When I saw him some years later in London, he was changed, looked older, had lost his gaiety, was evidently bored with the official entertaining, and used to escape from all the dinners and receptions as soon as he could.

Compare what you have written with the account of Crusoe's escape to the island (Appendix 5).

" "And the escape of Darrow.

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

Besides, an opening to escape in the direction of the laboratory might offerI, as well as they, believed in luck judiciously assisted.

Thus far every effort to escape by taking to the water had failed, and he seemed to think, as Martin expressed it, that "day was breaking.

Perhaps a wild idea of escaping into the cold, dark night outside, aided by a sheet or blanket, flashed through her brain.

There was no escape for these three.

Then ensued the briefest possible pause, in which a figure moved across the bars of light escaping through the chinks of the laboratory, and then the whole valley blazed with patches of vari-coloured fire.

Seeing that the animals were bound to make their escape without his killing one of them, unless he had a better weapon, I rode up to him, gave him my old reliable "Lucretia," and told him to urge his horse close to the buffaloes, and I would then give him the word when to shoot.

He was one of those who had escaped out of the mines; but what was it to me whether they caught him again or not?

A few men ran round by the wharf and escaped on the tidal flats of the St Charles.

If they wheeled about suddenly, taking the chances that one might be killed in the squabble, it would have been possible to overpower us, even though they were without firearms; but it was the probability of our doing some considerable execution before knocking under that prevented them from escaping at the favorable moment.

They are as eager to escape as we.

Nearer, we see detached plumes and leaves, now speeding by on level currents, now whirling in eddies, or, escaping over the edges of the whirls, soaring aloft on grand, upswelling domes of air, or tossing on flame-like crests.

He will find it hard to escape after this.

That I found was beyond all doubt the case, and it now remained for me to make my escape before being found there in that hideous situation.

The Princess was very kind indeed to her, and, she added, was making secret arrangements for her escape across the Russian frontier into Germany.

So the Neapolitans got into Velletri, barricaded themselves there, and, escaping during the night by the southern gate, recrossed the Neapolitan frontier, the King foremost in the van.

While he was earnestly cautioning Lucifer against this Cardinal as one who could and would cheat the very Devil himself, another key turned in the lock, and Benno escaped under the table, where Anno immediately inserted his finger into his right eye.

When Geoffrey Yorke had finished the ample and delicious supper with which Miss Euphemia's hospitable and pitying soul had furnished him, he lighted his candle and made thorough search of his temporary prison to ascertain whether he could escape therefrom.

"I would rather all the rebels in Bacon's army should have escaped than this one.

The old have been butchered, because unfit for slavery, and the young have been carried off, except such as have fallen in the conflict, or have escaped among the woods behind us.

He declared that there were no less than twenty dead savages lying nearabout the place when he started for the fort, while as many more, badly wounded, were putting forth every effort at escaping beyond range of our gun.

Many fled to Veii instead of returning to Rome: only a few, who had escaped along the high road, entered the city by the Colline gate.