But Vandara was older, heavier, and unflawed except for the scar, the reminder that she had fought a beast and escaped alive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the poorer areas of Philadelphia—those mean, narrow alleys with their run-down, airless houses—had suffered the worst did not escape attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Many days Cole still fought hard to escape his familiar rage. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I glance up at the window to the fire escape, maybe the same sense that someone’s watching me that I had while working outside yesterday. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sullivan took a step toward them, then realized that the fire had gotten around behind him and might cut off any chance of escape in a matter of seconds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watch until the first puffs of steam escape, and then I ask, "Does he know about me?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And now Nailer needed to know what—or he’d never escape the shack without a beating. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a week later, he tore the wire from the front of his hutch and escaped to the open country. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each family's escape plan from Iran would have amounted to disastrous consequences if it didn't go as planned. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her lips would be sealed tight, and after each move I made, a soft “Hmmmmph” would escape from her nose. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is eager to leave, to escape this place where her brother was murdered and she rose to prominence only to be thwarted by a factionless woman who wasn’t supposed to be alive. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Radio was an escape from the challenges and concerns of their lives. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But she keeps hitting the escape key, and it takes her backward. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to steal Newt’s keys and help her escape. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I have been thinking of plans, but we are in a metal cage, and this tent is surrounded by agents of the Order. I do not think we shall escape.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I took out my notebook, lay across the bed on my stomach and attempted to write—anything to escape the death dance out there in the Mississippi night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf’s evil in loco parentis ways. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all the hens chasing after him,” the old man finished. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I feel like it’s the only way I can escape the guilt for all the things I’ve done,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The catastrophe was so great that for several moments no other sound escaped the keeper. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Sisters couldn’t afford to let news of the escape leak into the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Chances are a few of the Martians, if they were smart, escaped to the mountains. But there aren’t enough, I’ll lay you money, to be a native problem. This planet is through.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others had already flown to the King’s court—forced there by ambition because it was the greatest court in the world, or else to escape their mother. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fun little escape for them, but it took her back to a place she could not afford to revisit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

"This is my escape just as much as yours. And I'm sure a noble war-horse like this is not going to betray us. We are trying to escape, to get to Narnia." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I had my loaded revolver with me, and again, I thought of escape, but I would have been greatly outnumbered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you were being chased, that turn always gave you an extra second to escape. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Since his return to Mordor, Sauron had found it useful; for he had few servants but many slaves of fear, and still its chief purpose as of old was to prevent escape from Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Let's move on," I say, wanting to escape the darkness that surrounds this place. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

During the last dash, I didn’t feel anything other than my struggle to escape, breathe. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

That day I started to think about how I would escape this marriage without breaking my promise to my family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No animal caught in the garden that day is likely to escape alive, and all the winter homes, all the tunnels and holes and nests and cocoons, are torn up. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Any book that postulated an escape, I would have thought, would have been anathema to the superintendent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a last growl of desperate bravado from the bush and a whimpering cry; then the sounds of the bears’ escape receded in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the man was already up the steps and, before she could escape, had either heard or seen her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, get up. The ogres have surrounded the house. We have much to discuss if you and your friends are to escape here alive.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I offered to fetch Lady Seymour, but in truth, I planned to run the news of Lockton’s escape to the rebels as fast as I could. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that this gave him an opportunity to escape. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When his lips opened, no words escaped them, only a moan. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was like Arkansas’s version of a black hole; nothing could escape it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Meggie could hardly believe these same houses had looked so menacing on the night of their escape. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Root told Dora of his weariness and suggested that in the coming summer they should escape somewhere for a long rest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The security guard comes up and is reaching out for me, but I dodge him, which gives Farooq the opportunity to escape through the nearest doors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

From all accounts, the slave master’s preoccupation with Cora and her escape only deepened over time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His reflection flashed back, revealing a thin face with unruly dark hair escaping from beneath a traditional beaded cap. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My stomach knots again, threatening to empty anything that didn't already escape. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“There must be some way to escape the snake. Get hold of yourself, shrew. Think!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ever since leaving Frankie’s crew, I had tried to escape my homesickness and loneliness by becoming a part of Maxwell Street’s community. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So I tried to push all those assumptions about escape and sex and stars and planets out of my head. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

European horses were eagerly adopted by Native Americans in both North and South America, within a generation of the escape of horses from European settlements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then, sir, I accounts for it this way; it seems to me that ’ere wolf escaped—simply because he wanted to get out.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You would never age or die. You could leave the fight to others, Percy Jackson. You could escape your prophecy.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was then that Frederick Douglass, a civil rights leader who had escaped from slavery ten years before, asked to address the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Though Johnson escaped removal from office by one vote in the Senate, Stanton was the clear winner in the case. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The government reported that five inmates had been killed and that fourteen had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pursued by killer whales, which prey upon them when seals are not to be found, the bass had tried to escape by swimming toward shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be killed by the gladiators, then. And everyone concerned with letting him escape is to be punished.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But she would bang forever to escape the velvet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you now be a murderer? We are under the protection of Gwydion; you will not escape his wrath!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually I crawled out and escaped into the woods.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“All around him was nothing but smooth hard stone. It was a cell no man had ever escaped.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He paused to catch a stray lock of hair that was escaping the twist on my neck and wound it back into place. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t escape the seemingly endless questions about HeLa and cell culture from other scientists. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This makes it more difficult for light from the star to escape, and the light appears dimmer and redder to an observer at a distance. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just escaping from the situation I was in, and America seemed to be our only option. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wiped his face with both hands, pushing through the fright, then pointed to the escape route he’d come up with. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I went out onto the fire escape with a cup of what I thought was instant cocoa until I sipped it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

By simply being occasions when sound escapes word, however, songs put me in mind of the most intimate moments of my life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he picked his way across the puddled lane to the lee of the fire escape. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I can see that if we allow the slightest divagation on the subject of your charms, we shall never have time to hear the tale of your escape.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The need to escape pulls at my feet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But a chortle escaped through my nose and made a snorting sound. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was desperate to escape the institution of idiots. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smoke from the hearth escaped through the roof, and the only opening was a low doorway one had to stoop to walk through. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A snort escapes, which sets my dance partner to laughing, which makes me laugh harder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He walked in and looked around and then asked me, “Do me a little solid, Chino, and open the fire escape for me. I have to show you something.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“She was imprisoned after your escape, so that helps.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Those gases are unlikely to have escaped from Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one condition that must have been a matter of chagrin for the arsonists—all the farm animals were turned out to pasture during the summer nights and so escaped a fiery death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year later, Odessa made national news again when someone made the fateful mistake of accusing an escaped convict from Alabama named Leamon Ray Price of cheating in a high-stakes poker game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted my strong, invincible dad to come back, the man who dodged gunfire in the massacre and escaped with bullet holes in his shirt collar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was possible that the whole situation was contrived to try to get me to escape, though I do not think that was the case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wandering through the crowd so as to escape a drunken uncle of Ron’s who seemed unsure whether or not Harry was his son, Harry spotted an old wizard sitting alone at a table. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was an uncomfortable pause, during winch a black lap dog with a pug nose escaped into the lists and scampered about on some errand best known to itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before you disparage it, you have to taste just how hungry these kids are to escape the lower end of the middle class and move up. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We told Brian about the escape fund, and he pitched in, even though we hadn’t included him in our plans because he was only in the seventh grade. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an exciting game, full of unpredictable escapes and plunges. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

