148 Verbs to Use for the Word escapes

By that means I could pull it down after me when I reached the ground, and so not only effect my escape but also leave the fact unknown.

He had forced the chisel away from the girl; he had kept it in his hand; in his eagerness to prevent his victim's escape he had not realized that he was holding it point upwards, and when he fell it had pierced him with all the force of his heavy body falling plump on it.

We succeeded in making our escape, though a farewell shot or two was sent after us.

And what was still more strange was that I had not energy to think of attempting any escape.

On letting the air escape from our machine, it did not now rush out with the same violence as before, which showed that we were within the moon's atmosphere.

He was typical of its spiritual as well as of its moral meaning; typical, too, of that mental unrest which sought escape from the pressing problems of an enigmatic present by reverting to the study of a classic past whose ethical, social, and political difficulties were rarely of a complex character, but concerned themselves principally with what may be termed the elementary verities of man's relations to the Deity and to his fellows.

But being afterward condemned to death on a charge of treasonnot an unknown charge, as Walpole imagines, but a charge of having treasonably aided the escape of the Earl of Suffolkhe was then, as More says, examined about it in the Tower, having probably made a voluntary confession of guilt to ease his conscience before his execution.

The short hours of daylight greatly facilitated his escape.

During this interval my mind was absorbed with our project; and when in company, I was so thoughtful and abstracted, that it has since seemed strange to me that Sing Fou's suspicions that I was planning my escape were not more excited.

Some people find the escape in novels that move faithfully to that happy ending which the tangled skein of life denies us.

Or, if he meditate his wished escape To some dim hill that seems uprising near, To his faint eye the grim and grisly shape, In all its terrors clad, shall wild appear.

Whatever the formation adopted, it should favor the escape of at least one man in case of surprise.

You owe your brother's escape this night to my knowledge of his innocence and the remembrance of my word.

He meant, of course, their narrow escape from being involved in West's supposed ruin, for at that time no one knew the report of the fire was false.

I had been found guilty on two indictments for stealing, upon which Judge Crawford sentenced me to twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary; while Sayres, on seventy-four indictments for assisting the escape of slaves, was sentenced to a fine on each indictment of one hundred and fifty dollars and costs, amounting altogether to seven thousand four hundred dollars.

"All we wish is to secure our escape.

Since his sovereign's death he had bent all the energies of his mind to contrive the escape of the queen, and he had so far succeeded that he had enlisted in her cause two men whose posts enabled them to give must effectual resistance: Michonis, who, like Toulan, was one of the commissioners of the Council; and Cortey, a captain of the National Guard, whose company was one of those most frequently on duty at the Temple.

A balcony running by her window had favoured her escape.

In the centre of the camp was a strong but rudely-erected log-house, that served the purpose of a council-chamber, and in this the prisoner, having been so bound as to render escape, unaided, a matter of impossibility, was left, while the warriors dispersed to their wigwams in search of refreshment and repose.

" "If it fail, others may suffer, but if necessary the Lone Wolf himself will arrange my escape from England.

The dough must be well "bound," and yet allow the escape of the little bubbles of carbonic acid which accompany the fermentation, and which, in their passage, cause the numerous little holes which are seen in light bread.

Lenore believed then that Nash had deliberately stalled the engine or disordered something, so as to permit the escape of the strange car ahead.

So the proposal from Randolph and Reginald that they come West and take the homestead near them seemed to offer an escape from much that was unpleasant.

Lord Cavendish generously offered to manage his escape, and to stay in prison for him while he should go away in his clothes; but Russell would not entertain the proposal.

Yet, spite of so narrow an escape from death, he was not the less determined to wound or destroy the creature, and, to this end, he dispatched some of us to the grove of reeds to get half a dozen of the strongest, and when we returned with these, he bade two of the men lash their spears securely to them, and by this means they had now spears of a length of between thirty and forty feet.

148 Verbs to Use for the Word  escapes