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  • his rifle ready, his eyes trained away from the house to the left and to the right, because likely as not the fugitive would make a dash for it.   (source)
    fugitive = someone who is running away or hiding from police
  • Sources are reporting that two Psi fugitives were picked up on the Ohio–West Virginia border, traveling on foot—   (source)
    fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
  • However, I am still a fugitive in the eyes of Elysia, and I cannot stay in one place for too long.   (source)
    fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
  • It was a crumpled piece of paper, evidently forgotten there by the fugitives, in their hurry to get away.   (source)
    fugitives = people running away to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
  • Here we found an excited and noisy crowd of fugitives.   (source)
    fugitives = people fleeing an unpleasant situation
  • Mrs. Bruce did not know I was a fugitive.   (source)
    fugitive = someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
  • Those looking for serious land moved on, and this infamous marsh became a net, scooping up a mishmash of mutinous sailors, castaways, debtors, and fugitives dodging wars, taxes, or laws that they didn't take to.†   (source)
  • Roy didn't think he'd done anything wrong, but he wondered if he could get in trouble for helping Mullet Fingers, a fugitive from the school system.†   (source)
  • But their substance was again lost to him, as fugitive as the shape of a candle's flame.†   (source)
  • If finding fugitives doesn't work out for me as a career, I might get into guardianship of billionaire children.†   (source)
  • After all, there was the murder of two German couriers in the desert, then the rounding up of suspects in the marketplace, the shooting of a fugitive, the pickpocketing of a Brit, the arrival by plane of the Gestapo, music and gambling at Rick's Café Americain, as well as the stashing of two letters of transit in a piano—and that was in the first ten minutes!†   (source)
  • I was now a fugitive, living under an assumed name.†   (source)
  • Sophie felt guilty turning Langdon into a fugitive only to abandon him, but she saw no other option.†   (source)
  • How would the words of a fugitive, desperate, tragic ugly look through pretty eyes?†   (source)
  • He'd come down with a fever and they lay in the woods like fugitives.†   (source)
  • I won't have the two of you living on the run, like fugitives.†   (source)
  • 14 I BECOME A KNOWN FUGITIVE I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.†   (source)
  • Even the comfort I had felt in Ty's and my privacy as we were driving in the dark seemed fugitive, luxurious.†   (source)
  • Not unless they want to become fugitives like me.†   (source)
  • It mattered to the Americans I met, and I didn't like how they responded: that I was in Canada by choice, that I was not a fugitive, and that I didn't have to be in Toronto—in my view, this made my commitment more serious; but in their view I was less desperate and, therefore, less serious.†   (source)
  • "Three moons ago," said Obierika, "on an Eke market day a little band of fugitives came into our town.†   (source)
  • Maybe WICKED had already sent out calls to be on the lookout for fugitives.†   (source)
  • But Lord Eddard was a thousand leagues away, a captive in some dungeon, a hunted fugitive running for his life, or even dead.†   (source)
  • The idea that Lunars were fugitives no longer sounded so odd.†   (source)
  • Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.†   (source)
  • He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head.†   (source)
  • Little was known about the Varden except that if you were a fugitive and had to hide, or if you hated the Empire, they would accept you.†   (source)
  • These fugitive dignitaries are both from the Batetela tribe and learned French in mission schools, but have no inkling of how to talk to the Kwango tribesmen who fish the rivers east of Léopoldville.†   (source)
  • I knew there would likely be savage retribution for a non-Taliban village sheltering an American fugitive, and I was praying they would not just leave me here.†   (source)
  • They looked like the fugitives they were.†   (source)
  • He or she will be chosen at random from a database of known fugitives worldwide.†   (source)
  • He was afraid that he would be unable to resist dramatizing himself to her—"Look, Amy, I'm not just shy and awkwTard Adam Farmer, but a fugitive on the run, leading a double life.†   (source)
  • Here was a new danger, a tiny fugitive too young to know the folly of making a noise.†   (source)
  • 'Misery?' she asked, almost as if she had never heard the word before , but there had been a momentary fugitive sparkle in her eyes, hadn't there?†   (source)
