Quotes About Fled

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

Despite these gross exaggerations, even the most conservative estimates by modern scholars suggest that well over 10,000 slaves fled to the British in search of freedom, while the total number of blacks who served in the Continental Army was only about 5,000—and many of these, perhaps most, were freeman, not slaves.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.

Baldwin, was awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on Daphnusia.

We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.

Last winter Prince Hrobarik, not being so gracious, tried to hire me to find a beauty who, sick of his vulgar advances, had fled the ball, losing a slipper.

by Sherman, Johnston evacuated Jackson and fled east with his demoralized army, leaving

And i was gone.

Antony and other supporters of Caesar fled to their commander, who was waiting at the little

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

I hadn't the wit left to divert Mme. Pontchartrain's determined questioning. Fortunately, I had the wit to realize it, so I pled a cognac headache and fled.

So, darlings, when you read that a stage star has fled the reservation, bolted to Hollywood or taken a stance before a microphone or the TV cameras, don't judge her hastily. It isn't a case of infidelity, it's a case of survival.

You asked me for a rhyme, De Vangrisse reminded him. So I did! A rhyme for tout and fou, and you gave me chou! Whereupon you threw your wig at me, and I fled.

Right now it just felt . . . inevitable. And unalterable. She couldn't have changed her mind even if she wanted to. She'd fled, and there was no fleeing back. That would be worse than continuing to do nothing, than living with the status quo.

Christians are spoken of as those "that have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before them," Heb. 6:18

His countenance instantly assumed an aspect of the deepest gloom, and he replied, To seek one who fled from me.

At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.

Piglet," Bishop Wulfheard said in a scornful tone. I stared at him, then held up a hand to check Merewalh, who was about to leave the hall. "Maybe we don't need a piglet," I said slowly, as if an idea was just coming to me. "Why waste a baby pig when there's a bishop available?" Wulfheard fled.

Private Eye continued to report that the stench in the Houses of Parliament was just as strong as it had been on the day when the birds flew away and the rodents fled.

The day was lit with the beauty of the land forsaken, the night by the horror of returning to it. The day would show her the paradise she had lost; the night, the hell she had fled.