Flee Sentence Examples

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  • Darian didn't flee, but suddenly, Jenn wanted to.

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  • If someone was able to track her, she needed to flee, fast.

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  • Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds.

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  • In alarm he wishes to flee, considering himself lost.

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  • At that point, people flee the land looking for a better deal.

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  • She wanted to scream, cry, or flee.

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  • He had to flee from Paris; and, though he found an asylum in the palace of Fontainebleau, his house was pillaged and his library burned in his absence.

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  • His temporalities had been seized, and he was obliged to flee from France.

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  • She yanked her hands free and stumbled around him, wanting to flee.

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  • But do thou flee, 0 Devil, for the judgment of God is at hand."

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  • Terrified, Sarah finally listened to Reese, and the two flee into the night.

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  • He is the warrior deity carrying the hundred knotted mace from whom all demons flee in fear.

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  • The nine teenagers, along with their guardians, flee to Earth and disguise themselves as high school students.

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  • But his success was short-lived, for in 1029 the Norwegian nobles, seething with discontent, rallied round the invading Knut the Great, and Olaf had to flee to Russia.

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  • When at last he was forced to flee from Constantinople, the bridge-keeper's son owned 320 houses in the city, and he had also acquired interests in banks and mines.

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  • After the first defeats he had to flee from France with the empress, and settled in England at Chislehurst, completing his military education at Woolwich.

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  • As the ferret enters the hole the rabbits flee before it, and are shot or caught by dogs as they break ground.

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  • El Ufrani writes that "it was besieged so closely that the Christians had to flee on their vessels and escape by sea, leaving the place ruined from bottom to top."

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  • Instead of sitting at Westminster he took part in the unsuccessful rising at Tunbridge in favour of King Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters.

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  • In 1899 Cavaignac was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the republic. He had announced his intention of retiring from political life when he died at his country-seat near Flee (Sarthe) on the 25th of September 1905.

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  • Ubanu, installed by the Boers as paramount chief in 18 9 4, was a sanguinary despot and was compelled to flee in 1898.

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  • Eusebius accepted the small bishopric of Emesa (the modern Horns) in Phoenicia, but his powers as mathematician and astronomer led his flock to accuse him of practising sorcery, and he had to flee to Laodicea.

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  • Balak angrily taunted Balaam with having lost the honours intended for him, and bade him flee to his own place.

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  • The tradition that he was forced to flee from France along with other nominalists, and founded the university of Vienna in 1356, is unsupported and in contradiction to the fact that the university was founded by Frederick II.

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  • Having to flee from Greece on account of a Syrian invasion they proceeded to Scandinavia.

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  • The cowed inhabitants had been trained out of all habit of acting for themselves by the imperial despotism, and could only flee or submit.

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  • After the Hundred Days, during which the king was forced to flee to Ghent, the dismissal of Blacas was made one of the conditions of his second restoration.

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  • Its policy "was to avoid notoriety and public attitudes; to secure privileges without attracting needless 1 A collection of these laws was published in his General History of Connecticut (London, 1781), by the Rev. Samuel Peters (1735-1826), a Loyalist clergyman of the Church of England, who in 1774 was forced by the patriots or Whigs to flee from Connecticut.

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  • Instead, she was greeted by shrieks from Martha and Gladys, causing her to drop the poor creature and flee in terror, stark contrast to her anticipated moment of glory.

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  • He continues to anguish with guilt and I fear in my heart the burden of his sins will soon cause him to flee in exile from these quarters he has arranged for us to share together.

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  • Thirdly, he was a great soldier who did not flee in the face of great, great animosity and opposition.

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  • Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

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  • It was a poor and largely depopulated city of ruins, and the inhabitants continued to flee in the face of the Ottoman threat.

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  • Pius IX, now Blessed, had been forced to flee Rome in disguise to save his very life.

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  • They flee the error of presuming on God only to fall into the trap of being gripped by an anxious dread of God.

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  • It was full of the sort of upper-middle-class Surrey women with sharp elbows you would flee from in a dark alley.

