Escaping Sentence Examples

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  • If he was trying to prevent her from escaping, he was doing a poor job of it.

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  • He succeeded in escaping from the Tower, but was again captured, was condemned to death by the new "high court of justice" on the 8th of March 1649, and was beheaded together with the duke of Hamilton and Lord Holland the next day.

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  • Where surface water is banked up against the land, as by the equatorial and Gulf Stream drift currents, it appears to penetrate to very considerable depths; the escaping stream currents are at first of great vertical thickness and part of the water at their sources has a downward movement.

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  • She had enough strength to control the demon; maybe she could prevent it from escaping to a new host.

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  • A revival of Irredentism in connection with the execution of an Austrian deserter named Oberdank, who after escaping into Italy endeavoured to return to Austria with explosive bombs in his possession, and the cordial references to France made by Depretis at Stradella (8th October 1882), prevented the French government from suspecting the existence of the alliance, or from ceasing to strive after a Franco-Italian understanding.

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  • Slaves were continually escaping from their masters, and were harboured, on their way to Canada, by the circle in which Mrs Stowe lived.

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  • King Ladislaus would have made the book-loving youth a monk, and even designated him for the see of Eger; but Coloman had no inclination for an ecclesiastical career, and, with the assistance of his friends, succeeded in escaping to Poland.

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  • The great statesman barely succeeded in escaping to Austria, a land in which the hopes of German patriots now centred.

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  • This mixture dissolves in petroleum, escaping when the oil is stored, and conversely it invariably carries a certain amount of water and oil, which is deposited on compression.

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  • He was said to be the inventor of a kind of flying-machine, a wooden pigeon balanced by a weight suspended from a pulley, and set in motion by compressed air escaping from a valve.'

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  • That island, which had been ceded by France in 1810, three years after the abolition, had special facilities for escaping observation in consequence of the proximity of the African coast; but it was soon obliged to conform.

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  • With the connivance of the duke of Austria he fled, first to Schaffhausen, then to Laufenburg, Freiburg, and finally to Breisach, in the hope of escaping in Burgundian territory the pressure exerted upon him by the emperor and the fathers of the council.

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  • The inevitable result was that only an occasional blockaderunner could succeed in escaping detection and attack.

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  • When the troops landed in England, half clothed and half shod, their leader's conduct of the campaign was at first blamed, but his reputation as a general rests solidly upon these facts, that when Napoleon in person, having nearly 300,000 men in Spain, had stretched forth his hand to seize Portugal and Andalusia, Moore with 30,000, forced him to withdraw it, and follow him to Corunna, escaping at the same time from his grasp. Certainly a notable achievement.

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  • The anthers are so situated that the pollen on escaping comes into contact with the stigma; in such flowers self-fertilization is compulsory and very effectual, as seeds in profusion are produced.

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  • He retired into private life, heavily burdened with debts incurred during his tenure of office and narrowly escaping arrest even before he quitted Whitehall.

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  • He started on the night of the 24th, and escaping the Boer outposts rode through the dense bush and across the bridgeless rivers of Kaffraria at peril of his life from hostile natives and wild beasts, and in nine days reached his destination - a distance of 360 m.

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  • From that day the role of the Natal Field Force was changed from that of a mobile field army into that of a garrison, and two days later it was completely isolated, but not before General French had succeeded in escaping south by train, and the naval authorities had been induced by Sir George White's urgent appeals to send into the town a naval brigade with a few guns of sufficient range and calibre to cope with the heavy position artillery which Joubert was now able to bring into action against the town.

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  • In the northern Transvaal a force under Sir Bindon Blood cleared the country, but could not prevent Viljoen from escaping eastward to join Botha.

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  • The king of Navarre had succeeded in escaping from prison and had entered Paris, where his party was in the ascendant; and Robert le Coq became the most powerful person in his council.

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  • About the same time he published a pamphlet advocating the reform of the Prayer Book, while a tract issued on the 15th of July, Sundry reasons against the new intended Bill for governing and reforming Corporations, was declared illegal, false, scandalous and seditious; Prynne being censured, and only escaping punishment by submission.

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  • Hell ran off deals, but Wynn's life was already in enough trouble without incurring another debt on behalf of a woman who had no hope of ever escaping Hell.

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  • Darian anticipated her first kick and snatched it, sweeping her off her feet again and falling with her this time to keep her from escaping.

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  • Many of the conspirators were condemned to death, but all succeeded in escaping.

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  • Rioting took place at Rome at the prompting of the popular leaders, Sulla narrowly escaping to his legions in Campania, whence he marched on Rome, being the first Roman who entered the city at the head of a Roman army.

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  • The crude product is very impure and possesses an offensive smell; it may be purified by forcing a fine spray of lime water through the liquid until the escaping water is quite clear, the washed bisulphide being then mixed with a little colourless oil and distilled at a low temperature.

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  • The full reach of this discovery seems as yet scarcely to have impressed itself upon the emperor with complete conviction, for in the succeeding campaign in Poland we find that he twice departed from this form - at Pultusk and Heilsbergand each time his enemy succeeded in escaping him.

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  • Three days later more than 2000 of the Indians were surrounded and captured, Little Crow with a few of his companions alone escaping beyond the Missouri.

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  • In the meantime the ships bought by President Peixoto arrived off Rio de Janeiro and prevented da Gama from escaping.

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  • Narrowly escaping assassination, at a banquet a few days later, at the hands of his rival, King Sweyn III., he succeeded only with the utmost difficulty in escaping to Jutland, but on the 23rd of October utterly routed Sweyn at the great battle of Grathe Heath, near Viborg, Sweyn perishing in his flight from the field.

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  • De Wet, after escaping from Brandwater Basin, was hunted north-westward, and crossed into the Transvaal, where, joining the local guerrilla bands, he surrounded an infantry brigade at Fredrikstad.

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  • Escaping from the field of battle Conradin reached Rome, but acting on advice to leave the city he reached Astura, where he was seized and handed over to Charles of Anjou.

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  • This latter Act he approved only as a means of escaping the free coinage of silver, and he supported its repeal in 1893.

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  • A molecule escaping from its original position in a body will usually fall into a new position in which it will be held in equilibrium by the forces from a new set of neighbouring molecules.

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  • He succeeded eventually in escaping, and arrived in Mengo on the 30th of March (1892).

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  • In the following campaign of 362 Mantineia, after narrowly escaping capture by the Theban general Epaminondas, became the scene of a decisive conflict in which the latter achieved Achaeans and jealousy of Megalopolis, was punished in 222 by a thorough devastation of the city, which was now reconstituted as a dependency of Argos and renamed Antigoneia.

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  • It was in 1455 during this war that the knight Kunz von Kaufungen carried into execution his daring plan of stealing the two sons of the elector Frederick, Ernest and Albert, but he was only momentarily successful, the princes soon escaping from his hands.

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  • Proscribed with the Girondists on the 2nd of June 1793, he succeeded in escaping, and took refuge in Normandy, where he contributed to organize a federalist insurrection against the Convention, which was speedily suppressed.

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  • Escaping from Avignon, he again won obedience in France, and his one thought was how to triumph over his Italian rival, if necessary, by force.

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  • In the general anarchy Charles succeeded in escaping, defeated the Neustrians at Ambleve, south of Liege, in 716, and at Vincy, near Cambrai, in 717, and forced them to come to terms. In Austrasia he wrested the power from Plectrude, and took the title of mayor of the palace, thus prejudicing the interests of his nephews.

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  • The victor quickly turned upon Banks, destroyed his garrison of Front Royal and nearly surrounded his main body; barely escaping, Banks was again defeated at Winchester and driven back to the Maryland border (May 23-25).

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  • The Confederates fell back to the southward, escaping Grant once more, and thus ended the Confederate advance in the West.

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  • Thereupon the Confederates retired, narrowly escaping Hunter, and the brief campaign came to an end with an engagement at Kernstown.

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  • He was, however, almost immediately re-elected member for Westminster, but he had to serve his term (one year) of imprisonment, and, after escaping and being recaptured, he regained his liberty in 1815 on payment of the fine of r000 to which he had been sentenced.

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  • He was knighted on the 11th of October 1551, on the eve of Somerset's second fall, and was congratulated on his success in escaping his benefactor's fate.

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  • Two Skraeling children were captured here and the expedition divided, Thorfinn making Greenland and Ericsfiord in safety with his own vessel, while the other was lost in the Irish Sea, only half the crew escaping to Ireland in the ship's boat.

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  • This was Goran Persson, born about 1530, who had been educated abroad in Lutheran principles, and after narrowly escaping hanging at the hands of Gustavus Vasa for some vile action entered the service of his son.

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  • The Trypanosomes ultimately overrun practically all parts of the body, sometimes not even the ova escaping.

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  • After six weeks' imprisonment in the Chateau d'If he returned to Paris, escaping, after the proscription of the regicides, to Brussels, where he died on the 15th of January 1827.

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  • When the ice sheets fronted on land sloping southward to the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the drift-laden streams flowed freely away from the ice border; and as the streams, escaping from their subglacial channels, spread in broader channels, they ordinarily could not carry forward all their load; hence they acted not as destructive but as constructive agents, and aggraded their courses.

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  • The latter is in many states neither prompt nor certain, offenders frequently escaping through the excessive regard for technicalities even more than through the indulgence of juries and the occasional weakness of judges.

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  • Dumont succeeded in escaping across the United States boundary; Riel was captured, imprisoned, and in due course tried for treason.

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  • He was allowed to come close to the Turkish flagship, and succeeded in attaching his fireships to her, setting them on fire, and escaping with his party.

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  • The rest of her life is merely outlined, though her adventures in escaping from Berengar are treated in more detail.

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  • Escaping through the intervention of a friend, he went to Montargis.