News of his escape had not reached the village. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ll go out and look for a job,” I said, wanting to escape them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or you were using some alias so you could really escape Mom and Dad’s influence. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But he resisted her with such skill that she was finally driven out to escape the inevitable boredom produced by such a dainty life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slaves who ran away and lived beyond the control of the planters were called “maroons”—from the Spanish word cimarron for cattle that escaped and lived in the wild. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not with the hope of escape, or of doing anything, either good or bad: he simply felt that he must take the Ring and put it on his finger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I climb onto the railing of the fire escape, spread my arms out, and launch myself off like a pigeon going home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo, but he escaped prison, thanks to his metalworking experience, which taught him how to make keys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There would be no way for me to get Tabitha out of the foster home if my foster parents found out I had escaped from the camp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is one other thing. I should not have struck you for trying to escape. I am sorry.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This whole time, I thought the Taliban was the enemy of America. But didn’t the Afghani family we set up the apartment for have to escape and come here because of them?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“The Boss was running away with some old magazines. Maybe he escaped.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The clay and snow were churned into a muddy trench along the gate where the cattle had milled around, pushing their bony heads against the juniper poles, working for another escape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Unhh” was the only response that managed to escape his lips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A sigh escaped her, and she whispered the words she’d repeated to herself so many times before in her greatest moments. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Percy started to ask, “What the—” “Some of them want us to escape,” Hazel said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Caliban—the monster in the play, not the escaped rat—he knew cuss words. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Ashley escaped. Don’t you see? I thought Antoine had gotten her. But she ran away. And she didn’t take me with her.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She could not imagine a way that you could escape a goat house. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment’s entrance was marred by a rusty fire escape running up the front, and there was only one small bedroom—but the rent was $45 a month. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably an escape route for the king, though from the half-rotted condition of some of the boats, she wondered if he knew that it was here. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bookstore was a twenty-minute drive, and the only way I could have escaped the car would have been to throw open the door and leap into the street. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the fire escape, a cold, quiet breeze greets me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve locked myself out of my apartment. I wanted to go across the fire escape. It connects our windows.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not escaping; instead, I’m following a new trail. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I noticed with envy that she had escaped drastic coiffuric ministrations; her pale, silvery-blond hair hung down her back in two neat braids. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

That had always been the vaguest part of our escape plan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a girl in the audience asked him to explain how he escaped, he looked pained. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He winced, tucking his head down to escape the noise, even as he jumped up from the bed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the old boiling house, heat escaped; now it is captured and used. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Those who had escaped the city began to trickle back home. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He seemed to take my question seriously, but I hoped he wasn’t going along with it while he devised a way to escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Finally I escaped Auntie Yeabu’s clutches as they tossed shovelfuls of dirt over my mother’s body, but I was too late. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paused as a giant yawn escaped my mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I escaped up to the press box where Evan and Ian worked the baseball scoreboard controls and explained to them where Miles was and how I planned on hiding with them for the entire game. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I took my sports bag out and slammed the little metal door as fast as possible but couldn’t escape. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Gregor, my wife fears the spinners may pass on our whereabouts to the rats. She advises that we escape with all speed.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Alfyn will trouble the realm no longer, but some of his company escaped us. We hunted down as many as we could, but it may be that a few will win back to the mountains." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Huynh had an escape plan that might work for them all. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that . . .” and I was trying hard to stifle my giggles, but one of them escaped through my nose with a snort, which made me laugh more. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse let them get close, and then the decoys galloped away, as if trying to escape. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

For four years, up to that point, I’d been lucky enough, or slick enough, to escape jail, or even getting arrested. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs escaped to England, where he earned his PhD in physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A captured spy in enemy territory, plotting her spectacular escape. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as though the walls were squeezing in on her; she looked around wildly for some way to escape. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Encanis was now hard pressed and bent his whole thought upon escape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He tries to escape, but the swordfish swims in to cut him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

"One of your northmen hit me with a momingstar during the battle on the Green Fork. I escaped him by falling off my horse." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He caught me on the fire escape spying on him.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

John Henry leaned forward, and the giant folk hero let a rumbling growl escape his chest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was only the knowledge that he had escaped by the same route as I. But what had he to fear? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Duke’s notice did not escape the notice of the Duchess either, who was not very beautiful and not very rich, but plenty smart. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Garvey and I believe in your potential, but you haven’t earned trust. Not trying to escape in the skiff is a good first step.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In June, I escaped the dreaded school for the summer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It would have been easy to roll over the side, fully clothed, and let the weight of denim and cotton drag me to the bottom while my last breaths escaped my lungs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

If Lewis Powell had not wandered into the government’s hands this night, he might have escaped Washington and vanished from history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the nights she stood like a field general over the kitchen counter, hands perched on those jutting hipbones, smoking with agitation, assessing points of entry and encampment and escape. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance around me for an escape but the only way out of this alley is forward. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t very complicated, Tally. You have had a change of heart. You have decided to run away, following your friend Shay. Just another ugly escaping the tyranny of beauty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had the remaining hours of night before they would be aware of his escape. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at my mother, who was obviously waiting for Dad to explain why escaping from jail was such a grand idea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was as though my thoughts of escape had alerted them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My escape was blocked by Maurice, who, searching for me, had just then stuck his head through. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as they do, I scramble up the ladder and onto the next landing on the fire escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and hurrying off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet’s civilities. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sight of her calms me and I stop trying to escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For me to understand something that escaped me. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I can hold it in no longer; I let my own smile escape. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to scream, but I can’t hear my voice anymore, and I have no idea if any sound escapes my mouth. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Endive and spinach escaped from colonial gardens and grew into impassable, six-foot thickets on the Peruvian coast; thousands of feet higher, mint overwhelmed Andean valleys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the fire escape stopped at least a couple of feet above the front entry arch. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A zookeeper’s carelessness, the newspaper said, led to the escape of dozens of animals from the Central Park Zoo the day before. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I hold myself as still as a statue and wait to see if they will figure out that the footprints lead to a boy hiding on the fire escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Amari lay on the ground one particularly hot night, trying to escape into sleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That means he’s only got fifteen minutes to escape with,” Fezzik said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“He managed to escape with two of my men, thank God. We lost three fine animals today, but no people.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Someone threw a firebomb through a broken window, and the panic-stricken passengers, choking from the dense cloud of smoke, escaped through an emergency exit seconds before the bus burst into flames. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The icy cold grabbed at his breath and reminded him of his attempt to escape the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Still, after the parole board set me off, my mind wandered toward escape plans. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I carefully considered the escape plan and concluded that it was premature, and the likelihood of its failure was unacceptably high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would Mr. Remora have done if they hadn’t escaped? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and the deep sigh that escaped him echoed like, a wind in the empty chapel. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This was the meal that would give him the energy he needed to escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

If she was willing to run to escape the Nazis, why wouldn't she run with me, the person who had just told her I was there to help her? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Drawn by the bait, he had stepped full on the trip pad, and the jaws had caught his foot before he could react and escape. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Preening, gloating over the ill treatment that she alone escaped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most had been given freedom of the castle in return for their pledge not to attempt escape. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They now learned to their joy that Erkenbrand had left many men to hold Helm’s Gate, and more had since escaped thither. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That’s why I have to figure some way to get out of here—to escape. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I blink to stop tears from falling, but a few escape and run down my cheeks. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was one of the few who escaped the massacre because Hitler still trusted him. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn't allowed to alter my appearance so radically that it seemed I was preparing to disguise myself and escape. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hickock obeyed, with an expression that the detective interpreted as a pleading with him to speak, to accuse, and let the prisoner escape into the sanctuary of steadfast denial. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently the adult mosquitoes had become sufficiently tolerant of DDT to escape from sprayed buildings and rest and recover in the open. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That made me abandon any inkling of escaping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just in case I ever escaped. I had some pieces of metal back there, too, but nothing the right size. This needle is perfect,” said his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He straddled the boy’s torso, gripped him with his legs so he couldn’t escape. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone was considerate and friendly, but there was no escaping the conclusion that we were hopelessly overcrowded. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Half her body is encased in plaster, and one of her hands is cuffed to the bed, as if she could escape even if she wanted to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the three humans were gone, he scurried back to the fence to finish digging his escape tunnel. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A faint, gray light seeped into the room, as if the moon was escaping from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When she saw an opportunity to escape, she commanded her fleet to unfurl the sails and make a run for the open sea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A sigh of relief escaped her when she saw the house. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left his biology class on Wednesday afternoon, walked right past the hallway they’d run down to escape Daley after he had tripped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was my way of escaping from the monolithic concrete world that surrounded us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s eyes dart from the windows to the doors to the ceiling, like an escape hatch might be up there. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And I do get away, but I can’t escape the guilt. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A little grin escaped and danced around his face. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

For escaping from a jungle where all others marched to their deaths. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you better start talking about this magical escape, then!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

That's what gave me the idea of escaping the next semester of chemistry. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those terrible dogs the Nazis used for hunting down concentration camp prisoners who escaped in those old TV pictures. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what is he doing, if not escaping? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, though, I exult, and think I have had a narrow escape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, like me, you can dream of the escape. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was crowded with carriages pulled by wildeyed horses that crashed into each other as everyone fought to escape. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, him and TaShon are jumping up and down trying to escape the water snake. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t quite know how to explain to anyone, that it wasn’t so much that she had gotten used to the mill, but she had found a way to escape its grasp. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Geoffroy’s work appeared in a context where chemists were already trying to escape from alchemical thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not that Shackleton had completely given up hope of escaping from the icy prison. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He was at the door, blocking Johnny’s escape. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the air you couldn’t escape it: the memory of the suffering faces of the young and the old. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Though every second was precious to his escape, he knew that this was his last appearance on the American stage. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We avoided them, because we meant to escape if we could and we didn’t want to get known. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kit was thankful when she and Judith could escape to the cold sanctuary of the upstairs chamber. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only at night could she escape from the tiny room, the nervous stares, her own ugly face. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I escape to the back porch and stand next to Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was hearing my father’s words, but their meaning escaped me, as if he had asked me to carry the entire shed on my arms . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

White learned that Rudensky had been recruited to assist with the escape but had refused. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The drinker does indeed find escape, he does indeed find a short respite and rest, but he returns from the illusion and finds everything as it was before. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing Kathy kept the freezer stocked with meat and vegetables, he leaned down and removed two steaks, quickly closing the door to keep the finite cold from escaping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Whoever it was survived a two-and-a-half-story jump and still had enough strength to escape.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If he came in the front door, the back door would escape me into the garage. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I sing, I'm something better than myself Maybe that's why I love it so much, because I get to escape being me and get to forget for a little while. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The scenario was this: The Colombian knew that his best chance of escape would be during an outside medical trip. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara also brought the saving idea of writing in her mind, without paper or pencil, to keep her thoughts occupied and to escape from the doghouse and live. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feigning sleep, I curl down into my lap to escape those eyes in the mirror. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Shadow? Did you escape? Or did they let you out?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He turned again and jogged toward the other collapsed stairwell that Tad already knew was a no-go as far as an escape route. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every dream a dream of escape even when it didn’t look like it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A hiss escaped her lips, and she let loose a stream of Polish that he didn’t understand. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But if the hobbits had any thought of escape, it was soon dashed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Annette worked in Paris for the Duke and Duchess de Guiche, and it did not escape the Duke’s notice that someone extraordinary was polishing the pewter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Purple light threw horrible, ghostly shadows on the cabin walls, as if the specters were escaping right out of the fountain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was no response, though; it had been more of a skittering sound than one that a bonobo would make, probably some reptile escaping into the ferns. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jones persuaded the assassins that the best way to escape was to stop running and go into hiding. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fern’s little flag had not escaped being trampled by the parade’s participants. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

To save his own life, he had rolled out of bed during the attack and crashed to the floor, hoping to escape Powell’s reach in the dark room. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if something trapped inside has managed to escape. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reading it makes me wonder if I’ll ever escape Bellmont, and, if so, what sort of life I might have somewhere else. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odor of the escaping gases, which at first seemed almost totally punishing, soon diminished through familiarity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the classroom, I take my seat, feeling infamous and invincible and twitchy and strangely exhilarated, as if I just escaped, well, death. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know that Julio is telling me how to escape the central. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you could invent something that would help us escape?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

If Sam could have seen him and known the grief that his escape would bring, he might have quailed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

