How To Use Fugitive In A Sentence

It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
A young sea captain's future is transformed as he encounters mutiny, adventure and a beautiful fugitive in this romantic thriller set during an epic voyage to Shanghai.
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.

McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
But it is wilful — the very wind in the comings and goings of its influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, sweet moments; since we often stand even before the greatest works of Art without being able quite to lose ourselves! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment! Hawthorne and His Circle
US marshals specialize in finding fugitives and escapees.
In 1863 Debus transformed hydrocyanic acid into methylamine with platinum black; however, this reaction is fugitive and soon ceases because cyanidation of the metal rapidly destroys its capacity to induce the reaction. Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
‘My Times,’ by contrast, is the work of a journalistic fugitive with nothing to lose, a man pugnaciously determined to go down swinging.
The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
It has just added 10 new people to its published list of the most wanted alleged tax fugitives in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
On the morning of February 11, a fugitive wanted online throughout the country was arrested.
The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity. Deconstructing Obama
But the black smoke of the granary belching against the white hills, or the kyloe, houghed and maimed, roaring in its agony, or the fugitive brought bloody on his knees among the rocks -- God's mercy! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Why is the fugitive slave, the fiery orator, the political activist, the abolitionist always represented as a black man?
Bring him back!" ordered Hugh, and his officers swung willingly into the byroad, and spurred into a gallop after the fugitive. The Holy Thief
In the Treasurer's Accounts, we find 10s. was paid to a messenger, sent on the 3d of December 1547, with "Letters to serche and seik the gudes of Maister Jhonne Gray, persoun of Sanct Nycholace Kirk, beside Cowper, quhilkis pertenis to our Souerane Lady be resoun of eschete, throu the said Maister Jhonnis being fugitive fra the lawes for art and part of the slauchter of the Cardinall. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
In the space of a few short months, he went from being master of a continent to a fugitive.
Soluble in water and alcohol, this colouring principle yields by precipitation with chloride of calcium a compound known as 'Solid French Purple', a pigment more stable than the archil colours generally, but all too fugitive for the palette. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
A fugitive escapes to the underground sewer of an unnamed city.
Harvey Keitel also scores as a cop who thinks he understands them and tries to bring the fugitives in peacefully. Top 10 Ridley Scott Films » Scene-Stealers
As evidence of his desire to remove this most tangible of Southern gravamina, Douglas introduced a supplementary fugitive slave bill on Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics
Some filmmakers shine a bright light that blurs the intimate, the indistinct and the fugitive.
Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers.
From here, the novel follows Vlad Dracula from his days as a young hostage at Sultan Murad's court in Edirne through his tumultuous career as a fugitive, a warlord Prince, a prisoner and a noble in the court of the king of Hungary. Archive 2009-03-01
Members of the rosaniline group are all similarly fugitive, while those of the alizarin group possess generally the quality of fastness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Areopagitica
Below her there were fugitive glimpses of a winding thread of water that was the canal.
They ran down the fugitive
Over by the gate the spirea had ventured into showering sprays exhaling a shy and fugitive fragrance, and what had been a blur of gray cables strung upon the oaks had begun to bud with emerald and blossom with amethyst -- the wisteria was a-borning. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
Our goal is to stabilize the ratio of people who are now becoming absconders or fugitives and the number of people we're removing from the country.
The taxi entered the square like a fugitive, flitting into the sodium lighting that glared on its tinted windscreen. THE LAST RAVEN
The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of felons and fugitives, etc., within the hundred belonged to the lord if the bailiff of the hundred seized them first.
I've profiled a lot of fugitives that have had female accomplices and accessories.
Serbian police admitted they found the fugitive by CHANCE as he walked in the garden of his secret bolthole as they prepared to raid homes nearby. The Sun
Law enforcement agents, looking for fugitives from justice, found no way to break down this system, nor any law which they could interpret as making it illegal to quick-freeze.