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  • However, he later reversed his loyalties and having joined the royalists had to flee abroad.

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  • Last year asylum-seekers were forced to flee the city after being attacked by thugs wearing knuckle-dusters.

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  • In politics he was a zealous Royalist, asserting that even the unjust and tyrannous violence of princes may not be resisted, although it might be avoided in terms of the instruction, "when they persecute you in one city, flee into another."

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  • But when it was discovered that he had bribed the Delphian priestess to substantiate his charge he was himself obliged to flee; he went first to Thessaly and then to Arcadia, where he attempted to foment an anti-Spartan rising.

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  • Oh my! if they only realized their limitations, they would flee for their lives to the woods and fields.

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  • But though they all realized that it was necessary to get away, there still remained a feeling of shame at admitting that they must flee.

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  • However, he later reversed his loyalties and having joined the Royalists had to flee abroad.

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  • In any case, what to do when Felix or Fifi flee?

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  • Limit the amount of space where your cat can flee.

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  • Two games, Flee Camp Jellyjam and Monster Feast, offer a slightly scary experience while other activities include a trivia game and a monster maker.

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  • When your brain perceives stress, your body releases adrenalin into the bloodstream, giving your brain the burst of energy it needs to fight, flee, or freeze.

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  • Dawit stated that she had run away because she could no longer feed her daughter and had "…decided to flee rather than watch her die."

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  • I must flee! >Mine foes shall suffer.

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  • Agoraphobia-Abnormal anxiety regarding public places or situations from which the person may wish to flee or in which he or she would be helpless in the event of a panic attack.

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  • Still other children flee out of romantic notions of being with a girlfriend or boyfriend.

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  • Flee markets, antique shops and similar venues offer a wide rage of possibilities.

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  • Nothing causes a Sag to flee faster than a potential romantic partner that has his days planned all the way to retirement!

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  • These activities and more led the family to flee the house after only 28 days on the premises.

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  • There appears to be a collection of Resurrection Cemetery ghosts who flee through the gates into the path of oncoming cars.

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  • Our heroes keep the Imperial Troops occupied until the evacuation of the base can be completed, and then they too flee into space.

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  • Gandalf is lost to an enemy in the Misty Mountains, and treachery reaches into the hearts of the company itself, as Boromir tries to steal the Ring from Frodo, forcing Frodo and Sam to flee alone, and the rest of the Company to follow.

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  • Often the painful sting occurs before the jellyfish is observed, leaving the victim no fair warning to flee their wrath.

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  • Deidre wanted to flee and never return, but she nodded at the young woman who almost seemed normal.

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  • It took every ounce of her willpower not to flee hysterically or give in to the desire to collapse and sob.

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  • Dhjan A'Ran's family was forced to flee with his few trusted advisors.

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  • I think aught will come of their rantings as the miners swear they'll flee the area for a more obliging locale if such nonsense were to happen.

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  • Albany's arrival in November 1521, with a large body of French men-at-arms, compelled Angus, with the bishop and others, to flee to the Borders.

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  • But in 1696 for his boldness in granting absolution on the scaffold to Sir John Friend and Sir William Parkyns, who had attempted the assassination of William, he was obliged to flee, and for the rest of his life continued under sentence of outlawry.

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  • Left to himself Innocent again had to flee, this time to Pisa.

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  • Ultimately the Bonapartes had to flee from Corsica (11th of June 1793), an event which clinched Napoleon's decision to identify his fortunes with those of the French republic. His ardent democratic opinions rendered the change natural when Paoli and his compatriots declared for an alliance with England.

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  • The portcullis was drawn up, and the besieged issued forth against the rebels, who were soon forced to flee.

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  • In 1868 Khudayar-khan, having secured independence from Bokhara, concluded a commercial treaty with the Russians, but was compelled to flee in 1875, when a new Holy War against Russia was proclaimed.

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  • Their worship was prohibited, and their chief pastor, Leger, was obliged to flee, and in his exile at Leiden wrote his Histoire generale des eglises vaudoises (1684).

