me, with the idea of getting down the stairs and escaping into the garden as secretly as I had come in.

The same confidence produces insults and robberies, and that insensibility with which debauchery arms the mind equally against fear and pity, frequently aggravates the guilt of robbery with greater crimes; those who are so unhappy as to fall into the hands of thieves, heated by spirits into madmen, seldom escape without suffering greater cruelties than the loss of money.

Aren't you coming?" We both turned, and as she did so a low cry of blank dismay involuntarily escaped her.

The creature had found his way home within half-an-hour after I dismissed him, and had frightened Zevle [Stella] not a little; though the message, which a fatal result would have made sufficiently intelligible to Esmo, utterly escaped her comprehension.

The ship had gone to pieces not far from shore, and he and three other men had escaped safely to land.

To CURE A WHITLOW.As soon as the whitlow has risen distinctly, a pretty large piece should be snipped out, so that the watery matter may readily escape, and continue to flow out as fast as produced.

Unconsciously, a low exclamation escaped him.

It was acknowledged to be true in part by Warbeck himself, who, it has been shown since Walpole's time, in personating the Duke of York, admitted that his brother Edward had been murdered, though he asserted that he himself had providentially escaped.

Tom May was one of them, of course; rarely a pretty face escaped the tribute of at least one proposal from Tom May.

While the greater bulk of the total losses in killed and wounded before Verdun was sustained by the Germans, however, it must not be imagined for an instant that the French defenders of the fortress escaped lightly.

Those from which several canals radiate may be true craters from which the gases imprisoned in the heated surface layers have gradually escaped.

When he did so it was with no very pleasurable feeling; and it is probable that Marston, too, would have gladly escaped the coincidence which thus reduced them once more to the temporary necessity of a Tate-à-Tate.

All unity continually escapes me; it flies me as it were by a kind of enchantment.

Though the United States and Great Britain partially escape the effect, they too feel the influence of it, not only in their political serenity, but in the market of goods and values.

It is only the divine certitudes, which can exist under any external circumstances, that are of much account in our estimate of human happiness, and it is these which ordinarily escape the attention of historians when they paint the condition of society.

Ultimately, however, they all escaped, and remained unmolested at Amsterdam and the Hague, until the year 16O8, when they removed to Leyden with their pastor, where they resided for eleven years, and were joined by many others who fled from England during the early part of the reign of James.

At first sight it looked as if it had merely escaped from custody.

But all the captured rebels did not escape so adroitly as our Jesuitical friend Littleton; for several of them were either hanged or beheaded, and the fate of many was sealed on the site of the Church of the English Martyrs.