In fugitive colors, particles are packed closely (perhaps because, although he does not say so, they tend to remain on the surface of the fibers) and so exhibit their rays more "glowingly" than they would if the color were dispersed or separated. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
For certain noted fugitives from the army of King Monmouth (which he himself had deserted, in a low and currish manner), having failed to obtain free shipment from the coast near Watersmouth, had returned into the wilds of Exmoor, trusting to lurk, and be comforted among the common people. Lorna Doone
There was no doubt that they would be able to intercept the fugitives, but it would take skill and cunning and not a little luck to close the jaws and trap the prey between them.
The successful materialization of these fugitive images is a challenge.
As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
After the cinereous satire, the irony and catharsis of downfallen feelings have been deepened, whose humor is full of fugitive feelings of escaping narration.
He opened his cabinet door and found his colleagues lolling about like a bunch of tattooed fugitives in a Marbella nightclub. Times, Sunday Times
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
He tells us he is on the run,'a fugitive from justice. Times, Sunday Times
The Atlantic's "Ms. Grammar" (aka Barbara Wallraff) talks about wordplay, recreational word coining, and her new book, Word Fugitives. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
Here are some other cases involving fugitives from justice. The Sun
The ratings range from Class I (very lightfast) to Class V (very fugitive). Lightfastness and Alizarin Crimson
The pro-slavery compromise of the Constitution which required the rendition of fugitive slaves was abrogated.
Anderson, who had taken refuge in Canada; and, unquestionably, we shall do so again and again whenever and by whomsoever reclamation is made upon us for fugitive slaves. The West Indies, Free Labour, and Cotton
GAINESVILLE | A Gainesville woman accused of sneaking into a minimum-security prison for a rendezvous with her boyfriend has been arrested and he remains a fugitive after jumping out a window. News | LL | http://www.theledger.com
They hate foreigners because Americans are foreigners, fugitives from the old order.
A city-wide search last night failed to locate the fugitive firebug, and police fear that he may strike again.
I see the quality of those blue green works of mine as being very fugitive.
The roar of the conflict along the river had become terrific; to the east a New Jersey battery, obscured in flame-shot clouds, was retiring by its twenty-eight-foot prolonges, using cannister; the remains of a New Hampshire infantry regiment supported the retreat; between the two batteries Claymore in his shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, heavy revolver swinging in his blackened fist, was giving a tongue lashing to the stream of fugitives from the river woods. Ailsa Paige
The dour fugitives on the other side of the stream have a legend that those who safely cross the "Field of Blood" -- so they call the anemone-sprinkled land beyond -- without so much as crushing a flower may claim sanctuary under the British flag. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
Dr. Wu was a fugitive for many years, yes, after the lamentable scandal to which you refer.
Then I'll become a fugitive. The Sun
As they questioned the Algerian fugitive, another man who was in the flat launched a frenzied attack with a kitchen knife.
A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
We get two to three thousand calls every week, and we've caught 723 dangerous fugitives in 31 countries.
The fugitive bird was finally nabbed between 1pm and 2pm last Thursday but is said to be recovering well from the ordeal… with the help of 60 hens!
The federal government also pursued the matter of fugitive slaves escaping overland to territories held by foreign powers.
The fugitive is believed to be headed for the Canadian border.
And of all the unreckoned waves advancing, lifting their fugitive crests, and roaring, there certainly was not one that fell with weight so futile as his own. Springhaven
Readers may be shocked to learn that I am currently harbouring a political fugitive.
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
Francklin says that the troops overtook the fugitives 'at the village of Kerwah, in the begum's jaghire, four miles distant from her capital', (p. 58.) 28. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
US marshals specialize in finding fugitives and escapees.
He was a fixture in the liturgical life of the recusant safe-houses, the great country homes of Catholic aristocrats, which served as 16 th-century catacombs riddled with secret chambers to hide fugitive priests.
By contrast, the Galactica has to drag along a ragtag fugitive fleet where most of the people live in boxcars. Archive 2009-06-01
She was a Romantic ballerina of fugitive lightness, with a delicacy as much like steel as late.