  • And from what I can guess, it's the oldest hospital trick in the book, taken straight from that movie The Fugitive, which Mom and I recently watched on TNT.†   (source)
  • It would make him self-conscious, remind him of his former life as a gloomy and fugitive boy.†   (source)
  • Both had their backs to the fugitives, but when one of them turned and looked suspiciously up the slope Meggie thought she recognized Basta's face, though it was little more than a patch of paler color in the night.†   (source)
  • It flared into light, sought the fugitive, there was another volley, and now it was his turn to leap into the air.†   (source)
  • The fellow sounded rather sinister to me, like a fugitive from the law or someone hiding from his family.†   (source)
  • "But he was nothing more than a fugitive from Cayenne, condemned to life imprisonment for an atrocious crime," said Dr. Urbino.†   (source)
  • We shall see when you're a fugitive with a price on your head and every man's hand turned against you to seek your life and the life of your son.†   (source)
  • Like any fugitive, I couldn't help looking over my shoulder a few times while I jogged to my truck, but the night was so black that there really was no point.†   (source)
  • On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag.†   (source)
  • It was known, of course, that she had a daughter who was not yet included on any transport list, and who was now being sought by the department of the Gestapo whose job it was to track down fugitive Jews.†   (source)
  • Were we on a list of wanted fugitives?†   (source)
  • He put down the receiver, filled with a fugitive excitement.†   (source)
  • Though I was leaving a world where I experienced freedom for the first time and returning to one where I was a fugitive, I was profoundly relieved to be back in the land of my birth and destiny.†   (source)
  • Before long they lost the course of the brook, slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes.†   (source)
  • And it was tempting, but being a fugitive for life was too much of a risk.†   (source)
  • The result was, of course, that an equal number of drunken men were soon impeding the flight of the fugitives.†   (source)
  • He could walk into a post office, it was said, go over to the Wanted posters, and, just by looking at the mug shots, say what crimes the various fugitives had committed.†   (source)
  • I was still in my fugitive mode, suspicious, as I passed a group of tiny old women, all of them hunched over and white haired.†   (source)
  • No matter how many push-ups he did or how fast he ran, he couldn't outpace the fact that he was a fugitive, living in the country illegally, and therefore barred from enlisting.†   (source)
  • But I found nothing save a few fugitives from the South; yet it seemed to me that on them sat a fear of which they would not speak.†   (source)
  • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth …. and whoever slayeth thee, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold.†   (source)
  • He never spoke of his son except within the privacy of his own family, but he was proud of him and preferred to see him as a fugitive than as one more of the peasants, planting potatoes and harvesting poverty like everybody else.†   (source)
  • He had a light beard now, like Harrison Ford's at the start of The Fugitive.†   (source)
  • Cedric spends the rest of the day feeling like a fugitive-not just from Mr. Dorosti but also from his own vaulted expectations for success that suddenly seem to be pursuing him as well.†   (source)
  • A fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be.†   (source)
  • It was a nightmare and he was the lone fugitive, panting down deserted dark hallways with the phantoms at his heels.†   (source)
  • I guess I'm a fugitive, but that's nothing new.†   (source)
  • "That wise man," I said, "you read about him, who when that fugitive escaped from the mob and ran to his school for protection, that wise man who was strong enough to do the legal thing, the law-abiding thing, to turn him over to the forces of law and order …."†   (source)
  • I found by fair daylight, the enemy were through the wood and descending the hill on the north side, on which, with twenty of my fugitive guard being all I could collect, I took post on a height in their front at about half a mile's distance—which halted their column and gave time for Lord Stirling with his forces to come up.†   (source)
  • The crowded merchandising complex was a blight on the French countryside but a welcome sight for the fugitives.†   (source)
  • A fugitive from my mother's bakery?†   (source)
  • Cops didn't try to shoot unarmed fugitives in the back.†   (source)
  • "I feel like a fugitive," said Eddie Willers.†   (source)