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  • During her husband's absence she was induced by Paris, son of Priam, with the connivance of Aphrodite, to flee with him to Troy.

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  • But the dominant priestly caste of the Magians, on whose support the king was dependent, were naturally hostile to him, and after some successes Mani was made a prisoner, and had then to flee.

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  • But Izz ed-din, intriguing with the Mameluke sultans of Egypt to expel his brother and gain his independence, was defeated by a Mongol army and obliged to flee to the imperial court.

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  • After a brief residence he was obliged to flee from Paris to avoid persecution, but was captured and threatened with death.

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  • All Israel and Judah flocked to his side, and David, attended only by the Cherethites and Pelethites and some recent recruits from Gath, found it expedient to flee.

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  • In consequence of this he was summoned before the Privy Council in February 1584, and had to flee into England in order to escape an absurd charge of treason which threatened imprisonment and not improbably his life.

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  • According to some accounts, Philolaus, obliged to flee, took refuge first in Lucania and then at Thebes, where he had as pupils Simmias and Cebes, who subsequently, being still young men (vcavifKoL), were present at the death of Socrates.

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  • His attachment to the Stuarts also caused him to remain a non-juror, and on the discovery of the plot of Atterbury, whose secretary he was, he was forced to flee to France.

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  • He might have run past them by the use of sail and oar to escape, but with the true spirit of a Norse warrior he refused to flee, and turned to give battle with the eleven ships immediately about him.

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  • Athamas, with the guilt of his son's murder upon him, was obliged to flee from Boeotia.

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  • But his warnings had no effect; he himself was obliged to flee to Catana, where he died and was buried before the gate called after him the Stesichorean.

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  • Ruzzik, prefect of ljshmunain, at whose arrival in Cairo the troops deserted Abbgs, who was compelled to flee into Syria, taking his son and Usmah with him.

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  • The mannerisms and grotesque exaggerations of his writings annoyed persons of refinement, and suggest Matthew Arnold's advice to flee " Carlylese " as you would flee the devil.

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  • Sometimes all the members of the family, or of a village, to which a culprit belonged would flee from their homes and take refuge in another village, or seek the protection of a powerful chief.

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  • A resident was left at the capital, Massenia, but on Gentil's withdrawal Rabah descended from Bornu and forced sultan and resident to flee.

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  • Pope Gregory V., whose favour Robert vainly sought to win by allowing Arnulf, the imprisoned archbishop, to return to his see of Reims and forcing Gerbert to flee to the court of the emperor Otto III., excommunicated the king, and a council at Rome imposed a seven years' penance upon him.

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  • According to the commonest account, on the 23rd of August of that year Pliny the elder, who had command of the Roman fleet at Misenum, set out to render assistance to a young lady of noble family named Rectina and others dwelling on that coast, but, as there was no escape by sea, the little harbour having been on a sudden filled up so as to be inaccessible, he was obliged to abandon to their fate those people of Herculaneum who had managed to flee from their houses, overwhelmed in a moment by the material poured forth by Vesuvius.

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  • To escape the vengeance of the friars, Rizal was obliged to flee to Europe.

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  • When the revolution came the members of the four orders had to flee for their lives, although the people who killed or imprisoned those they could catch were generally good Catholics.

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  • When the Austrians returned Cattaneo had to flee, and took refuge at Lugano, where he gave lessons, wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848, the Archivio triennale delle cose d'Italia (3 vols., 1850-1855), and then early in 1860 he started the Politecnico once more.

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  • Ibn Zobair's representative in Kuf a was compelled to flee, and all those who had participated in the battle of Kerbela were put to death.

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  • The proscription of Cinna obliged him to flee to Spain; but after Cinna's death he passed into Africa, and thence to Italy, where he ingratiated himself with Sulla.

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  • On the death of the countess Matilda, who had bequeathed all her territories to the Church (1115), the emperor at once laid claim to them as imperial fiefs and forced the pope to flee from Rome.