The relative studies deem that controlling fugitive dust pollution by dust - depressor is effective and feasible.
Some of the fugitive workers obtained new identification papers using an alias, making it that much more difficult to track them down.
If, however, the fugitive is committed to prison, the Act contemplates that he may seek to challenge that warrant by habeas corpus proceedings.
A Spanish soldier is represented dragging a fugitive Indian from a lake by a lasso around his neck; while on the shore stands a monk ready to baptize the recreant on his arrival!” [ Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
That was fortunate for Concord; after March 7, when the great orator endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law, Webster was execrated by many of his one-time worshipers.
A third of all British fugitives arrested were tracked down in Holland. The Sun
I would rather die first, or become a fugitive from justice!
Not long after the first foundation of the city, they opened a sanctuary of refuge for all fugitives, which they called the temple of the god The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
In the distance, the blue Pyrenees look like a bank of clouds; the air that bathes them shapes them into aërial forms, vapory phantoms, the farthest of which vanish in the canescent horizon -- dim contours, that might be taken for a fugitive sketch from the lightest of pencils. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
Its fugitive Dalai Lama and his "government-in-exile" have found refuge in India since 1959—and China blames him, and by extension his hosts, for the continued rebelliousness in his homeland.
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Archive 2006-01-01
To him, as to so many of the fugitives from Eastern European pogroms, the Yiddish theater seemed to have a past as deep as Jewish history.
After the sighting, the FBI's multiagency violent fugitive task force in Boston and inspectors from New Scotland Yard scoured London hotels, Internet cafes and gyms in search of Bulger. Mobster Whitey Bulger arrested in California
One really shouldn't engage in atrocity one-upmanship, but it's arguable that compared with such more famous current and recent fugitives as Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Karadzic, wins the odiousness sweepstakes. Karadzic finally arrested for war crimes
On the morning of February 10, a wanted fugitive surrendered himself to police.
Entering with a careless air and taking a seat at a table near that occupied by the fugitive and the man in the slouch hat, he called for a plate of meat and a "chopine" of wine in a guttural voice. Monsieur Lecoq
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
At the crest of the hill, the fugitives emerged once again into the moonlight and rested briefly.
Unlike Douglass and Jacobs, Truth did not spend years living as a fugitive slave, and she had the additional legal protection of being officially emancipated by the state within months of her escape.
The soon-to-be fugitive rented the apartment at the furthest end of the top floor of the building. Times, Sunday Times
Breathless messengers, fugitive Swiss, denunciatory Patriots, trepidation; finally tripudiation! The French Revolution
A GANG of fugitives are arrested after their getaway car was stopped in its tracks by hundreds of sheep. The Sun
Therefore, after the cliffhanging events of The Search For Spock (the Enterprise destroyed, the crew fugitives), I was thrilled to see that DC's Star Trek comic was picking up directly from the movie. Young as when the world was new | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
A fugitive is offered a place to hide by an ex-convict, leading to a deadly encounter with her violent brother. The Sun
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 generated a w ve of violence inundating those who persisted in helping slaves to gain freedom.
A fugitive gangster takes refuge in a decadent rock star's London home. Times, Sunday Times
It is another fugitive inscription on the page of earth that it is necessary to seize, that you want to understand.
