The four captives then contrived to escape; but the rope which held the basket in which Carpillona was let down snapped asunder, and she fell into the lake.

Disgusted with her master and with her life, she befriends another woman, even more helpless than herself, and by stratagem and force of will contrives her escape (1852).

Duth-Carmor of Cluba had slain Cathmol in battle, and carried off Cathlin by force, but she contrived to make her escape and craved aid of Fingal.

CHILDE HAROLD, a man sated with the world, who roams from place to place, to kill time and escape from himself.

CLAIRE TWINING, daughter of a refined man, the scion of an old English family and a vulgar woman who marries him to escape from poverty.

She made her escape from the Etruscan camp by swimming across the Tiber.

Colmal, who was in love with Calthon, set him free, and the two made good their escape to the court of Fingal.

Thought was busy in laying plans for escape, and I reached home in the greatest excitement imaginable.

Suppose he should, and ask me where those nails came from? O, how my poor brain was racked to invent some false story by which I could escape detection!

If hands were thrust through holes in a boardfence, and nothing of the attached bodies seen, I can easily imagine that some would attract and others repel us: with footprints the impression is weaker, of course, but we cannot escape it.

"She cannot escape me!"

I was glad to escape the worry of questions, and the conventional sympathy expressed in inflections of the voice which are meant to soothe, and only exasperate.

I was acquainted with his history, of which the details escape me at this writing.

When Charles was brought to the castle he was treated more as a guest than a prisoner, but after his attempted escape the king was much more closely watched and his pleasures curtailed.

Captain Titus and others of the guard had been won over to assist the king, and had King Charles negotiated the narrow window, in all probability the escape would have been a success.

I must go, old fellow; but I know all that you would say to me, and I will endeavour to escape honestly from this trouble.'

Yes;to escape honestly from that trouble!

It is just that trouble from which there is no honest escape,unless a man may honestly break his word.

After all that had passed in the linen-closet, what escape would there be for him?

As I am not at all disposed to be either so indulgent or so correspondent as they desire, I have but one bad way left to escape the honour they would inflict upon me; and therefore am obliged to desire you would make Dodsley print it immediately (which may be done in less than a week's time) from your copy, but without my name, in what form is most convenient for him, but on his best paper and character.

Shakespeare, it is true, sometimes introduces us to improper company; at others, he suffers ambiguous expressions to escape in the presence of women, and even from women themselves.

And yet with calm presence of mind I watched for the slightest sign of joy in you, so that not one should escape me to impair the harmony.

Evidently the savages were ashamed to let their enemies escape for lack of one audacious assault.

You shall not escape it.

They were like men who should enter the cavern of unknown goblins to escape from demons who were following visibly on their footsteps.