All 22 Uses
fugitive
in
The Rainbow Trail
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- Would they be there, those lost fugitives whose story had thrilled him?†
Chpt 1 *fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- The descendants of these fugitives live there now and are the finest Indians on earth—the finest because unspoiled by the white man.†
Chpt 4
- He had espied the fugitives.†
Chpt 16
- Save for that fugitive glance she would have been the Fay Larkin of yesterday.†
Chpt 16fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- Nas Ta Bega led at a brisk trot, and sometimes, on level stretches of ground, at an easy canter; and Shefford had a grim realization of what this flight was going to be for these three fugitives, now so unaccustomed to riding.†
Chpt 17fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- He urged his mustang to the descent of the slope, and as he went down, slowly drawing nearer to the other fugitives, his mind alternated between this strange intimation of faith, this subtle uplift of hid spirit, and the growing gloom and shadow in his love for Fay Larkin.†
Chpt 17
- At last only a long, gently rising slope separated the fugitives from that labyrinthine network of wildly carved rock.†
Chpt 17
- It became a race then, with the couple of miles between fugitives and pursuers only imperceptibly lessened.†
Chpt 17
- The fugitives had reached the height of stone wall, of the divide, and many of the drops upon this side were perpendicular and too steep to see the bottom.†
Chpt 17
- Upon a particularly tedious and dangerous side of rocky hill the fugitives lost so much time that Shefford grew exceedingly alarmed.†
Chpt 17
- The short twilight ended with the fugitives comfortable in a camp that for natural features could not have been improved upon.†
Chpt 17
- And the fugitives, dismounting to spare the faithful beasts, slipped and stumbled over these loose and treacherous stones.†
Chpt 17
- Down and down the fugitives toiled.†
Chpt 17
- The place was oppressive and the fugitives mostly silent.†
Chpt 18
- The fugitives traveled miles farther down Nonnezoshe Boco, and the only changes were that the walls of the lower gorge heightened and merged into those above and that these upper ones towered ever loftier.†
Chpt 19
- These lonely fugitives in the huge-walled canyon waiting for a boatman to come down that river!†
Chpt 19
- After the meal suspense and strain were manifested in all the fugitives, even the imperturbable Indian being more than usually watchful.†
Chpt 19
- The fugitives went ashore and, weary and silent and drenched, they dropped in the warm sand.†
Chpt 19
- All the fugitives were listening.†
Chpt 19
- And then the fugitives turned through a V-shaped vent in the canyon.†
Chpt 19
- The Mormon flung high his arms and let out the stentorian yell that had rolled down to the fugitives as they waited at the mouth of Nonnezoshe Boco.†
Chpt 19
- A young, sweet-faced woman stood in the door of the post and she it was who first sighted the fugitives.†
Chpt 20
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."