The rebel leadership offered a bounty and an amnesty to anyone who killed or captured the fugitive leader, hoping that his bodyguards might betray him. Times, Sunday Times
A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
I hastened to that stand of "jarvies" which has often been the hope and shelter of belated member of St. St.phen's, or bewetted fugitive from the Opera. Pelham — Volume 08
Kafir tribes from the north-east were chased southward into the mountain country now called Basutoland, most of which had been previously inhabited only by Bushmen, and here the Basuto kingdom was built up out of fugitive clans, by the famous chief Moshesh, between 1820 and 1840. Impressions of South Africa
Advocating jury nullification is only unethical if jury nullification is itself unethical– a highly questionable stance, given such historical examples as the Zenger libel case, the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Laws, and the role of nullification in the repeal of Prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Perhaps the Most Riveting First Chapter I Have Ever Read:
Essentially, it is an area source with a third (height) dimension (for example, the fugitive gaseous emissions from piping flanges, valves and other equipment at various heights within industrial facilities such as petrochemical plants). Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The trailer had me riveted from the opening, the way in which it just threw away any pretense to add in dialogue or exposition or, for that matter, an explanation of the movie as it just sticks to the fun parts of a Fugitive meets Rambo kind of movie. This Week In Trailers: The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos), American: The Bill Hicks Story, The Square, Jake, Kajínek | /Film
Alone in an immense, perfectly flat valley backing onto Mount Cook National Park, I played fugitive, spending my days stalking the brown trout that floated dead-center in the streams, arrogant and regal, unshadowed by man.
It would be more than two decades before the fugitive would face justice for his terrible actions. The Sun
The rebel leadership offered a bounty and an amnesty to anyone who killed or captured the fugitive leader, hoping that his bodyguards might betray him. Times, Sunday Times
Why construct a hero so multiple, so spread out, so fugitive?
The woman and a 30-year-old man were arrested on charges of false imprisonment, serious assault and aiding and abetting a fugitive.
The fugitive was sprung by a gang who ambushed a van taking him to court in Stafford. The Sun
In attacking the cloistered monks and nuns of my Roman Catholic Church, the brilliant, if occasionally logorrheic, John Milton wrote in his defense of free speech, "Areopagitica," that "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed. How I Learned Not to Fear the Anti-God Squad
It is, in essence, a buddy piece: a fugitive, arrested 30 years before for protesting his government's eugenics program, forms a grudging friendship with an alien.
Fugitive emissions are uncontrolled vapour emissions from leaking tanks, pipes, valves etc, commonly encountered in petrochemical industries.
But the fugitives were captured at Varennes, and brought back to Paris in disgrace.
A durable pigment may be so adulterated as to descend to the second or even the third division, while a semi-stable or fugitive colour may be replaced by a permanent or comparatively permanent substitute, as in the case of strontian yellow and gallstone. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Meanwhile the fugitive couple were hounded by press photographers. Times, Sunday Times
It hadn't helped that Bad Boy Bobby was now an outlaw - a fugitive rumoured to be mustering the troops in the fearful Deep North.
Information gathered by the police indicates that all of the fugitives have scattered.
Other beneficiaries include an international financier and fugitive, Marc Rich; a leftist radical convicted of conspiring to bomb the U.S.
Nobody in the neighborhood apparently paid special attention to the fugitives' activities until after they had bolted.
And he is one of the six most wanted fugitives by the FBI.
A woaded color, for example, is only fast in respect of the vat indigo which it contains, and yet how frequent is the custom to unite with the indigo such dyes as barwood, orchil, and indigo-carmine, the fugitive character of which I have pointed out. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
His masterstroke was a proclamation by letter of his abhorrence of the fugitive slave law. Anthony Burns : a history,
We take a lot of measures to stop fugitive dust blow.
Jackson was acutely aware that Florida was a dangerous haven for fugitive slaves.
White men are known to harbor fugitives, in the neighborhood of Christiana, and these white men are known to be abolitionists, known to be opposed to the F.gitive Slave Law, and _known_ to be the warm friends of William F. Johnston, The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Auth
Along with his crew, he becomes a fugitive from his own country. The Sun
They emerged from 1960s radical chic to become America's most wanted fugitives.
What exactly happened in those final hours on the run and why did the cabby help the fugitive check into a hotel under his own name?
In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.” Deconstructing Obama
A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
He opened his cabinet door and found his colleagues lolling about like a bunch of tattooed fugitives in a Marbella nightclub. Times, Sunday Times
The man who had ruled his country with a brutal and inflexible religious law was now ‘an absconder, a fugitive from justice’ he said.
