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Definition of Fleeing
1. flee [v] - See also: flee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleeing
Literary usage of Fleeing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization), Andrew Whitley (1992)
"KURDISTAN: ATTACKS ON fleeing REFUGEES Like Shi'a from al-Najaf and Karbala, many
of the refugees from Kirkuk and other northern cities told MEW they had ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"CHAPTER VII Of fleeing from vain hope and pride VAIN is the life of that man who
putteth his trust in men or in any created Thing. ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Annotation—May finding of premeditation and deliberation essential to murder in
first degree rest upon evidence that at the time defendant was fleeing from ..."
4. The Imitation of Christ: Four Books by Thomas (1877)
"Of fleeing from vain hope and pride. VAIN is the life of that man who putteth
his trust in men or in any created thing. Be not ashamed to be the servant of ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER VII Of fleeing from vain hope and pride VAIN is the life of that man who
putteth his trust in men or in any created Thing. ..."
6. The Law of Marriage and Divorce, Giving the Law in All the States and by Frank H Keezer (1906)
"fleeing from justice. 192. Defamation of character. 189. ... fleeing from justice.
In North Carolina, if the husband is indicted for felony, and flees from ..."
7. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"Nevertheless, the Jews have been fleeing to the woods with their gold, resolved
to take up their abode in the United States rather than fight for the ..."