Do we say getaway or get away

getaway 43 occurrences

On the other hand, if he eludes his captors and makes a clean getaway and his army is again unfortunate, and he is captured the second time, the perfectly good escape from previous captivity must go unpunished and he must be treated as a prisoner of war, just as though he had not made the successful dash for liberty and further glory.

Where she can't get an earful, and where she can't make a getaway; you come on over here a minute.

Jules, for instance: if he saw you making a getaway and knew it might mean a term in a French prison for him....

And the word is that he was seen coming this way both at Slide Out and crossing Old Man's River after he made his getaway.

"You've got a bare chance for a getaway if you travel light and fast.

Your chance for a safe getaway rests on one thing.

"Did you know that they are enlarging the secret tunnel in the new Friary so that Toxen Worm can get his getaway if the occasion should arise?

"Quick work, no talk, and a getaway," he said as he swung down to the ground.

"Mr. Paredes," he said, "will have to be a slick article to make a clean getaway.

How did you getaway?" "I took a week's leave.

"Now for our getaway," he cried, and the three fire-bugs ran for the window by which they had made their entrance.

They got a shot or two at me, hit my wrist, but I made my getaway.

Nor make a getaway.

In my day I've done my share of brawlin' around, but I'm too stiff in the joints to make a fast draw and getaway now.

They've laid their plans for a time-fuse and a quick getaway.

" THE GETAWAY By O.F. LEWIS From Red Book Old Man Anderson, the lifer, and Detroit Jim, the best second-story man east of the Mississippi, lay panting side by side in the pitch-dark dugout, six feet beneath the surface of the prison yard.

CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Getaway.

A clean getaway.

R580177. Clean getaway.

A clean getaway.

" "Was the kid mixed up in your getaway?

He had hoped for a swift and quiet getaway.

"A clean getaway, barring the little damage we've takenthis window, and Alden, and" "Better unpack your kit, and settle down," the Master dryly interrupted him.

What are they?" "International Air Board headquarters, in Washington, has been notified of our getaway.

Then you'll know I ain't figurin' on stealin' your car and makin' a getaway.

get away 1534 occurrences

You must get away from the jungle for a while.

Didn't you run the Two Dollar Hat Store that time in Syracuse and get away with it?"

"Get away from the horse!"

For a moment he sat quiet and then burst out: "I cannot get away: I cannot escape," and the veritable look of some trapped creature came into his eyes, fear so abject that I reached over and laid my hand on his arm: "Friend," I said, "stop here.

" "How did he get away?

Haines, I'm askin' you man to man, was there any one ever born who could get away from four men like us?" CHAPTER XXVIII WHISTLING DAN, DESPERADO

She was a little frightened now, lest by chance there should be a premature revelation, for in the rush to get away the girls dropped the paper they had been reading.

They will want to thank you for our escape if we get away, and for your kindness even if the worst comes to the worst.

But Katherine said nothing at all; she only stumbled to her feet in blind haste and hurried away, knowing that collapse into undignified babyish crying was inevitable, and anxious to get away to some place where she might be hidden from the eyes of the others.

After we had gone down the road for about two hundred yards I thought that my best plan was to get away over to the left a bit, as the greatest noise seemed to come from there.

Then I don't get away from myself!

He may get away if we don't.

It's the way of the world, and we can't get away from it.

Let's get away!

" "You don't mean to say, Chase, that you'll stay on this demmed Island if the chance comes to get away," demanded Lord Deppingham earnestly.

Even if one could get away for a day there is no temptation to ride about that desert-looking country, with the sun burning down on one; no one but a salamander could stand it.

Alone, she asked herself what Kate Wilkes had done to get away with eccentricities, to which only those of stardom are entitled.

"When I know his mind, and that there's no hope of turning him, I'll get away quietly, and find some new home.

He didn't get away and say: "Now, if I am going to get pure I shall do it by shutting men out."

Tailors are indiscriminately Parsees, Mohammedans, or Hindus, the latter-named being the least desirable, as they will neither eat, drink, nor cook in a European manner, and are always eager to get away by half-past four in the afternoon.

I tried to get away then, but I was locked in.

She was not afraid of snakes in the daytime, and when she was unbound, but she shrieked and turned cold at the thought of one wriggling across her feet while she was powerless to get away.

He has to standhe can't get away.

To get away, to escape, to leave Russia and everything in it behind me!

"Get away, Rollo!"

Do we say   getaway   or  get away