All 5 Uses of
fugitive
in
The House of Mirth
- She steadied herself with a laugh and drew back; but he was enveloped in the scent of her dress, and his shoulder had felt her fugitive touch.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Mrs. Bry's TABLEAUX wanted none of the qualities which go to the producing of such illusions, and under Morpeth's organizing hand the pictures succeeded each other with the rhythmic march of some splendid frieze, in which the fugitive curves of living flesh and the wandering light of young eyes have been subdued to plastic harmony without losing the charm of life.†
Chpt 1.12
- Her whole future might hinge on her way of answering him: she had to stop and consider that, in the stress of her other anxieties, as a breathless fugitive may have to pause at the cross-roads and try to decide coolly which turn to take.†
Chpt 1.15
- The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started.†
Chpt 2.1
- He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(fugitive as in: she is a fugitive) someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation