Word: flees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race wait for death to release them. One even half-suspects that the beauty of Vanquished Often and her companions sporting on the sunny beaches of Vait...
...reformer who felt that he had a mission to rebuke the immorality, the material motives, the levity, and the lack of serious thought in the great city of his time. But he sought to occupy himself with other things, or, as the writer describes it, he tried to flee from the presence of God. But in vain, Even on the sea he could not escape; and at last his conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people...
...boathouse for some days and into his hero-worshipping mind came the great idea of stealing the flag from the Yale boathouse. In ways known only to himself he accomplished his object single-handed, while thirty Elis remained rooted to the spot in amazement and allowed the urchin to flee. Automobiles were quickly secured however, and then the chase began. But the unwieldy cars were of no avail against the resourceful Penrod...
...history of ideas, the men who fight in the foreground have never been liberals. Christ was no liberal. "Ye generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" His illiberal attitude was unflinching. "Think not that I am come to send peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword." Did ever liberal speak such fighting words? After but three years of revolutionary preaching he fell before the vengeance of the law-and-orderites of the day, as no liberal ever fell...