You’re a little ball of soft meat with no shell or escape skills or battle strategies. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the pain would escape him even though the laughter was part of the pain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was shortly after the church bells rang for late-afternoon Vespers that the widow reappeared, someone to help you escape Great Wexly,” she said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stumbled in, exhausted and filthy from their long journey and near escape from the flames, the two satchels full of documents clutched tightly in their arms. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Boys ran away all the time, and even fathers left without a word to escape having to care for their families back in the old country. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You and I need to have a talk, my boy,” she said, standing in the doorway and blocking his escape. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, be careful,” whispered Salmakia, but Lyra’s mind was already racing ahead through the story she’d told the night before, shaping and cutting and improving and adding: parents dead; family treasure; shipwreck; escape... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No mean feat in a village teeming with treacherous natures and informers who would sell out their dearest to escape the bite of the cat-o’-nine-tails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Apparently the sheriff is delighted that he escaped and has no intention of pursuing him—as long as he goes back and gets the paperwork straightened out.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Being in the closet was my only escape. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He danced around, trying to escape her swinging arms as the others egged him on. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I focused that same way I did when I escaped the haint in the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, I was a worrier by nature and I couldn’t escape the feeling that anything could happen to her at any time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She knew how much Polly yearned to escape from the kitchen—her desire to move on and her distaste for the work of slaves were very apparent. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s eyes looked round the room, as if seeking a means of escape. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey was the first one to notice me as I ascended the fire escape’s ladder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Burn rushed out of the chamber to escape opponents who wanted to beat him up. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It's not a good idea for an escape route to rely on bridges; they're too easily closed or blocked. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

An inmate had escaped from the Rikers Island Visit Room that same summer, despite the many fail-safes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I knew he wouldn’t let me escape without trying to tear down the wall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This is cool. Look, Instant Darkness Powder, we’re importing it from Peru. Handy if you want to make a quick escape.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

These were to be our last days together, at least in the carefree spirit that had marked our escape from the Middle West and the American culture it was so easy to be ambivalent about. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t tracked the topography on this side of the river, just the side where we escaped. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

AA 23:234: “For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty—to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One person was placed in charge of every car: if someone managed to escape, that person would be shot. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had escaped Seward’s servant and the others, and no one was chasing him now. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as his dad and Boots had woken, they were taken to the dock where Gregor had made his escape the first night. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Medea escaped as she always did and got safely away to Asia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my mother stooped to help the old woman pick up the escaping food, I took off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe...maybe they’re escaped rodeo clowns. And the rodeo clown mafia is out to get them.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The only escape from this pain was to keep walking and hope for something miraculous. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The girl was extraordinarily lucky, Mariam thought, to escape with relatively minor injuries, considering the rocket had turned her house into smoking rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would praise me for encouraging Miss Norris, and I would probably be allowed shopping privileges and movie privileges downtown, and my escape would be assured. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With what Oliver believed was superhuman strength, he yanked up the twins’ bedroom window and the kids climbed out onto the fire escape. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Jesse tried to huddle away from the worst of them, but there was no escaping the miserable invaders. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s silent again, and I feel his lungs rising and falling underneath my head, a sigh escaping his lips. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to escape the ruthless business of sugarcane as slaves cut, pounded, boiled, and poured it into sticky barrels, bound for Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every day that September, the four of us escaped outdoors. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to leave, to escape the house and party and all those artificial people, but the front was crowded, so I stumbled onto the patio, where it was quieter and I could breathe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“They lie. When the British fled Boston, back in the spring, they took escaping slaves with them. They promised them freeeeeeedom.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I climbed the stairs, I longed to sprint to the front door and escape. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I keep thinking someone’s watching me from the fire escape, but each time I look up, there’s only Frida Kahlo basking in the sun. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was trying to ignore them, concentrating instead on a plan for my escape, when a milk carton came flying at me, hitting me on the forehead. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d told her how Meg helped her father escape, and I’d described the first battle with IT, which is this giant, evil brain that wants to control everyone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You cannot escape us, Leo Valdez,” it said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How had any of these books escaped the purging fires ten years ago? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for dinner,” she mumbled, even though she hadn’t eaten anything, and escaped out the door into the cold night. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How it would help them escape from the library was still anybody’s guess. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Out in the field Jethro and his sister were able to escape for a while from the gloom of the cabin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

An escape hatch was provided by his brother-in-law Landon Thorne, a Wall Street wunderkind who proposed that they form an investment banking partnership. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A whoop of joy escaped his lips as he ran across the sand. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The children who escaped arrest slipped back into the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I really will be working in a lab, why not test the hopefully edible plants and water before we escape? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had learned where we were and written a letter explaining that when she first heard we had escaped to America, she had been worried that we were being taken into slavery. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My voice croaked from my throat as air fought to escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Letting him escape is even worse than killing him,” the tsar hissed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A tear escaping from one of his squeezed shut eyes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Deadly physical force was okay to use in three instances: to prevent an escape; in self-defense; or to prevent arson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the possibility of escaping public words, the possibility that awaits me in meeting the intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawing their ire when I'm so close to escaping would be unforgivably stupid. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The lendri, the dog, the crow, the marksman—they had been lucky to escape them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her borrowed bed in the dark interior of the caravan the star slept on, unaware how close she had come to her doom, nor by how slim a margin she had escaped it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I place cupped hands over my ears to keep her words from escaping. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

One of them was Oliver Valentine, come back to help others escape the meeting house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed the rest of the Night Zoo’s creatures had been freed, stampeding around the lawns, looking for escape too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was eager to escape Billy’s searching gaze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were not fast enough to escape the men who came for us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If by some magic the Specials hadn’t noticed the escape so far, the riderless boards had tripped the wire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to feel like some escaped convict hiding out from the cops. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another voice, musical and self-possessed, cried pleasantly: “Wit thou well, here are fourteen armed, and thou canst not escape.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one there mentioned the escape plan that had led to the execution of his mother and brother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And she lived out the window and just a fire escape away. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The precious minutes I can write become a golden escape. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As deadly smoke fills the streets, thousands of people try to escape it, but fall “like flies.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They move aside as I crutch past them, and in a flurry of whispers they escape up the stairs to Kaylee’s room. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“My curse is here. I cannot escape it.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His broken leg notwithstanding, these three days in Virginia, with its pro-Confederate citizens and custom of hospitality, have made him think that escape is a possibility. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She shielded her eyes from the dust storm, searching for an escape route. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Here in the middle of the Middle West an escape route, a road designed by fear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Arthur declared that if Oliver was to survive being the only boy among many sisters, he needed two things: an imagination and a place of his own to escape to. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I'm running past buildings of tan bricks, five stories high with black fire escapes and windows with bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No doubt he meant to kill his captives, rather than allow them to escape or to be rescued; but it was his undoing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I saw that my fingers trembled, and knew it wouldn’t escape his notice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a fool, human. You’re deluding yourself. Mud technology is eons behind ours. There is no way to escape the time-field.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was clear what he was doing, and what a good idea, to fill his balloon with the gas out of theirs, to escape by the same means that crippled their pursuit! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“In the darkness, I suppose it did,” his mother agreed, small bursts of laughter escaping from her lips. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I became very depressed, escaping reality any way I could. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I keep my mouth open to let the breath escape, crying without making a sound. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper clawed at the walls, trying to escape, but there was nowhere to go. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was narrow and shaky, but the sailors made sure the women had no opportunity to escape into the sea, should they dare. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could cause a distraction, she might be able to escape and find her friends. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I made my first bid for escape when I was eleven. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

How could he escape, or save himself, or save the Ring? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of escaping, I help with the chores that didn't get finished yesterday. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The one who told me was a distant cousin. He knew someone who escaped.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin could not have escaped North Korea without an abundance of luck, especially at the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Following a failed escape attempt, Strijdom had been found guilty of car theft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat tightened into a pinhole, and an involuntary choking sound escaped my clenched teeth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had escaped behind the ceiling tiles, never to be seen again. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I need to find her now, before I have to return to Batalla Hall in the morning and go over details of Day’s botched escape with Commander Jameson. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The unopposed pressure launched the airlock like a cannonball as the Hab's atmosphere explosively escaped through the breach. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys got locked in a boxcar so hot that they were soon frantic to escape. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Amari did not know the language of her captors, but she could tell they cursed as nets were cast overboard for the escaped slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But there's nothing mysterious about it. I escaped for a while—I went to France with the Army Medical Corps and remained there after the Armistice to study and practice." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of black students had fled the country to escape arrest. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The present conclusion of experts is that “housefly control has escaped insecticidal techniques and once more must be based on general sanitation.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was still time to escape unseen, to go back to his house and attic and normal, safe life. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finding a grip, I hoisted myself up in hope of escaping by climbing and hiding. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

With all this chaos swirling about, I would escape into the bathroom and look in the mirror. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You lips twitched, but no sound escaped them. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The milk bird did not attempt to escape again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

A big, fluffy Persian leaped, and I thought I glimpsed...wings as it sailed over me and landed by the door, blocking any escape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She could hear the noise, with her own perfectly functioning ears, escaping her perfectly functioning mouth. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I told him it was nothing, but I was wondering if I should play it up and escape to the nurse’s office for the next hour. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was probably unaware of it but it escaped none of us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids crowded all along the back of the bench, barricading any escape. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As I try to escape along the far side of the store, Lou Anne Templeton steps from behind the hairbrush rack. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Others had escaped but hadn’t surfaced after the war’s end, including Mama Evangeline. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She therefore decided to uproot the family and relocate to Godric’s Hollow, the village that was later to gain fame as the scene of Harry Potter’s strange escape from You-Know-Who. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had finally escaped from the pack, but the open ocean had proved too much for their small fleet. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They had reached a low ashen hill piled at the Mountain’s foot; but from it there was no more escape. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I open the windows to let some air in because it’s too dead and stale, and then I close them again, afraid the scent of soap and cigarettes and Finch will escape. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"My men are searching the hills for an escaped prisoner. I don’t suppose you’re going to tell me where they should look for the two bodies?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Most of my mother’s paintings were trompe l’œils—à la Magritte, as she liked to say—in which the subject, person or thing, always seemed to be trying to escape the frame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The place he and Luke had planned countless escapes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And what if the fire moves faster than we can hike? We’d be climbing right into the fire. Not smart. Our only escape would be to outrun the fire.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s no endgame in that plan. No escape hatch. See that clear wall keeping the crowd back from the stage?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They scurry all over the scarf, trying to escape but are met with our thumbnails crushing them to bits. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop the groan that escaped my lips. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out my window to the fire escape. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And nobody’s a better escape artist than an octopus. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get out on the fire escape and enjoy the sliced melon left in the icebox. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

One small section of wheat, on a little dogleg of my land, had escaped the storm. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s high bed had escaped the water but still smelled damp, so we put the mattress on the porch roof to sun. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All ribbons and lace, perfect as a shop-fresh doll save for a few unruly curls escaping her braids. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The story that pours out of him is too stunning to be a joke—that his grandmother was handed over as a baby to nuns to escape the Nazis. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I am called; the patient has once more escaped. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“He died fighting. He kept a whole company of Muscovites at bay while the man escaped. I found his body. He died bravely. I shall avenge him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I recognized police. Port Authority police, too. I wanted to help them. Be as brave as them. Everybody was escaping, and they were going up.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, gone was something it could not be, for he could not escape it any more than he could escape himself. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I went to my room first to get a bottle and then headed over on the fire escape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he has only a match and a can of Coca-Cola and a stick of mint gum, he can use them to booby-trap the bad guys and escape. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrier was as high as his waist—not tall enough to keep him in, but high enough to slow him down if he tried to escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The British Lord Dunmore in Virginia offered freedom—total freedom—to any slave who escapes to his camp.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one day, when I was about a year and a half, I escaped from my carriage through the broken drop latch and tumbled past the front lawn toward a dirt tractor road. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the beast bends down to grab me, I run and make my escape between its legs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was to seal any cracks and holes, so that a hot agent could not escape by drifting through hollow electrical conduits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t even be able to try to escape; they would find him collapsed under the tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had bombarded dozens of elements with deuterons and assiduously tracked emissions of alpha particles during the bombardments; but the continued emission of electrons or positrons after the bombardments ended had escaped their notice. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to roll, and then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the sword coming and I knew I couldn’t escape it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the prison’s courtyard it rose, a yellow silk bubble escaping the earth. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faith moved next, but when she tried to escape I reached out to stop her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Above all else, you must make your escape. Go at once! Milligan, allow no one to linger. Not even you, dear Number Two. Hurry now! Go!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

AH these tilings, working together with the unconscious dread of Elaine’s arrival with his son, broke his happiness without allowing him to escape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked the alethiometer,” she told him, “and it said we shouldn’t try and escape from the little people, because they were going to save our lives. So maybe we’re stuck with ’em.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can bring up his face in my mind, but only because my mom had a picture of him in her shoebox while we were escaping Iran. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If I can escape him, I can hide out in the city. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For a few endless moments, Tally felt only relief to have escaped the searing wind, the thundering machine, the blistering heat of the firestorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As I listened to her footsteps on the walk, I wanted two things at once: I wanted to make my escape. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spent the entire walk trying to devise an excuse to escape family dinner so I could go to Diego’s barbecue. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“We are caught in a place where there is no hope, no escape from the misery of the present or the memories of the past.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next five years, Blake schemed a way to escape the high walls and drab food of "the Scrubs," as it was called by the inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A tiger cub escaped, sir. We think she may be hiding here, and we’re asking the islanders to help us find her.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But hey, we might be fish out of water, but at least we had escaped the horns of our dilemma to a silver lining, as Mami might say. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