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  • But the real founder of the state of Gwalior was Mahadji Sindhia, a natural son of Ranoji, who, after narrowly escaping with his life from the terrible slaughter of Panipat in 1761 (when Jankoji was killed), obtained with some difficulty from the peshwa a re-grant of his father's possessions in Central India (1769).

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  • Though separated, both succeeded in escaping simultaneously on the 3rd of June 1611; but, less fortunate than her husband, who got safe to the Continent, she was captured in the straits of Dover and shut up in the Tower of London.

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  • A considerable extension of the three years' term has been secured in certain cases by a legal device for escaping the provisions of the eleventh clause of Wesley's Deed Poll, but some more satisfactory method of dealing with the subject is under consideration.

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  • This method can only be carried out in still water, and where strong and tight framing can be built which will prevent the concrete from escaping.

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  • The operation is essentially a dissociation of alumina into aluminium, which collects at the cathode, and into oxygen, which combines with the anodes to form carbon monoxide, the latter escaping and being burnt to carbon dioxide outside.

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  • Arrived here, the material is introduced into the furnace by an ingenious piece of mechanism which completely prevents the furnace gas from escaping into the air.

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  • The unbroken arrows show the direction of the incoming gas and air, the broken ones the direction of the escaping products of their combustion.

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  • In these, bricks in great numbers are piled loosely, in such a way that, while they leave ample passage for the gas and air, yet they offer to them a very great extent of surface, and therefore readily transfer to them the heat which they have as readily sucked out of the escaping products of combustion in the last preceding phase.

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  • E, Magnesite bricks on which the M, The escaping products of comhot billets slide forward.

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  • Torrane (governor 1805-1807) repaired to Anamabo, where he was received with great pomp. Torrane determined to surrender the fugitive Assin chiefs, but one succeeded in escaping; the other, on being given up, was put to death by the Ashanti.

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  • Escaping to Egypt, she became the wife of her full brother Ptolemy II., the first instance of the practice (afterwards common) of the Greek kings of Egypt marrying their .sisters.

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  • Escaping with the queen from the Tuileries by a back entrance, he made his way with her in disguise to Honfleur, where the royal couple found refuge in a gardener's cottage.

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  • Meanwhile slaves of loyal masters were constantly escaping to military camps.

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  • Brandishing a huge knife, with which he wounded Colonel Rathbone who attempted to hold him, the assassin rushed through the stage-box to the front and leaped down upon the stage, escaping behind the scenes and from the rear of the building, but was pursued, and twelve days afterwards shot in a barn where he had concealed himself.

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  • His schemes were frustrated by two of the amirs whom he had imprisoned and who, escaping from their confinement, attacked him in his bath and killed him.

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  • For two years his brother and he lived as fugitives in the mountains of the Cevennes, but they at last reached Geneva, where their mother afterwards joined them on escaping from the imprisonment in which she was held from the time of their flight.

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  • The antheridia, which arise in the conceptacular cavity as special cells of branched filaments, are similarly discharged whole, the antherozoids only escaping when the antheridia are clear of the conceptacle.

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  • This treaty did not prevent war soon again breaking out between Sigebert and Chilperic. So long as her husband lived, Brunhilda played asecondary part, but having been made captive by Chilperic after her husband's assassination (575), she succeeded in escaping from her prison at Rouen, after a series of extraordinary adventures, by means of a marriage with Merovech, the son of her conqueror.

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  • Narrowly escaping the perils of the Revolution, it was exhibited in Paris, by Napoleon's desire, in 1803-1804, and has since been in civil custody at Bayeux, where it is now exhibited under glass.

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  • An insurrection, headed by General Eloy Alfaro, followed; and after desultory skirmishing extending over a period of nearly a year the government forces were finally routed, President Cordero abandoning his office and escaping from the country.

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  • Saisset was on the point of escaping to Rome when the vidame of Amiens surprised him by night in his episcopal palace.

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  • In January 1590 his house at Northampton was searched and his papers seized, but he succeeded in escaping to Scotland.

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  • Escaping, he reached London in 1798, and served on General Korsakov's staff in the campaign of 1799.

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  • The stimulus of contradiction is no doubt a strong one; but the easiest way of escaping it is to shut our eyes to one side of the antithesis.

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  • In March 1920 Carranza's attempts to control Sonora against Obregon's candidacy, and the arrest of the latter charged with rebellion, led him, on escaping from Mexico City, to raise a revolt which began in Sonora under the Plan of Agua Prieta on April 9.

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  • The hydrochloric acid gas, which is always diluted with air, sometimes to a very great extent, must be brought into the most intimate contact possible with water, which greedily absorbs it, forming ordinary hydrochloric acid, and this process must be carried so far that scarcely any hydrochloric acid remains in the escaping gases.

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  • These vessels, as well as all others which are used in the process, are not open to the air, but communicate with it through washers in which fresh salt solution is employed for retaining any escaping vapours of ammonia.

