All 15 Uses
fugitive
in
The Lone Star Ranger
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- But sight of the horse and the look of his uncle recalled the fact that he must now become a fugitive.†
Chpt 2fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- For he was a fugitive from justice, an outlaw.†
Chpt 2
- As he was now a fugitive, it seemed every man was his enemy and pursuer.†
Chpt 2
- Rangers or a posse of ranchers in pursuit of a fugitive!†
Chpt 2
- Dawn caught the fugitives at a green camping-site on the bank of a rocky little stream.†
Chpt 3 *fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- Duane imagined it had been built by a fugitive—one who meant to keep an eye both ways and not to be surprised.†
Chpt 9fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- On the border fugitives from law and men who hid in fear of some one they had wronged never lived in houses with only one door.†
Chpt 10fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- They were half a mile away, and swinging obliquely across the flat, which fact proved that they had entertained a fair idea of the country and the fugitive's difficulty.†
Chpt 11fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- His faculties, like those of old fugitives and hunted creatures, had become trained to a marvelous keenness.†
Chpt 12fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- The former were more valuable to their owner and the latter more dangerous to the fugitive.†
Chpt 12fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- In MacNelly's Duane read truth, strong, fiery purpose, hope, even gladness, and a fugitive mounting assurance of victory.†
Chpt 14
- This proceeding served a double purpose—he was safer, and the habit would look well in the eyes of outlaws, who would be more inclined to see in him the lone-wolf fugitive.†
Chpt 15
- For years the daytime, with its birth of sunrise on through long hours to the ruddy close, had been used for sleep or rest in some rocky hole or willow brake or deserted hut, had been hated because it augmented danger of pursuit, because it drove the fugitive to lonely, wretched hiding; now the dawn was a greeting, a promise of another day to ride, to plan, to remember, and sun, wind, cloud, rain, sky—all were joys to him, somehow speaking his freedom.†
Chpt 15
- He selected an exceedingly rough, roundabout, and difficult course to Ord, hid his tracks with the skill of a long-hunted fugitive, and arrived there with his horse winded and covered with lather.†
Chpt 21
- He had become an outcast, a wanderer, a gunman, a victim of circumstances; he had lost and suffered worse than death in that loss; he had gone down the endless bloody trail, a killer of men, a fugitive whose mind slowly and inevitably closed to all except the instinct to survive and a black despair; and now, with this woman in his arms, her swelling breast against his, in this moment almost of resurrection, he bent under the storm of passion and joy possible only to him who had endured so much.†
Chpt 24
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) Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."