  • We're fugitives, Mr. McDaniels.†   (source)
  • It was rumored that he was a fugitive in America and could not return to that country, though no one could say for sure if this was true.†   (source)
  • That man is a fugitive!†   (source)
  • Either the house had been deserted to begin with, the fugitive had escaped by some hidden passage, he was cowering inside, or tiiey would have to kill him in a fight that would range from room to room.†   (source)
  • Attempts by their masters to reclaim these fugitives turned soldiers previously indifferent toward slavery into practical abolitionists.†   (source)
  • He asked for some kind of agreement in regard to the return of the hundreds of fugitive slaves living in Canada.†   (source)
  • The fourth Article of the Confederacy declares "that the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall, in every other, enjoy all the privileges of trade and commerce," etc. Why were the terms free inhabitants used in one part, free citizens in another, and people in another?†   (source)
  • Potomac, second crossing attempt April 22-23 Fugitives successfully cross the Potomac into Virginia, arriving before dawn on April 23†   (source)
  • While I was a fugitive, I kept hunting and fishing as much as I could—sandwiching the activities I loved around my offshore job.†   (source)
  • Over soup and salad, she complimented Oscar on his sunglasses and new hat, demanded to see snapshots of Stink's four sisters, listened with immense pleasure as Eddie recounted the final episodes of The Fugitive, clapped explosively to learn that Kimble had at last tracked down the one-armed man.†   (source)
  • They're fugitives from the real Communists.†   (source)
  • I'll be a fugitive.†   (source)
  • His eyebrows arched and he looked at Sophie with inebriate, wet, fugitive eyes, unsmiling.†   (source)
  • The fugitive laws suggest how often.†   (source)
  • At this moment I am in a kind of fugitive status.†   (source)
  • I suppose it must wear on a man's nerves to be a fugitive when everybody else is either a citizen or a legal resident, even when the police aren't trying to find him.†   (source)
  • His wife and children had spent the whole of the past summer as fugitives on dusty roads under the open sky.†   (source)
  • In 1854, when only twenty-eight, he had taken part in the mob rescue of a fugitive slave in Milwaukee.†   (source)
  • Most of the time it feels like we're fugitives rather than tourists.†   (source)
  • Turn over the fugitive to me, and this gold is yours.†   (source)
  • The fugitives were probably unarmed, and yet the field team entered the room with weapons raised.†   (source)
  • She isn't a fugitive—she isn't even Lunar.†   (source)
  • Are the fugitives currently in your vehicle?†   (source)
  • The Garretts swung the barn door shut behind the fugitives.†   (source)
  • "Maybe not another fugitive," Stenton said into her earpiece.†   (source)
  • I'm about to dash out of the Louvre… a fugitive.†   (source)
  • Word of the victory at River-run had spread to the fugitive lords of the Trident, drawing them back.†   (source)
  • Decimated but stubborn, they were among those who chose a fugitive life rather than Oklahoma.†   (source)
  • "Your father is either dead or a fugitive, son," the inspector said.†   (source)
  • "Why should you welcome fugitives?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • "He's not a fugitive after all," my mom interjected.†   (source)
  • The system recognized me as Wade Watts, not as the fugitive indent Bryce Lynch.†   (source)
  • The girl—the fugitive will be held in our prison until your departure.†   (source)
  • On the morning of Tuesday, April 18, Jones paid his third call on the fugitives.†   (source)
  • If you're fugitives from the Harkonnens, it may be you're welcome among us.†   (source)
  • Sending someone to retrieve us would be considered aiding a fugitive of the French government.†   (source)
  • In seconds, the computer will select, at random, a fugitive from justice.†   (source)
  • Harboring a fugitive is grounds for war, young emperor.†   (source)
  • Cox swung open the door and invited the fugitives into his home.†   (source)
  • They claim you are transporting fugitives from the law on this plane.†   (source)
  • "Why would you think we're sheltering Lunar fugitives?"†   (source)
  • The French police are tracking two fugitives tonight.†   (source)
  • The soldiers huddled with the fugitives and hatched a plan.†   (source)
  • "Plus, she's now under the impression that we're intentionally harboring Lunar fugitives."†   (source)
  • The fugitives ate, then immediately headed for the river,  about a mile away.†   (source)
  • Usually, fugitives panicked on the street and did something stupid.†   (source)
  • Baker ordered John Garrett to enter the barn and take the weapons from the fugitives.†   (source)