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  • He returned to Genoa for good in 1555, and being very old and infirm he gave over the command of the galleys to his great-nephew Giovanni Andrea Doria, who conducted an expedition against Tripoli, but proved even more unsuccessful than his uncle had been at Algiers, barely escaping with his life.

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  • Mohallab had succeeded in escaping to Basra, the home of his family, where his own tribe the Azd was predominant.

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  • Sometimes severely handled by the British, sometimes escaping only by the narrowest margin of safety from the columns which attempted to surround him, and falling upon and annihilating isolated British posts, De Wet continued to the end of the war his successful career, striking heavily where he could do so and skilfully evading every attempt to bring him to bay.

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  • The people of the country are by no means heavily taxed, a large number of the natives of the interior escaping all payment of dues to the company, the revenue being for the most part contributed by the more civilized members of the community residing in the neighbourhood of the company's stations.

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  • Escaping from Whitehall by a back staircase they put themselves under the care of the bishop of London, spent one night in his house, and subsequently arrived on the 1st of December at Nottingham, where the princess first made herself known and appointed a council.

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  • The 12th and r3th centuries, which witnessed the great struggle between the secular and spiritual powers in the state, witnessed also the rise of a literature inspired by the lay spirit, and of an art which was already escaping from the thraldom of the stereotyped ecclesiastical forms. Gothic sculpture was not incidentally decorative, it was an essential element in the harmony of the architectural design.

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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 pope's prime minister, Count Rossi, was murdered, and Pius himself, escaping to Gaeta, threw himself under Neapolitan protection.

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  • The great evaporation going on from the surface probably causes a slow vertical circulation in the depth, the salter colder waters sinking, and ultimately escaping to the Indian Ocean.

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  • Then follows the usual allusion to Clematius; the date is expressly fixed at 238, and the whole revelation is seemingly ascribed to St Cordula, one of the 11,000 who, after escaping death on the first day by hiding in one of the vessels, on the morrow gave herself up to death of her own accord.

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  • In July 1920 he succeeded in escaping to Russia, where he was employed by the Soviet Government.

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  • The low percentage of sulphur in the roasted ore is little more than enough to produce a matte of 40 to 45%, and therefore the escaping gases are better fitted than those of most copper cupola furnaces for burning in a stove.

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  • Since John Hollway's and other early experiments of Lawrence Austin and Robert Sticht, no serious attempts have been made to utilize the heat escaping from a converting vessel in smelting ore and matte either in the same apparatus or in a separate furnace.

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  • Urban succeeded in escaping to Genoa, where he put several of his cardinals to death for suspected disloyalty.

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  • After escaping from the genital aperture they find their way into the infra-branchial part of the mantle cavity of the parent, probably by passing through the suprabranchial chamber to the posterior extremity of the gills, and then being conducted by the inhalent current caused by the cilia of the gills into the infra-branchial chamber.

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  • But when the revolt of the younger Cyrus against his brother (401 B.C.) had demonstrated the surprising ease and rapidity with which a courageous army could penetrate into the heart of the empirewhen the whole force of that empire had proved powerless, not only to prevent some 12,000 Greek troops, completely surrounded, cut off from their communications, and deprived through treachery of their leaders, from escaping to the coast, but even to make a serious attack on themthen, indeed, the imperial impotence became manifest.

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  • He succeeded in escaping and was ultimately lucky enough to enter the service of Theophilitzes, a relative of the Caesar Bardas (uncle of Michael III.), as groom.

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  • In 1137 he was beaten near Barin, and escaping into the fort was surrounded and forced to capitulate.

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  • During the critical period in which their empire was being established (c. 1505-1550) the Portuguese were fortunate in escaping conflict with any Oriental power of the first rank except Egypt and Turkey; for the Bahmani sultanate of the Deccan had been already disintegrated before 1498, and the Mughals and Mahrattas were still far off.

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  • Escaping from the massacre of St Bartholomew, he went to England and returned with a fleet for the relief of La Rochelle (1573), but soon had to withdraw to Cornwall.

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  • Escaping from prison he tried to raise a revolt, but the attempt failed and to avoid capture he put an end to his life.

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  • Both Martinic and Slavata were but little injured, and succeeded in escaping from Prague.

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  • Calcutta has been comparatively fortunate in escaping the plague.

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  • Of the priests involved, Garnet was tried and executed, while Greenway and Gerard succeeded in escaping.

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  • The retreat soon became a disorderly flight, Mithradates himself escaping with difficulty into Lesser Armenia..

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  • A common problem has been how to reduce a state to submission or subordination while ostensibly preserving its independence or existence; to obtain power while escaping responsibility and the expenditure attending the establishment of a regular administration.

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  • The maximum pressure is not uniform from the ground level to the roof but is greatest at the centre; it is diminished near the ground level by the frictional resistance of the ground, and at the eaves by the eddies formed by the air escaping over the roof.