While it makes perfect sense to me, this pragmatic view of religion escapes the Reverend utterly. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To escape detection I cut to the right and was swallowed up by the dark brush of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when I thought of ways to escape from my environment I no longer felt the inner restraint that would have made stealing impossible, and this new freedom made me lonely and afraid. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the situation of the orphans, figuratively escaping was not enough, of course, but at the end of a tiring and hopeless day, it would have to do. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“And is there any escape from hell?” he raised his finger. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could log in and instantly escape the drudgery of your day-to-day life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“After all — he was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher... I just assumed that he was in a hurry to chase after the Death Eaters who’d escaped up to the tower...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But whoever it was has had a narrow escape. No one could have opened that package without touching the necklace.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Many uprooted themselves not only to find employment, but to escape the prejudice, discrimination, and abuse that had always been part of their life in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom walks him out, and before she can return to cross-examine me, I’ve escaped to my room with my cell phone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Daedalus was the architect who had contrived the Labyrinth for the Minotaur in Crete, and who showed Ariadne how Theseus could escape from it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the large animals who came through the fire—bushbuck, warthog, antelope—few escaped. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how it happened. We were trying to escape from those men, and we just seemed to find ourselves here.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rowan was ordered to remain at the gate, sword drawn, to prevent anyone from trying to escape. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Lloyd called to the driver, ready for them to make their escape. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had been doubly hard to return to the Dursleys knowing that he had so nearly escaped them forever. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He put them over the drinking fountains, and on every classroom door, and on the fire escape doors, and on the walls of the stairwells. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I took my botde, climbed out onto the fire escape and slipped over to her window just as her front door opened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is a dim crack of light escaping from under Joon’s door. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“And you wanted to escape,” a man near me whispered to another man. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped back outside into the fresh air, grateful to escape the humidity and smell. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After being so quiet for so long—the slaves to escape the detection of hunters, and the hunters to escape the detection of their prey—all of them cried out and shrieked with their exertions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I thought I could escape from Maryland if I had to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

All of the kids who had gathered there—some who had escaped from camps or capture, others that had been able to hide out long enough to avoid it all together—had responsibilities. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know the rest, wanted the story of Miigwans’ escape, because I thought just by knowing about it, somehow, it would make our escape seem all the more plausible. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his grandmother pulls out a belt at night when Enrique is naked in bed and therefore unable to quickly escape her punishment by running outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He could only hope he had enough energy to escape back into the woods above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The CIA men offered Wolf an escape plan if he decided to change his mind and work with the Americans. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I found myself trying to think of excuses to stay, to see him first and then make my escape. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Might as well tell you the rest. I was also drafted as part of the escape plan—-if it became necessary.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He started to walk up the fire escape. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When I saw that the smoke trail was angling off to the left of the tipple, I knew we’d escaped at least that particular disaster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were two doors, with a wide space between them so that not too much warm air escaped. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like I either imagined it, which is quite possible, or I’m overreacting, which will buy me a trip back to the drug- induced dreamland I’m trying so hard to escape. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Because,” said Jake, nodding toward the window, “whoever snuck in here from the fire escape while we were being distracted by Mrs. Malvolio was polite enough to close the window on their way out.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I was so frightened I couldn’t even think of escape,” Larisa said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I want to tear my skin off and escape from me. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes, it is,” I stutter and jump down the stone path, hoping to escape before it becomes evident that I don’t know much about Crystal. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This crowd offers our only chance of escape. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Poor people couldn’t flee to comfortable country homes like their wealthier neighbors, but at least they could escape the most squalid and plague-ridden sections of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can find a way to sneak them onto a cargo train, and help them escape inland to . . . somewhere, I don't know. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He turned his attention to the fog out the window and aimed a spit attack at an unsuspecting pigeon passing by the fire escape. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Several weeks later, they had settled on an escape plan. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I could castle," he told Tristran, "but there's no one I could castle with'd be any better off here than we are....There's no escape by flying, not judgin' by that thing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He became a theologian—but he could not escape his profane past. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I squirmed and tried to escape again, but his hand only held my shoulder more tightly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Thethuthinnang was distressed, for it was she who had picked Thrayonlosa as one of the more sturdy and sensible does in the Mark and persuaded her to join in the escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet—she knew that there were slaves who had betrayed other slaves when they tried to escape. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon he and Ron escaped Hermione’s baleful presence again, and under the pretense of scouring the bare hedges for nonexistent blackberries, they continued their ongoing exchange of news. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They waited by each door, cutting off Loki’s escape, if he was still inside. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

My private practices with Mrs. Walton are my escape. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“His job’s to look after Boots, right? So let’s pretend he’s escaped!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Kind­ness is gone from the land and you cannot escape the kill­ings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first part of the escape was easy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I have her locked in a tower and never let her out. She’ll have to grow her hair and escape through the window if she ever wants to leave. Please, Paul.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when the does’ deputation to the Council failed, Blackavar turned to the idea of escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The screecher’s appearance on the carousel, my empty coat pocket, the attempted escape, the reed tied around its neck. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas yelled out as he watched every extended arm of the monster immediately retract and clasp onto Gaily’s arms and legs, making escape or rescue impossible. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

The last thing Booth needs is for his escape to be ruined by a runaway horse. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the final bandages are being placed, a moan escapes his lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Liam wasn’t the only one who escaped, but he was the only one who came back. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A loud giggle escaped into the quiet library. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Thinking only of escaping with her life, she spun round and ran. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The current would take it back toward the city, in the opposite direction of their escape route. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He decided he would put an end to this talk of escape, of the North, and freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the scars will always remind me of this escape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even her figurehead had not escaped; one of his arms had broken off, the one with all his scrolls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He suddenly noticed something about Beowulf that had escaped his attention before. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped Yohan and his entire family had been able to escape. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her four years of secret study had prepared her, at the end of college, to escape as far as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Athena shall personally check on the other Titans to make sure they do not escape their various prisons. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Bigwig remembered the night in Efrafa when he had calmed her by talking of the high downs and the certainty of their escape. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we knew we had no choice, we had to make it across the clearing because, as young boys, the risk of staying in town was greater for us than trying to escape. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your collection. In the jars. I was sorry to see them all escape like that.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When it began to refuse food, we opened the back door and let it escape. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before I can escape, she hands me a money pouch with deposit slips to take to my dad at the store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To err is human; to forgive, divine. escape. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he struggled to get up and escape, but Gandalf held him gently and firmly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He had pulled his long, black coat around his thin body and huddled within it as if he hoped to escape the eyes of the villagers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted, of course, knew that tremendous progress had been made, but it was the sort that escaped casual notice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She thought about pretending to be ill and escaping back to the castle, but Dvorah had put her coat somewhere and she didn’t know where. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Before the giggles can escape my lips, a feeling of sadness pushes them down. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like they were dancing on a grave with no thought to the suffering they had escaped. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a shifting in the room, a murmur, an escape of breath; despite ourselves we turn our heads, blatantly, to see better; our fingers itch to touch her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as we sat on the metal fire escape landing, Maribel slid her backpack off and pulled out a green notebook. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to escape to a place where he could meld science and socialism more easily. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mom studies me, then lets a little smile escape. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

