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escape 1. a valve that releases air, steam, etc., above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve 2. Botany a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild Escape Abiathar only son of Ahimelech to avoid Saul’s slaughter. [O.T.: I Samuel 22:20] Minos’s daughter; gave Theseus thread by which to escape labyrinth. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31] transformed into beetle in order to fly above Zeus’s deluge. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 55] flees the City of Destruction. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress] escaped from Crete by flying on wings made of wax and feathers. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 244] after fifteen years in the Chateau d’If he escapes by being thrown into the sea as another prisoner’s corpse. [Fr. Lit.: Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo]
on Prometheus’ advice, survived flood in ark. [Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 84–85] 340,000 British troops evacuated against long odds (1941). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 475] Jewish captives escape Pharaoh’s bondage. [O.T.: Exodus] (Dr. Richard Kimble) tale of wrongfully-accused man fleeing imprisonment. [TV: Terrace, I, 290–291] woodcutter’s children barely escape witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56] Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina (622). [Islamic Hist.: EB, V: 39–40] (1874–1926) shackled magician could extricate himself from any entrapment. [Am. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 196] the only one to escape when the Pequod is wrecked by the white whale. [Am. Lit.: Melville, Moby Dick] Miss Watson’s runaway slave; Huck’s traveling companion. [Am. Lit.: Huckleberry Finn] delivered from fish’s belly after three days. [O.T.: Jonah 1, 2] with family and animals, escapes the Deluge. [O.T.: Genesis 8:15–19] one of the few to escape from Devil’s Island. [Fr. Hist.: Papillon] God divides the waters for Israelites’ flight. [O.T.: Exodus 14:21–29] epithet of Zeus as god of escape. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 94] run away from “petticoat government” to live in forest. [Children’s Lit.: Brendon Chase, Fisher, 306] prisoners escape by boat from Devil’s Island, accompanied by a mysterious stranger. [Am. Cinema: Strange Cargo] escapes labyrinth with aid from Ariadne. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31] runs away from cruel Uncle Daniel to join circus. [Children’s Lit.: Toby Tyler] Sumerian Noah. [Sumerian Legend: Benét, 1116]
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" said another guard, who might have been thought asleep on a bench, but who had lost not a syllable of the conversation, "do you suppose that men can escape their destiny? Then is his escape consistent with the maintenance of them? HAVING fully resolved to leave the vessel clandestinely, and having acquired all the knowledge concerning the bay that I could obtain under the circumstances in which I was placed, I now deliberately turned over in my mind every plan to escape that suggested itself, being determined to act with all possible prudence in an attempt where failure would be attended with so many disagreeable consequences. |
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