All 4 Uses of
elude
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- She had walked nearly two miles of her journey, watching how the day was retreating, and thinking how the time of deeds was quietly melting into the time of thought, to give place in its turn to the time of prayer and sleep, when she beheld advancing over Yalbury hill the very man she sought so anxiously to elude.†
Chpt 31-33
- She had tried to elude agitation by fixing her mind on the trees, sky, any trivial object before her eyes, whilst his reproaches fell, but ingenuity could not save her now.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it.†
Chpt 46-48
- The planting of flowers on Fanny's grave had been perhaps but a species of elusion of the primary grief, and now it was as if his intention had been known and circumvented.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(elude as in: she eluded the police) to avoid, or get away fromin various senses, including:
- "She eluded the police."
- "She eluded danger and finally arrived safely at home."
- "She always messes up, but some how eludes taking responsibility."