To escape extermination, many monks grew their hair and went into hiding in the jungle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked about me, but there appeared to be now no possible escape from the inquiry, “Have-I—anything to receive, sir?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long and scary trek, but she was too grateful to have escaped the embarrassment of being put back a year to complain. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel the fetid gas cloud escaping from the mouth of the bottle and wafting like a moist cadavers hand across my face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was, however, grateful for any evening of escape from the other men and for the large redheaded man’s attempts to teach her their language. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have given up at last, escaped when he saw there was nothing more he could do.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little dragon dodged backwards, scampering over jagged branches in an attempt to escape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I know what I heard. They escaped the next evening. Captain Charlock was killed pursuing them.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one single hair escaped its tight bind. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I escaped the daily shooting gallery through my job at the tailor shop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was such a stupid lie, she actually laughed out loud—how had that even escaped her mouth? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know the way. I can’t escape alone. Come with me, please.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was the whole point of the community—to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One thing he failed to see was that if a neutron star shrank enough it would become so dense that even light couldn’t escape its immense gravitational pull. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Ponies would not help us to escape horsemen,’ he said at last, thoughtfully, as if he guessed what Frodo had in mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“By the way, Rhonda, have you seen my map of the harbor? It appears to have escaped the study.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll trust me to run errands alone again, and when she does, I’ll keep my eyes and ears alert and find a way to escape. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shut their mouths tight to prevent the laughter escaping, but that didn’t do any good. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

His only mistake in trying to escape had been forgetting about the incoming tide. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He was breathing heavily from the effort of the hike up the mountain face when he reached the spot where Trina loved to go for escape. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You think me deluded. Tricked by my own walking fairytale. You think I came without a hope of winning— came to escape indignity by suicide!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two pigeons are perched on the fire escape over our heads, cooing softly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After their narrow escape, the chilly, musty old place felt like home: safe, familiar, and friendly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Sort of. Not really. We escaped through the forest together. He fought and distracted the....He fought so the rest of us could escape.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The smell of fermented fruit was overpowering, and a haze of escaped flies lifted off the tables like a buzzing veil every time Morgan moved. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Feet cut off to prevent escape and hands cut off to stop theft. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She scanned the park for an escape route. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She could feel it in her bones that he had escaped. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

School always felt safe, an escape from home stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Loki, who will have escaped from his bonds beneath the earth, will be the helmsman of the ship called Naglfar. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Why do you care how I escaped?” said Harry slowly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It had not escaped his notice that, despite Fudge’s assurances at their first meeting, they were now seeing rather a lot of each other, nor that Fudge was becoming more flustered with each visit. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

No, she shouted, or perhaps she only thought it, for no whisper of sound escaped her lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione had been so deeply involved in helping Sirius escape from the Ministry of Magic that they were almost as concerned about Harry’s godfather as he was. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Like pilots everywhere they had escaped from their wives to talk about flying. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a trip of escape, in that normal sense. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And what of escape? In the dark we should have passed the signs that led you to the brooch.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“He does not ask you to help me escape. Why would you take the risk?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It looked like a neck, as if a creature in the bean were trying to escape but hadn’t yet managed to pull its head out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It made me sick to think of the doe’s escaping, maybe to hurt for days before she finally died. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while the Bottle Trees were guards, making sure evil spirits like Uncle C didn’t escape, the Tree of Power seemed like it wanted to protect you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even the most gifted of lawyers, equipped with the best of family lessons, cannot escape the limitations of their generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We followed Arul to a flat, open field, where there was no escape from the sunshine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

‘Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you also are net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Plus, we could do some dance moves as were escaping. Perhaps a ballet number!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Deep breaths, he thought, and he sucked in a lungful of air, letting it escape slowly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was what escape was: discovering a part of herself that no one else could find. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In Phoenix during late summer, however, you couldn’t escape the humidity. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

All one could do was pray to Jesus and run—and even then, there was no escape. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instead a faint sigh escapes me, and heat rushes into my cheeks, embarrassment. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know about you, but I escaped having any classes in the dungeon room this year. I’m like a plant,” he said with a smile. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the house I deposited his can of water on the porch beside his milk and eggs, confident that I had escaped suspicion. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And this presented her with a problem that she had refused, at home in Maryland, to think about, but from which, now, she could not escape: the problem of their life together. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And I kept hold of my Swiss Army knife in my pocket and I held on to Toby in my other pocket to make sure he didn’t escape. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hot all over at the thought of being given a valentine in front of a line of first years, which happened to include Ginny Weasley, Harry tried to escape. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Near the middle of the bus, two men leap from their seats and elbow through the press of people trying to escape. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to help them escape the camps. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had to buy as much time as possible to allow Basil’s escape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Amari shook her head no, almost ashamed that she had escaped the fate of most of the women. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he obtained all the information that he needed, he organized teams of Indians to dig up whatever might have escaped the priest’s zealous archaeological notice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he began to speak of his many adventures, his riotous life, the marvels he had seen, the scrapes he had escaped, his fortunes good and bad. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Shoto was able to reach orbit and escape by making the jump to light speed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I bump her arm and I flash my eyes over to our right, just about the only possibility we have for an escape. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I knew I was making a scene, but I didn’t know how to escape. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at that very moment a hiss escaped its teeth, a gasp of pain or hate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I feel an urge to escape, but then I remember that my car is still at Pagoda Pizza. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her company would have made the escape more difficult, but Cora hadn’t been a baby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But then, without any human help, she escaped during the night and made her way back to the praise house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The humid air pummeled us as soon as we left the air-conditioned science building, but I was still grateful for the excuse to escape the classroom. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Booth would require the type of help Surratt could provide along his escape south. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church when she knelt, in the yard when she beat rugs, beneath the peach tree when she picked fruit, Desdemona’s feminine elaborations escaped the constraints of her drab, confining clothes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They suspected that a man of his reputation must know something of Booth’s escape. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d only just escaped the classroom, and I was darting down a deserted corridor when he found me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I run through the escape scenarios I do with every Nazi, except that in this case they're insane. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I might be safe inside this line of women, but there was no escape. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed onto the window sill and out to the fire escape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I came back I was on the fire escape with a saltshaker in my hand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I laughed and made my escape, still laughing as I ran upstairs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I am scared of the monsters and run and run to get away, but no matter how fast or how far I run, I can never escape them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mouse struggled, biting at Cole’s fingers with razor-sharp teeth, its tiny feet clawing frantically to escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He escaped from the embrace and dried his tears—partly uncomfortable, partly in rapture. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew myself further into my corner, trying to escape the man. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