Coke was arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston on Tuesday, peacefully ending a manhunt for the fugitive at the center of last month's deadly raids in the Jamaican capital.
And sometimes, also, do I find a fugitive creature in my dovecote, which is alien to me, and trembleth when I lay my hand upon it. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
It has the great and salutary benefit of constantly reminding us how hard won is fugitive information about even quite senior office-holders.
Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
ONE of Britain's most wanted tax fugitives has been arrested after five years on the fun. The Sun
Looking like fugitives from a bankrupt circus, the platoon slowly motored down a narrow muddy road to rejoin Charlie Company.
Abetting a fugitive slave in antebellum America was widely considered a sin against God, but Huck destroys the letter with the defiant avowal: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.”
There is no Guggenheim Museum for a fugitive art form whose works are sprayed and pasted on public walls in the dead of night. Times, Sunday Times
KINGSTON (Reuters) - Alleged drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke was arrested by police on the outskirts of Kingston on Tuesday, peacefully ending a manhunt for the fugitive at the center of last month's deadly raids in the Jamaican capital. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
Trains that pass prisons should also remember to leave a wagon door open so the fugitives can jump in. Times, Sunday Times
The officers watched in amazement as their daring fugitive escaped.
Judges and prosecutors hate this process, since it takes a lot of power away from them, but it has a reason and a purpose in the history of British common law, two notable examples being the notorious Zenger case in the UK and the failure of prosecutions in both fugitive slave cases and prohibition cases. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Flip for Every Citizen
Some three hundred yards away certain French knights, mounted, often two upon one horse, or afoot, were flying from that awful field, striking out to the right in order to clear themselves of the cumbering horde of fugitives. Red Eve
The bank was declared a fugitive from justice when three Swiss-based executives failed to appear in court. Times, Sunday Times
A man described as Cosa Nostra's No. 2 fugitive boss, identified as Giovanni Nicchi, is held by Italian police officers after his arrest in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009. Undefined
They shared a fugitive embrace.
Justice Story deemed the fugitive slave clause a sin qua non to ratification, probably giving it more respect than it deserved. Balkinization
A young fugitive on a motorbike ran out of petrol and was kissed by the boss's snooty daughter as a dare.
Now in his 16th season, "America's Most Wanted " has helped capture 735 fugitives.
He is now an international fugitive from justice. Times, Sunday Times
The soon-to-be fugitive rented the apartment at the furthest end of the top floor of the building. Times, Sunday Times
-- At Amiens, where almost every individual is an aristocrate, the fugitive Deputies could not procure the least encouragement, but the town would have received Dumouriez, and proclaimed the King without opposition. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
It is exactly what Baudelaire hymned: "the fugitive, fleeting beauty of present-day life". Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life; Fiona Banner: Duveens Commission 2010
Evelyn, “borne on a branch set with thorns, and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses.” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
There is no Guggenheim Museum for a fugitive art form whose works are sprayed and pasted on public walls in the dead of night. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he was about to apprehend a fugitive who'd eluded the police for eleven years.
Cut by impassable canyons and unfordable rivers, gulches, and gullies, Brown's Park not only offered an ideal hideout to fugitives but also provided excellent winter and summer range for stolen stock.
This morning's ruling cleared the way for the convicted child rapist, locally-registered sex offender, fugitive sex murder suspect, and buddy of PUSD supe Percy Clark to be remanded to the custody of the Orange County Sheriff for transportation back to This is an archive of a past election
Many were political fugitives from their own countries, and, as stateless people, they naturally turned against the very idea of a state.
But while the imperial commander was wasting his time in comfortable winter quarters, the fugitive king busily employed himself in raising an army.
The soon-to-be fugitive rented the apartment at the furthest end of the top floor of the building. Times, Sunday Times
Life will be so much more wholesome when women propose marriage as men do and have a plain, frank talk about it instead of their eternal business of veils and reticences, fugitive impulses real or coquettish, modesties real or faked. We Can't Have Everything
She found few internal records and had to piece together most of the story from a variety of fugitive sources.