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  • Included are various charges on foreign bonds to bearer, to compensate for the advantage they have in escaping the transfer duty on deeds, through their passing on sale or mortgage from hand to hand.

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  • During the decade 1891-1901 Bengal was fortunate in escaping to a great extent the two calamities of famine and plague which afflicted central and western India.

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  • The Porte, instigated by Napoleon's ambassador Sebastiani, resolved on Ypsilanti's deposition, but the hospodar succeeded in escaping to St Petersburg.

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  • The bishop, who was at first unwilling to save himself, until he knew that his faithful followers were in safety, succeeded in escaping, leaving the town and finding a hiding-place in the country.

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  • He succeeded in escaping, first to Caen, where he organized the civil war, then to Saint-Emilion near Bordeaux, where he wrote his Memoires, which were published in 1822 by his son, and re-edited in 1866.

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  • Early in March 1792 he was elected lieutenant-colonel of one of the battalions of the Eure-et-Loire; he took part in the defence of Verdun in 1792, and it fell to his lot to bear the proposals of capitulation to the Prussian camp. The spiritless conduct of the defenders excited the wrath of the revolutionary authorities, and Marceau was fortunate in escaping arrest and finding re-employment as a captain in the regular service.

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  • Oxford and Suffolk succeeded in escaping to France, but the king and the rest of his adherents fell into the hands of the lords appellant They threatened for a moment to depose him, but finally placed him under the control of a council and ministers Execution chosen by themselves, and to put him in a proper of the state of terror, executed Lord Beauchamp, the judge, kings Sir Robert Tressilian.

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  • Prior to 1691, however, Dr John Clayton, dean of Kildare, filled bladders with inflammable gas obtained by the distillation of coal, and showed that on pricking the bladders and applying a light to the escaping gas it burnt with a luminous flame, and in 1726 Stephen Hales published the fact that by the distillation of 158 grains of Newcastle coal, 180 cub.

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  • The edges of the lid dip into an external water seal or lute G, whereby the gas is prevented from escaping.

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  • The anger of the Danes was turned against the envoys of the Swedish sovereign; Coyet, it is true, succeeded in escaping, but the second minister, Steno Bjelke, and the whole suite were arrested and thrown into prison.

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  • At fourteen Walewski refused to enter the Russian army, escaping to London and thence to Paris, where the French government refused his extradition to the Russian authorities.

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  • He received permission to remove to the Amur region, whence he succeeded in escaping, making his way through Japan and the United States to England in 1861.

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  • During the short duration of the revolutionary government he was an active member of the most extreme party, but on the arrival of the Prussian troops he succeeded in escaping to France.

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  • Boffille, with the object of escaping from his enemies, applied for the command of the armies of the republic of Venice.

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  • Edmund Spenser lost his all, escaping only to die of misery in a London garret.

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  • A remnant of Zobeir's troops under a chief named Rabah succeeded in escaping westward, (see Rabah).

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  • On reaching Varna, the Hungarians found that the Venetian galleys had failed to prevent the transit of the sultan, who now confronted them with fourfold odds, and on the 10th of November 1444 they were utterly routed, Wladislaus falling on the field and Hunyadi narrowly escaping.

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  • He succeeded, however, in escaping, and began again the struggle against the Revolution.

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  • Having overcome Monmouth's reluctance to take part in this movement, he accompanied the duke to the west of England and drew up the manifesto against James II., escaping to Holland after the battle of Sedgemoor.

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  • One had a bodice cut so low and her breasts shoved so high that they were in imminent danger of escaping.

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  • Innovative locals, resting in the doldrums of off-season winter, noticed that when the large, ancient pipe leaked, escaping water coated the high walls of the gorge in spectacular ice.

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  • Then again, she didn't know what Gabe's destination had been.  Katie looked behind her, wondering what she was missing.  Her eyes went to the slithering tree branches overhead.  She couldn't survive on her own in the underworld.  That much had been made clear to her by Gabe.  And escaping a demon on her own didn't seem like a smart option.

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  • While the pair was a definite annoyance to the Parkside police, the two were seldom a serious problem, principally because they were too stupid to get away with much, and their size—six­-feet-five and at least 500 pounds between them—made escaping detection difficult.

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  • No escape for bail bandits 21 February 2005 Bail bandits in Warwickshire have discovered there's no escaping the Criminal Justice System.

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  • The net was also fitted with an illegal top-side chafer which stops immature fish escaping.

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  • But Emma dreams of escaping the poverty of the east end.

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  • It is not just that we would need a new sort of relationship between thought and neural process for the purpose of escaping epiphenomenalism.

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  • Then we are escaping hordes of midges up An Teallach, on a day of playful breezes and luminous skies.

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  • On graduation in 1984 he went to work as a prison officer, only escaping from a life contract by feigning insanity.

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  • Sensitively intelligent, there was no escaping the significance of the only possible deduction.

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  • This oil was escaping through a defective oil interceptor to the river nearby.

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  • Miraculously escaping from prison Joseph traveled to Britain where he became the ancestor of an unbroken line of valiant knights.

