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Definition of Escaping
1. escape [v] - See also: escape
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escaping
Literary usage of Escaping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860)
"... A BILL amendatory of " An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice and Persons
escaping from the Service of their Masters," approved February 12, 1793. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... however, of escaping the flames of persecution, which were not attended with
an equal degree of guilt: the first, indeed, was generally allowed to be ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"... only the great central tower existed; so that he had not the same enormous
difficulty that I met- with in escaping; moreover, he had been imprisoned ..."
4. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"The whim of narrowly escaping by having been within a day of danger, with other
matters above- mentioned, mixed with good sense, left me at a loss whether I ..."
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