Both Uses of
fugitive
in
Bleak House
- At last the fugitive, hard-pressed, takes to a narrow passage and a court which has no thoroughfare.†
Chpt 46-48 *
- With this peroration, Mr. Bucket, buttoned up, goes quietly out, looking steadily before him as if he were already piercing the night in quest of the fugitive.†
Chpt 55-57
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