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  • Landfills are lined with clay and flexible synthetic membranes intended to prevent leachate escaping and contaminating the groundwater.

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  • Good for escaping the madness of the rush hour.

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  • As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.

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  • Such was his reputation for escaping from prison that he acquired the popular nickname, ' the Welsh Houdini ' .

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  • They are escaping persecution, death or devastation in their home country.

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  • They came in the 16th century escaping religious persecution.

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  • Thus Britain recognizes as refugees people fleeing non-state persecution - such as women escaping forced marriages - while Germany does not.

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  • I felt like I was escaping a prison and leaving Mrs A behind as a captive!

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  • Fire crews attended to find that an external gas pipe had been deliberately tampered with and escaping gas set alight.

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  • They all dreamed of escaping the tyranny of editors, deadlines, the daily grind to Blackfriars Station.

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  • From the 12th to 22nd of July he was fighting continually, but finally, on the 31st of July, his army was annihilated by overwhelming numbers near Segesvár (Schassburg), Bem only escaping by feigning death.

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  • Manson and Bancroft suggested that the second host of the parasite is the mosquito or gnat, and for a long time it was thought that they were conveyed to man by the mosquito dying after laying her eggs in water, the larval nematodes escaping from her body and being swallowed by man.

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  • An agreement of the sort was necessary to persuade the slave-holding states to union, and in the Federal Constitution, Article IV., Section II., it is provided that "no person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due."

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  • The alluvial portion of the state, especially below the mouth of the Red river, is an intricate network of these bayous, which, before their closure by a levee system, served partially, in time of flood, to carry off the escaping surplus of river waters.

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  • They, moreover, tried the effect of shock upon the liquid, and found that the repeated dropping of the cylinder from a height of nearly 20 feet upon a large steel anvil gave no explosion, but that when the cylinder was crushed under a heavy blow the impact was followed, after a short interval of time, by an explosion which was manifestly due to the fracture of the cylinder and the ignition of the escaping gas, mixed with air, from sparks caused by the breaking of the metal.

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  • After escaping from the chains of his passion for the beautiful but reckless Mrs Woffington, Garrick had in 1749 married Mademoiselle Violette (Eva Maria Veigel), a German lady who had attracted admiration at Florence or at Vienna as a dancer, and had come to England early in 1746, where her modest grace and the rumours which surrounded her created a furore, and where she found enthusiastic patrons in the earl and countess of Burlington.

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  • In the meanwhile relief may be afforded by fomentations, and by morphia or chloroform, but if no prospect of the stone escaping into the intestine appears likely, the surgeon will be called upon to remove it by an incision through the gall-bladder, or the bile-duct, or through the intestine at the spot where it is trying to make its escape.

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  • But extreme narrowness would not only cause the escaping gases to move so swiftly that they would sweep much of the fine ore out of the furnace, but would also throw needless work on the blowing engines by throttling back the rising gases, and would lessen unduly the space available for the charge in the upper part of the furnace.

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  • Various forms of apparatus are employed for this treatment of the crude bicarbonate - sometimes semi-circular troughs with mechanical agitators on the principle of the Thelen pan (see above) - all acting on the principle that the escaping ammonia and carbon dioxide must be fully utilized over again.

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  • Abdallah, a brother of Mahommed and Ibrahim, the rivals of Mansur, succeeded in escaping, and fled to Egypt, whence by the help of the postmaster, himself a secret partisan of the Shiites, he passed into West Africa, where at a later period his son founded the Idrisite dynasty in Fez (see Morocco).

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  • It is needless to trace the ordinary routine of his service step by step. The officers of the U.S.navy have one great advantage which British officers are without; when on shore they are not necessarily parted from the service, but are employed in their several ranks in the differentdockyards,escaping thus not only the private grievance and pecuniary difficulties of a very narrow half-pay, but also, what from a public point of view is much more important, the loss of professional aptitude, and of that skill which comes from unceasing practice.

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  • You are spared the pain of many sights and sounds, which you are only too happy in escaping.

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  • And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand, *(2) and his soul is tranquil.

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  • After a bloody defeat, and whilst taking refuge in a dark cave escaping the English army, Robert sat and pondered his campaign.

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  • We have always resisted the lure of living in London, or the equally strong attraction of escaping swingeing British taxes by living abroad.

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  • But it may be as simple as tappet noise escaping from a leaky exhaust seal.

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  • Otto Scharmer has created a model for the process of escaping the trammels of the past, and sensing the future as it emerges.

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  • Lucy was so talented at escaping punishment, she could beguile her parents into believing anything.

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  • Luckily, some models of playpens come with mats and covers which makes escaping much more difficult.

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  • The removable mats and covers are perfect for families who would like to afford their pet ferret the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors without them escaping into the neighborhood.

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  • Two of them are in a storage room on which I have installed a cat door for them to go through (this is to keep the smell from escaping because you have to go through a bedroom to get there).