  • Article 17 states that no party of the agreement shall knowingly shelter or protect Lunar fugitives.†   (source)
  • Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape.†   (source)
  • After supper, the fugitives again discussed where they might find transportation, probably horses.†   (source)
  • That meant the fugitives were only about a day's ride ahead of them.†   (source)
  • Before they could continue on their escape south, the fugitives had business at the tavern.†   (source)
  • Mudd's lies delayed the cavalry's departure long enough to allow the fugitives to escape Maryland.†   (source)
  • The fugitives did not hear the sliding bolt, did not know they were prisoners.†   (source)
  • Baker shouted an ultimatum to the fugitives: "I want you to surrender.†   (source)
  • Let Murtagh and his monster of a dragon catch our mysterious fugitive, eh?†   (source)
  • He wondered about being a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, like Camille had said.†   (source)
  • Either way, he was a fugitive who had to be located and brought to justice.†   (source)
  • You know, of course, that it is illegal to give help to a fugitive.†   (source)
  • He was a fugitive from all the plagues and catastrophes that had ever lashed mankind.†   (source)
  • When the dogs began to bay, Theon figured the fugitives were near at hand.†   (source)
  • From that faction of thieves and fugitives?†   (source)
  • Yet you ask me to become a fugitive for you?†   (source)
  • The storm and the difficult going had upset the fugitives and disorganized them.†   (source)
  • For her to attempt to bring them out when she was a fugitive herself would be an impossibility.†   (source)
  • At the end of that sequence the fugitive would generally be found.†   (source)
  • Also, madame, you do not look or speak like a fugitive from justice.†   (source)
  • The fugitive thought his final hour had arrived and, in a strange way, he was happy.†   (source)
  • He closed the door of his bedroom like a fugitive winning a moment's reprieve.†   (source)
  • The fugitives almost paddle headlong into the Juniper, a Federal gunboat.†   (source)
  • And then there was the search for the fugitive Lisbeth Salander.†   (source)
  • A fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.†   (source)
  • A fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be.†   (source)
  • Fugitives spotted crossing the Rappahannock River†   (source)
  • He was arrested in Boston, on February 15, 1851, charged with being a fugitive slave.†   (source)
  • And it was in May that the most dramatic of the fugitive slave cases began to unfold in Boston.†   (source)
  • She soon learned that many of these people were fugitive slaves like herself.†   (source)
  • She knew what a fugitive would do on the nights when it rained, and the North Star was obscured.†   (source)
  • It was dark when Harriet returned to the fugitives.†   (source)
  • A whole wall swung open, and behind it was a room where he could hide fugitives.†   (source)
  • Three fugitives were brought into Fortress Monroe by the Union picket guard.†   (source)
  • Anyone who saw them would know they were fugitives.†   (source)
  • The posters offering rewards for the fugitives could not be printed until Monday.†   (source)
  • Fugitives from Cair Andros have already reached us.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of half-looted houses now, and plenty of fugitives.†   (source)
  • Men were sent to meet the fugitives and to divert them to a village on the river Chilimka.†   (source)
  • So much had happened since then that I'd almost forgotten about the high school orientation at Goode-the fact I'd left the band hall in flames, and my mom's boyfriend had last seen me jumping through a window like a fugitive.†   (source)
  • An American Fugitive Cornered by the Taliban Then I found a piece of flinty rock on the floor of the cave, and, lying painfully on my left side, I spent two hours carving the words of the Count of Monte Cristo onto the wall of my pri son: God will give me justice. oarawa and his friends did not attempt to take away my rifle.†   (source)
  • A fugitive thought that they would have been better off as Ty's daughters, as my daughters, than as Rose's and Pete's—wasn't this accident clear proof of that?†   (source)
  • Not even Blomkvist would have thought that the fugitive ex-billionaire would be stupid enough to take along the computer that had been so thoroughly penetrated.†   (source)
  • Florentino did not find out until many days later, when the fugitive husband was captured and told the newspapers the reasons for the crime and how he had committed it.†   (source)
  • It was then the two young fugitives leaped from the smelly bundle of dirty clothes and made a run for it.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I have to read about the effects of smallpox on indigenous populations tonight, so I can't really solve The Case of the Fugitive Billionaire."†   (source)
  • A criminal, a fugitive.†   (source)
  • Since Hitler's Germany had obviously lost the war anyway, the fugitive, with forethought, gave his anonymous helper a useful piece of information.†   (source)
  • Maybe the fellow was a fugitive.†   (source)
  • Let me show you, again, the last known photo of this troubled young fugitive, taken a week ago in Denver.†   (source)
  • How recklessly she behaved with this whitegirlNa recklessness born of desperation and encouraged by Amy's fugitive eyes and her tenderhearted mouth.†   (source)
  • It now contained the ID photo taken during my indent processing, and the words WANTED FUGITIVE were superimposed over my face.†   (source)
  • The top search result for "Unless you leave a leg behind" was a news article called "How White-Collar Fugitives Survive on the Lam"; the quote in question referred to how difficult it is to fake your own death.†   (source)
  • He could not be identified with certainty, but the evening papers contacted stringers who tried without success to track down the fugitive billionaire.†   (source)
  • He was the only one who knew how to react when the fugitive parrot appeared in the dining room at midnight with his head high and his wings spread, which caused a stupefied shudder to run through the house, for it seemed a sign of repentance.†   (source)
  • I'm a fugitive from the CIA.†   (source)
  • There were spies over there waiting for the fugitives, and paid agents and willing volunteers who would later attack the Jew they had been observing in some side street, making him hand over any money and jewellery he had on him and threatening to turn him in to the Germans.†   (source)
  • They unhitched from schoolteacher's horse the borrowed mule that was to carry the fugitive woman back to where she belonged, and tied it to the fence.†   (source)
  • That is why I might welcome a fugitive.†   (source)
  • They had met in a convalescent home in Port-au-Prince, where she had been born and where he had spent his early years as a fugitive, and she had followed him here a year later for a brief visit, although both of them knew without agreeing to anything that she had come to stay forever.†   (source)
  • Mae worried, momentarily, that this would be some botched effort, a fugitive found but then quickly lost by a fumbling coworker.†   (source)
  • We have just received a bulletin from government authorities regarding two fugitives in the area of the Adams Building ….†   (source)
  • From time to time, fragments of fugitive voices escaped through the open balconies, bedroom confidences, sobs of love magnified by phantasmal acoustics and the hot fragrance of jasmine in the narrow, sleeping streets.†   (source)
  • My good friends and companions, Thufir Hawat and Duncan Idaho, my years as a fugitive without rank or succor …. and one more thing: it is now kanly and you know as well as I the rules that must prevail.†   (source)
  • "Our second target today is not a fugitive from justice, but you might say he's a fugitive from, well, friendship."†   (source)
  • Omar watched as the two fugitives quickly found the plaza's famous Great Seal—one of the largest bronze medallions ever cast.†   (source)
  • Four stars were visible by the time they found, not a riverboat to stow Sethe away on, or a ferryman willing to take on a fugitive passenger--nothing like that--but a whole boat to steal.†   (source)
  • Am I foolish to aid these fugitives?†   (source)
  • "Let's select that fugitive."†   (source)
  • The fugitives had left their telltale heat signatures on the room's lone exit—a heavy steel door whose keypad showed four clear fingerprints glowing on the numbers.†   (source)
  • He had stepped foot in this house only once after the Misery (which is what he called Sethe's rough response to the Fugitive Bill) and that was to carry Baby Suggs, holy, out of it.†   (source)
  • Giving advice; passing messages; healing the sick, hiding fugitives, loving, cooking, cooking, loving, preaching, singing, dancing and loving everybody like it was her job and hers alone.†   (source)
  • But one of the strangest facets of our world is how fugitives from justice can hide in a world as interconnected as ours.†   (source)
  • Under normal circumstances, this maze of stacks would have been a respectable hiding place, but the Library of Congress used motion-activated lights to save energy, and the fugitives' escape route was now lit up like a runway.†   (source)
  • In law enforcement, hesitating to arrest a fugitive only occurred when uncertainty had arisen regarding the suspect's guilt.†   (source)
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