All 15 Uses of
fugitive
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Yet when victims make their escape from the wild beast of Slavery, northerners consent to act the part of bloodhounds, and hunt the poor fugitive back into his den, "full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness."†
Chpt 6fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- But while the Free States sustain a law which hurls fugitives back into slavery, how can the slaves resolve to become men?†
Chpt 8fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- Before ten o'clock every vessel northward bound was thoroughly examined, and the law against harboring fugitives was read to all on board.†
Chpt 17
- I heard her carriage roll from the door, and I never again saw her who had so generously befriended the poor, trembling fugitive!†
Chpt 20fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- I heard slave-hunters planning how to catch some poor fugitive.†
Chpt 21
- Meantime, news came to town of a most horrible murder committed on a fugitive slave, named James.†
Chpt 29
- I had not yet told her that I was a fugitive slave.†
Chpt 33
- Mrs. Bruce did not know I was a fugitive.
Chpt 34 *fugitive = someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
- I had not concealed it merely on account of being a fugitive; that would have made her anxious, but it would have excited sympathy in her kind heart.†
Chpt 36fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- I don't know whether the pleasing face of my little girl had won his heart, or whether the stewardess inferred from Lawyer Hopper's manner that I was a fugitive, and had pleaded with him in my behalf.†
Chpt 36
- But when it was accidentally discovered that her mother was a fugitive slave, every method was used to increase her advantages and diminish her expenses.†
Chpt 40
- The slave Hamlin, the first fugitive that came under the new law, was given up by the bloodhounds of the north to the bloodhounds of the south.†
Chpt 40
- Many a wife discovered a secret she had never known before—that her husband was a fugitive, and must leave her to insure his own safety.†
Chpt 40
- But how few mothers would have consented to have one of their own babes become a fugitive, for the sake of a poor, hunted nurse, on whom the legislators of the country had let loose the bloodhounds!†
Chpt 40
- He remonstrated with her for harboring a fugitive slave; told her she was violating the laws of her country; and asked her if she was aware of the penalty.†
Chpt 40
Definitions:
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(1)
(fugitive as in: she is a fugitive) someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."