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  • There is no escaping a bad score and no denying the benefits of a good score.

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  • Greenhouse gases that occur naturally are good for the Earth, as they keep the heat from escaping into space.

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  • However, as greenhouse gases increase beyond a normal level, more heat is kept from escaping and this causes the earth's temperature to increase.

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  • These soothing, warm colors are perfect for the bedroom to help create a tranquil, relaxing atmosphere for unwinding, resting or just escaping the stresses of everyday life.

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  • The rod curves three inches inward at the corners, which helps prevent water from escaping.

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  • This stops cold drafts from coming inside your home during the winter and prevents the interior warm air from escaping through the window.

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  • The Labrador Retriever (Lab) originated in Newfoundland as a working dog to help fisherman pull nets out of the water and catch any escaping fish.

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  • Allowing your dog to catch escaping livestock and return them to the fold is one of the best exercises you can give her.

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  • This means that the walls inside your home prevent warm air from escaping during cold months and cool air from escaping during warm months.

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  • Part of that image includes rough-hewn logs on the exterior of the house and a stone chimney with puffy white clouds of smoke escaping from the warm hearth inside.

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  • It's a well known fact that heat rises, frequently escaping into the attic or out the roof of a house.

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  • While married men could turn to their wives when in doubt about what to wear, the single man was often without a clue, left wandering department store aisles and escaping as quickly as possible.

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  • A leaking mask is a problem for CPAP users because the escaping air reduces the pressure and prevents the CPAP from performing correctly.

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  • One game has you escaping from the belly of a giant snake, another blowing out a candle with the microphone, and a third has you fanning a fire to keep her warm.

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  • At one point, you'll reach the deck escaping the danger below only to be met with a dark crimson sky plagued with countless enemies surrounding you as you run to the nearest gunstation to defend your ship from oncoming fire.

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  • Since the game is mainly about finding the best routes possible or escaping from tight situations without major gunplay, you get to see what Faith sees.

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  • This ability was perfect for escaping precarious situations and quickly gaining momentum for loop-the-loops and other aerial sections.

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  • In escaping from the Shadoloo headquarters, Charlie could not escape a massive explosion, and it is presumed that he is killed in action.

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  • Some of the tasks are timed (like escaping from a giant sleeping Orc before he wakes up), so you have to be quick with the actions.

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  • Coercive behavior-Maladaptive behaviors engaged in as a means of avoiding or escaping aversive events.

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  • A balloon placed in the fetus's trachea prevents lung fluid from escaping through the mouth, enabling the lungs to expand, grow, and push the abdominal organs out of the chest and back into the abdomen.

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  • Hyaline membrane-A fibrous layer that settles in the alveoli in respiratory distress syndrome and prevents oxygen from escaping from inhaled air to the bloodstream.

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  • Butter, shortening, or similar salve should never be applied to the burn because these prevent heat from escaping and drive the burning process deeper into the skin.

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  • When escaping a burning building, a person should move close to the floor where there the air is cooler and clearer to breathe because hot air rises, carrying gases and particulate matter upward.

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  • Indigenous dances include things like the Tinikling, a dance re-enacting birds escaping traps set for them in the forest.

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  • In today's age, there is no escaping the influence of the computer.

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  • In a time where everyone is escaping everybody else through the use of iPods and Blackberries, board games cause us to break free from that shell and spend some quality time together which is beneficial for everybody.

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  • The important thing is escaping from your everyday obligations and concerns.

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  • The mission of WomensLaw.org is to provide easy to understand legal information and resources to women living with or escaping domestic violence or sexual assault.

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  • While escaping Deep Freeze, the now disenfranchised soldier shot two prison guards and a pilot.

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  • Many people have wondered if his gripping account of escaping the towers is true or just an urban legend of the type that populates the Internet via email.

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  • Adam Mayblum is indeed a real man and his first-person account of escaping almost certain death in World Trade Center Tower One is genuine.

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  • Open your curtains on south facing windows during the day to let in sunlight, but close them at night to prevent heat from escaping.

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  • She is presumed dead many times during the series, but she really meets her maker when she plunges from the roof after escaping the attic where Gloria Hodge locks her away.

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  • His bad luck continued months later when escaping from ace Detective Paul Williams, he jumped into a closet that turned out to be a garbage chute - leading to a trash compactor.

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  • Bill cannot get away from Lorena and Jason finds escaping the Fellowship harder than he could have imagined.

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  • She struck, caving in his head and escaping with Sookie.

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  • Any leak of the muffler or exhaust pipe results in the engine noise escaping out of the exhaust system before the "muffler" has had a chance to do its job at silencing the engine noise.

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  • Having all of the tracks that these two musical masterminds produced together in one place is very impressive indeed, and there is no escaping the fact that Marley is one of the most influential and important musicians, ever.

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  • Stunts included jumping off buildings, eating cockroaches or escaping from cars sinking in the water.

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  • The intricate network of cameras that make up the surveillance system run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and there is no escaping them.