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  • The lot falls on Jonah, who has been roughly awakened by the captain, and when questioned frankly owns that he is a Hebrew and a worshipper of the divine creator Yahweh, from whom he has sought to flee (as if He were only the god of Canaan).

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  • In January 1781 Benedict Arnold captured Richmond and compelled governor and legislature to flee beyond the Blue Ridge mountains, where one session of the Assembly was held.

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  • In 1526 Angus obtained control of the king, and kept him in close confinement until 1528, when James, escaping from Edinburgh to Stirling, put vigorous measures in execution against the earl, and compelled him to flee to England.

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  • The races of the hilly tracts are semi-civilized tribes, who often flee at the mere sight of a white man, and have as yet been but little affected by the Hindu religion of their Rajput rulers.

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  • Accordingly his ethics also were thoroughly dualistic. By the " works of the Demiurge," which the Christian is to flee, he meant the whole " service of the perishable."

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  • Driven out by the Armagnacs, they recovered their influence after the return of the Burgundians to Paris in 1418, but had to flee again in 1436 when the constable, Arthur, earl of Richmond, took the city.

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  • When Ismail dismissed the cabinet and attempted to resume autocratic rule, Riaz had to flee the country.

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  • Burke replied in tones of firm self-repression; complained of the attack that had been made upon him; reviewed Fox's charges of inconsistency; enumerated the points on which they had disagreed, and remarked that such disagreements had never broken their friendship. But whatever the risk of enmity, and however bitter the loss of friendship, he would never cease from the warning to flee from the French constitution.

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  • They had colonized the west in the viking times; they had " fought at Hafursfirth," helping their stay-at-home kinsmen against the centralization of the great head-king, who, when he had crushed opposition in Norway, followed up his victory by compelling them to flee or bow to his rule.

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  • A union was effected between the two Frondes, that of the Petits Maitres and that of the parlements, and Mazarin was obliged to flee for safety to the electorate of Cologne (February 1651), whence he continued to govern the queen and the kingdom by means of secret letters.

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  • Having accidentally killed his father-in-law at the Calydonian boar-hunt, Peleus was again obliged to flee, this time to Iolcus, where he was purified by Acastus.

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  • We flee into the security of an imagined being, or we flee from being altogether into our own imagination.

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  • As they flee Hinkle, Frosty and Karen discover a greenhouse.

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  • His son Isildur took the broken shards, and cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand, temporarily defeating him and causing him to flee from his body.

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  • His grip tightened around her, and she resisted the urge to push him away and flee.

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  • One she wanted to spend eternity in bed with; the other she felt the need to flee.

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  • Expecting the sheltered woman would flee at the first kiss, he brushed her lips with his.

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  • Straightening, he blocked her attempt to flee from the porch and backed her into the corner.

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  • At last he was totally defeated at Citium, and compelled to flee to Salamis.

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  • Declaring that the cardinals had been intimidated, Innocent refused to recognize their choice; by June, however, he was obliged to flee to France.

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  • In 1530 Constance (whose bishop had been forced to flee in 1527 to Meersburg, on the other side of the lake, and from that time the episcopal residence) joined, with Strassburg, Memmingen and Lindau, the Schmalkalden League.

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  • Twice the court had to flee from Paris; once when there was a rumour of intended flight the populace was admitted to see the king in his bed.

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  • His persecutions and oppressions of the orthodox ultimately raised a rebellion which compelled him to flee for his life; but his authority was restored, although with difficulty, by a military demonstration.

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  • Landing at Nice on the 24th of June 1848, he placed his sword at the disposal of Charles Albert, and, after various difficulties with the Piedmontese war office, formed a volunteer army 3000 strong, but shortly after taking the field was obliged, by the defeat of Custozza, to flee to Switzerland.

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  • Obliged, however, to flee to Pella in Macedonia, he established himself as an astrologer, and as such was consulted by the childless Olympias.

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  • On the death of Alphonso in 1481, his counsellors and favourites were harshly treated by his successor John, and Abrabanel was compelled to flee to Spain, where he held for eight years (1484-1492) the post of a minister of state under Ferdinand and Isabella.

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  • The righteous could only flee or hide, and so wait dreaming of the mercy of God past and to come.

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  • Upon the restoration of the Bourbon government (May 15, 1849) he was excluded from the amnesty and compelled to flee to Piedmont.

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  • A little before this Gregory V., at the end of 996, had been compelled to flee from' the city; and the wily and ambitious Greek had now no scruple in accepting the papal tiara from the hands of Crescentius.

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  • Having offended the influential iElfgifu, he was outlawed and compelled to flee to Flanders.

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  • In 1539 Alesius was compelled to flee for the second time to Germany, in consequence of the enactment of the statute of the Six Articles.

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  • Ultimately he had to flee from England, and took refuge in Bohemia, where he was received by the university of Prague on the 13th of February 1417, and soon became a leader of the reformers.

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  • The patriarch's increasing wealth caused him to incur the jealousy of his father-in-law, Laban, and he was forced to flee in secret with his family.

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  • The catastrophic hurricane caused many people to flee inland.

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  • The chief agitators were either sentenced to heavy terms of imprisonment or were compelled to flee the country.

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  • The tenure of the presidential office was for two years, and at every alternate election Guzman Blanco was declared to be duly and legally chosen to fill the post of chief magistrate of the republic. In 1889 there was an open revolt against the dictatorial system so long in vogue; and President Rojas Paul, Blanco's locum tenens, was forced to flee the country and take refuge in the Dutch colony of Curacoa.

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  • Mainet (12th century) and the kindred poems in German and Italian are perhaps based on the adventures of Charles Martel, who after his father's death had to flee to the Ardennes.

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  • She was debating if she had the money to take the kids and just leave, flee Jonny and Xander.

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  • John Wedder - burn was in Dundee as late as 1546, when he was obliged to flee to England.

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  • Being again compelled to flee, he retired to Italy, and founded the monastery of Bobbio in the Apennines, where he remained till his death, which took place on the 21st of November 615.

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  • Those who wished to enter the society must have "a desire to flee from the wrath to come, to be saved from their sins."

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  • Exiled from Naples in consequence of the movement of 1848, he took refuge in Tuscany, whence he was compelled to flee to Turin on account of a pungent article against the Bourbons.

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  • He ran great danger at the estates of Compiegne in May 1358, where his dismissal was demanded, and he had to flee to St Denis, where Charles the Bad and Etienne Marcel came to find him.

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  • He engaged in the Pelagian controversy with more than even his usual bitterness (Dialogi contra pelagianos); and it is said that the violence of his invective so provoked his opponents that an armed mob attacked the monastery, and that Jerome was forced to flee and to remain in concealment for nearly two years.

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  • A squadron of trading ships and a few war vessels were blocked in Italian ports till some of them were taken and others forced to flee in March 1653 off Leghorn.

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  • His following gradually melted away, and he was about to flee to Portugal when Galicia revolted.

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  • His father, Don Francisco de Valenzuela, a gentleman of Ronda, had been compelled to flee from Spain in consequence of a brawl, and had enlisted as a soldier in Naples, where he married Dona Leonora de Encisa.

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  • Forced to flee by the treachery of the very men whom he had succoured, he lived for a time in constant fear of being captured by Saul, and at length took refuge with Achish king of Gath and established himself in Ziklag.

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  • The hostility he encountered in the propagation of these new religious ideas after his return to Khorasan in 1052 and Sunnite fanaticism compelled him at last to flee, and after many wanderings he found a refuge in Yumgan (about 1060) in the mountains of Badakshan, where he spent as a hermit the last decades of his life, and gathered round him a considerable number of devoted adherents, who have handed down his doctrines to succeeding generations.

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  • The invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him.

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  • After ten years of fighting, Humayun was driven out of India and compelled to flee to Persia through the desert of Sind, where his famous son, Akbar the Great, was born in the petty fort of Umarkot (1542).

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  • She felt his arms around her and leaned into him, surprised at how natural it felt to be held against a complete stranger who made her want to flee for the hills and strip naked at the same time.

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