Word: fled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Awake once more, I started up, that sweetest vision fled...
...name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever...
...almost shameful to have turned and fled...
Then they fled and left her glory...
...active service in the field, posted themselves behind a wall to await their arrival. The convoy came, and was called upon to surrender. The drivers whipped up their horses. The provincials fired, killing several horses and two men, when the drivers jumped from their places and fled. The wagons were secured and plundered. The drivers are said to have surrendered themselves to an old woman whom they met, and whose protection they begged. Whereupon there went the rounds of the English papers belonging to the opposition that interesting sum in the Rule of Three...