44 Verbs to Use for the Word runaway

The shot took partial effect, but failed for the moment to stop the runaway, who succeeded in scrambling off into the wood.

Onesimus was not thrown into prison and then sent back in chains to his master, as your runaway slaves often arethis could not possibly have been the case, because you know Paul as a Jew, was bound to protect the runaway, he had no right to send any fugitive back to his master.

how all you husbands band together like a parcel of slaveholders, and hunt down each other's runaways!" Mr. McLean laughed.

Ascertained hiding places of runaway slaves were to be raided by constables and posses, and these were to be rewarded for taking the runaways alive or dead.

Even Huckstep said that this was too badthat he had himself formerly punished runaways in that waybut should not do it again.

"Several years ago I was going below New Orleans, in what is called the Plaquemine country, and a planter sent down in my boat a runaway he had found in New Orleans, to his plantation at Orange 5 Points.

The glowing pokers, however, that were their only weapons of defense, were also their chiefest danger, and a pack of about a dozen Crows soon discovered that they could follow the runaways by the gleam of the rods.

Old master told me to run and catch the runaway.

"Shall I help you to a light?" "Oh! Mr. Truck!" cried Mrs. Legend, following the chafed animal to his corner, as one would pursue any other runaway, "instinct has brought you into this good company.

" In the same number of the Spectator two Justices of the Peace advertise the same runaways, and give notice that if they do not immediately return to W.D. Cobb, their master, they will be considered as outlaws, and any body may kill them.

I have known runaways to be whipped for six or seven nights in succession for one offence.

It is always understood that such intelligence will reach the runaway; and accordingly, at the entreaties of his wife and mother, the fugitive once more consented to return to his bitter bondage.

The master can now and then, however, get some of his hands to betray the runaways.

The law, enacted in Virginia in 1705, authorizing any two justices of the peace "by proclamation to outlaw runaways, who might thereafter be killed and destroyed by any person whatsoever, by such ways and means as he might think fit, without accusation or impeachment of any crime for so doing," besides that it justifies what I have just said about hunting fugitive servants, shows, 1st.

" Miss Dale seized the bridle of her father's horse in time to prevent a runaway.

Forthwith Alsatia was up in arms for society and a triple alliance of missionaries, whalers, and cannibals combined to intercept the runaways.

Did you meet a straggling runaway, friend, in your journey hither?" [Footnote 1: It would seem, from this declaration, that certain legal antiquarians, who have contended that the community is indebted to Desire for the unceremonious manner of clipping the nuptial knot, which is so well known to exist, even to this hour, in the community of which she was a member, are entirely in the wrong.

Realizing that it would be hopeless to try to overtake the runaway, and fearing that some injury might befall Tom, Mr. Wilder shouted: "Rope the black, Bill!

What, Richmond, will you prove a runaway? RICH.

It was a common thing for speculators in slaves to purchase runaways for much less than their original value, and take the risk of not being able to catch them.

They stood their ground, and having rallied the runaways of both the other parties, charged me with their pikes, and brought me to a retreat; but by this time the king had sent over 300 men more, and they coming up to me, the foot retreated.

Just as we were filing out into the dark, Sergeant Rosenthal, who was also going along, halted us and reminded us all and severally that we were not prisoners, but still guests; and that, though we were to march with the prisoners to the station, we were to go in line with the guards; and if any prisoner sought to escape it was hoped that we would aid in recapturing the runaway.

After some disputing, Neptune, to quiet the strife between the goddesses, proposes that Diana shall restore the runaway to his mother, in return for which he will release the land for ever from its virgin tribute.

It was on returning from a pleasant ride that our heroes had seen the runaway with which we are immediately concerned.

At sunrise he left his dog in charge of the flock and set out to seek the runaways, knowing, first, that there was little danger in the day-time, second, that some would escape.

44 Verbs to Use for the Word  runaway