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  • Sideswipe is the bot that slices Sideways (the Decepticon) in half to prevent him from escaping.

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  • Horrified at his own actions, Boromir bid them to run before he turned on the monsters approaching and died defending the escaping hobbits.

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  • If enjoy escaping to alien or futuristic worlds but don't have time to read a novel, science fiction short story collections offer the perfect solution.

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  • She smelled of her own musk, strands of hair escaping her braid to tickle his face.

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  • It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.

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  • There are little tears between the two worlds, and the souls are escaping.

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  • One drop then two fell to the ground, and he almost flinched at the thought of his only real food in a week escaping him.

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  • Escaping to South America in 1836, he was given letters of marque by the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which had revolted against Brazil.

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  • From the 12th to 22nd of July he was fighting continually, but finally, on the 31st of July, his army was annihilated by overwhelming numbers near Segesvár (Schassburg), Bem only escaping by feigning death.

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  • In March 1562, having made up his quarrel with Arran, he was accused of having proposed to the latter a project for seizing the queen, and in May he was imprisoned in Edinburgh castle, whence he succeeded in escaping on the 28th of August.

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  • After a few months of life it was blown up, its attendant, annoyed by the sound of the escaping steam, having fastened down the safety-valve.

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  • After narrowly escaping capture by Manfred's fleet he reached Rome safely, where he was crowned king of the Two Sicilies.

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  • But the commander of Masada realized at length that there was no hope of escaping captivity except by death, and urged his comrades to anticipate their fate.

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  • For 23 years he wandered far and wide, bringing comfort and succour to his co-religionists, and often very narrowly escaping capture.

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  • The affair ended by his escaping to Switzerland, where Sophie joined him; they then went to Holland, where he lived by hackwork for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for rapt et vol, and in May 1777 he was seized by the French police, and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes.

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  • In the event of the host escaping being killed and eaten it is believed that some of these larvae wander about or ultimately make their way to the exterior, possibly through the bronchi; nevertheless it seems to be certain that they can only reach sexual maturity in the nasal passages of some carnivorous animal, and the chance of attaining this environment is afforded when the viscera of the host are devoured by some flesh-eating mammal.

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  • In de Lambilly's process air and steam is led over white-hot coke, and carbon dioxide or monoxide removed from the escaping gases according as ammonium formate or carbonate is wanted.

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  • He succeeded in escaping and in reaching his family in Navarre.

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  • V is therefore a voiced labio-dental spirant, the breath escaping through a very narrow slit between the lower lip and the upper teeth.

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  • As the lame smith he reminds us of Hephaestus, and in his flight with wings of Daedalus escaping from Minos.

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  • He succeeded in escaping and lived for a time in Strassburg, Paris - where for several months he was Heine's secretary - and Bordeaux.

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  • Escaping by way of Strassburg he found an asylum in England, where he was made a prebendary of Canterbury, received a pension from Edward VI.'s privy purse, and composed his chief work, A Trajedy or Dialogue of the unjust usurped Primacy of the Bishop of Rome (1549) This remarkable performance, originally written in Latin, is extant only in the translation of John Ponet, bishop of Winchester, a splendid specimen of nervous English.

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  • Such old sea-ice when prevented from escaping forms the palaeocrystic sea of Nares; but, as a rule, it is carried southward in the .East Greenland and Labrador currents, and melted in the warmer seas of lower latitudes.

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  • Feeling herself helpless and almost isolated in Paris, she now relied chiefly on her friends outside France - Mercy, Count Axel Fersen, and the baron de Breteuil; and it was by their help and that of Bouille that after the death of Mirabeau, on the 8th of April 1791, the plan was arranged of escaping to Montmedy, which ended in the flight to Varennes (June 21, 1791).

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  • Escaping from her father she ran to hide her flushed face in the lace of her mother's mantilla--not paying the least attention to her severe remark--and began to laugh.

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  • Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms.

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  • He pointed to his manuscript book with that air of escaping from the ills of life with which unhappy people look at their work.

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  • She sat behind the bookcase with her eyes fixed on a streak of light escaping from the pantry door and listened to herself and pondered.

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  • Above all, they were gay because there was a war near Moscow, there would be fighting at the town gates, arms were being given out, everybody was escaping--going away somewhere, and in general something extraordinary was happening, and that is always exciting, especially to the young.

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  • At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon's armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolensk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight--and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians.

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  • The Sacred Heart tat has several variations, but it typically includes a heart surrounded by thorns with a flame escaping from the top.

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  • A sob caught in her throat, escaping in a strangled cry.

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  • The cuff around Jenn's arm kept her from escaping as well.

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  • She sensed the others creeping forward and ducked, escaping a second hand.

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  • Jonathan ghosted to his room for the evening, as though escaping the tension.

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  • Finally he sank into his chair, a long sigh escaping his lips.

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  • She gave a startled cry and fell back, barely escaping a hand trying to grab her.

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