Meanwhile the fugitive couple were hounded by press photographers. Times, Sunday Times
a mixture will slowly but surely lose _the_ colour for which it was compounded, and be _as a mixture_ semi-stable or fugitive. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Further, the Fugitive Slave Act specifically provided for the rendition of runaways in the northwestern and southwestern territories.
The rebel leadership offered a bounty and an amnesty to anyone who killed or captured the fugitive leader, hoping that his bodyguards might betray him. Times, Sunday Times
At this distance—not just from France but from the France of the '60s—the film's social criticism seems quaint: Jean-Louis, his wife Suzanne Sandrine Kiberlain and their rigid friends and associates could be fugitives from a Jacques Tati sendup of bourgeois foibles. Beware 'Ides of March'; Viva Maids of 'Women'
His arrest means 50 fugitives have now been caught since it began. Times, Sunday Times
But we knew that a flag flying above our squalid little camp would convert us from a fugitive rabble into a disciplined force which - however tiny - would have to be reckoned with.
In the 1840 revision in Fugitive Verses (and in subsequent editions), Baillie glosses the word hind as "somewhat above a common labourer, — the tenant of a very small farm, which he cultivates with his own hands" (DPW 772). '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)
I suspect he is a fugitive
A former fugitive accused of bankrolling a massive skunk cannabis factory at an airfield near Selby has pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis.
In a second, and more fugitive image, the action opens with modern citizens struggling to be heard in the public arena.
Next to these markers, family and lived events can seem evanescent, fugitive, and unreal, because memories of them are neither ubiquitous nor collectively shared.
He wants Jenny to babysit the fugitives in return for a cut of the book's proceeds.
And the heat went out of the pursuit eventually, and when he died in 1762, although a pauper, he was no longer a fugitive.
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject.
The definition is followed by nine citations, from a 1941 Bosley Crowther movie review ("The big holdup job gets messed up by a couple of 'jitterbugs' who are assisting on it, the girl turns out a great disappointment, the gunman is rendered a fugitive with a moll and a dog who love him" to a quote from last Sunday's Palm Beach Post ("...he would join the idle, young black males in jail. Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
He fled bail to become a fugitive from justice.
Right now they possessed the fugitive trans-lucence of smoke. The Kaisho
One of the most potentially fugitive art forms, they age, perish and demand constant care.
Rather, just blot the stain and call a professional carpet cleaner who is trained to use specific solutions or a heat transfer, which uses steam and a solution to transfer the fugitive dye to a cotton towel.
But when the best of the daylight is a dull gray, the long lines of the glen unbroken by anything but a shepherd's hut here and there at long intervals, and the road that could be seen winding through like a strip of ribbon all the way gave the fugitive a mingled sense of serenity and of that tingling, audible solitude and remoteness from all living aid or society which thrills every nerve. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Turmeric, orchil, catechu, and indigo carmine are all extremely fugitive. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
The measurement of soil water content within the community shows that fugitive dunes can keep soil water effectively and that the selected drought-tolerant arenaceous plants, can survive under extreme drought conditions.
Marquise, Oriane would marry some one who was not in society, an artist, a fugitive from justice, a scallawag, a free-thinker, that she would pass definitely into the category of what the The Guermantes Way
Two Chinese delegations have gone to America in pursuit of the fugitive. Times, Sunday Times
In the Brown camp the great family of fugitives dwelt together in guileless and trusting brotherhood under the patriarchal care of Captain Brown, who daily praised the Eternal Sire, and one soul of harmony and love was infused into each individual dweller. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
In the terrible heat, the fugitives labored up a tomb-lined slope toward Nuceria.
An escape from slavery is an expansion of experience and cultural consciousness, one that fugitive slave narratives record repeatedly.
The evidence for medieval agricultural magic is very fugitive, but there is no reason to think it was not pervasive.

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