‘That is no name for a Man that you give. And strange too is your raiment. Have you sprung out of the grass? How did you escape our sight? Are you elvish folk?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The clothes I’d spent so much time picking out were wrinkled and covered in dust, and strands of my hair had escaped my ponytail and curled out in a thin frizz halo. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

All day long she sat over a hole in the ground, the omphalos, the navel of the earth, breathing petrochemical fumes escaping from underneath. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet for a long time the pig had led a charmed life, nonchalantly absorbing high-powered lead lumps in its thick haunches, or else—it being also a rather swift pig—escaping on the run unscathed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what Korean Air did, when it finally turned its operations around, was give its pilots the opportunity to escape the constraints of their cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I feel the air escape over my lips. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One night, rockets landed near their camp, and in the confusion, many people escaped and ran away, including Khouy’s wife. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could help John, Eden, and my mother escape right now, and risk running into the plague patrols or street police. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But for the first time in her life, Ashima has no desire to escape to Calcutta, not now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His moment of greatness was escaping into the green foam. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Percy, there were only a few demigod warriors aboard that ship, and they all chose to batde for Kronos. Perhaps some heeded your warning and escaped. If they did not... they chose their path.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There would be no burrowing under those, no escaping to hunt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because there’s no way I could ever achieve escape velocity: the speed an object must reach in order to break away from another object’s gravitational pull. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

More than once, Herbert had escaped serious injury by outwitting or outrunning his attackers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the pub are talking about the terrible state of the world and how in God’s name Hermann Goering escaped the hangman an hour before the hanging. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Hen Wen is in my charge. I let her escape and it is I who must find her.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

One hand was still clawing the air as it tried to reach Scabbers, who was squealing like a piglet, scratching Ron’s face and neck as he tried to escape. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As Tam Lin once said, a jailer has a hundred things on his mind, but a prisoner has only one: escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t escape through one of them as we had before. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A few snickers escaped the crowd, and Gaily looked around, his face bright red. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Red Cross parcels come on the last Friday of the month, and there’ll be a meeting of the escape committee at nineteen hundred hours this evening. I think that’s about all you need to know.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The warrior bonding with him was no guarantee he would escape banishment, but it was something that could not be easily ignored. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She opened a half door, like an escape hatch, and slid through it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And a cat, if he had stumbled back upon it and it had bounded away, might have hit him behind the knees as it escaped. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They were so immersed in their debate that he thought about trying to escape again. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today, he reported, as the family moved inside to escape the twilight mist that rose from the river, he had overseen the carpenter who was splitting the white oak for the clapboards. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For all Burnham’s obsession with detail and control, one event at the fair escaped his attention. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I have not heard of them from that day to this, whether they found their own escape, or were taken by our pursuers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The Inferi bumped into each other, attempting, blindly, to escape the fire in which they were enclosed... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was no escaping the army, especially not for Sarai, since her room gave onto the sunstruck silver-blue palm of the seraph. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And their cramped Gemini cockpit was all they had, they couldn’t escape it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was that Gollum passed him without seeing him, and went to guard the way out, lest the ‘thief’ should escape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t the smartest kid in the universe, he might not be able to figure out an alternate escape route. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the time to be making wild escape plans. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the to isn’t actually part of the infinitive and isn’t always necessary: Blackbeard helped him escape. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constant criticism grated on her nerves, and as soon as she could escape — on an afternoon when Ana and Clara and Lady Isobel went into the City — she fled the house. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, there was no escaping the conclusion that our argument was soft. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to stop a number of men hurrying to escape, but none responded. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And a storm flooded the road, flipping the bus and allowing you to escape?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Clean up and escape before the game ends, without anybody noticing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mudd’s lies delayed the cavalry’s departure long enough to allow the fugitives to escape Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I barely escaped with my life. Most who enter aren’t that lucky.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The officers seal off surrounding streets and leave little room for escape. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If this was real and not illusion, he’d escape whatever trap these creatures had set for him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We were now at the top of a bushy hill immediately behind the swamp, in a clearing just before the escape route. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The trick of it seemed to have escaped him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Deep down, she was unsettled by her narrow escape. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I was ready to escape out the back window, diary in hand, but thank God, I ran to the front one to check first. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You fought when they came. You escaped. You helped rescue my mother...” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Carmine soon wants to crawl off the seat, and I am so busy trying to distract him from escaping that I barely notice as the other kids come on board and the car fills. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But once I'm on my feet, I realize escape may not be so simple. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He himself certainly doesn’t have the plague, not with the way he was able to escape. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“There is no escape if love is not there,” Hannah had said. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really believe they would escape the island only to come right back to the bridge? These people are meant to distract us. Back to the island at once! That’s an order!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow it seemed worse to mess up, to ruin everything months, rather than years before they could escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he was so forgotten in the midst of the melee that he could help people escape. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m hurrying, making a show of bustle, it strikes me that one of my reasons for escape is that I don’t want to meet her mother coming back, from wherever she’s been. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These had to be other beastkeepers, ones that either hadn’t managed to escape or hadn’t bothered trying. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When even the bellhops and waiters started hounding her, she had to escape to another hotel. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We would all have to escape Africa by a different route. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else’s trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the migrants bolt down the ladders, trying to escape the noxious haze. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Percy Weasley, meanwhile, had much to say on the subject of Sirius’s escape. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“A few months back,” Inez told them, “we had ’bout twenty escaped slaves come here from Georgia Colony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been so foolish as to fight the slavers, as Jorah Mormont had, but that did not mean he had escaped punishment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Both would survive, though they never got over the fear these near escapes caused and kept their doors securely bolted against all visitors throughout the plague. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Say, Chester, you want to escape?” he asked. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What also kept many from trying to escape was knowing that even if they succeeded, many fellow prisoners would be killed in retribution. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to treat his men as individuals but sometimes the names just escaped him. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her two daughters and widowed mother in tow, she escaped to Waltha Castle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His biggest claim to helpfulness so far had been changing into a weasel to escape from an underground workshop, and even that had been Leo’s idea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a nosy neighbor had mistaken the escape for a burglary in progress and had notified the police. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t realized how worried I was about leaving her behind so the rest of us could escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

June 15—Our escape hit the papers yesterday, and the tabloids had a field day. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to learn everything we do. Sayan Kotor is telling me that the ravine leads to a pass. If we get there before they see us, we could escape yet.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most logical thing a soldier escapes from is danger, death, the enemy. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to do that, I would have to drastically alter my escape plan. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than die Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

These numbers, pulled by the tug of both zero and infinity, spiral around on the equator forever and ever, never able to escape the grasp of either. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I drew back on the oars so I could escape without her. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She spent hours lurking by the dassie dens only to have them scale an almost vertical rock to escape. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still ran like antelope in the big corral, bawling to escape the men with ropes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The escape instructions, prepared carefully by his MI6 handlers, had been sealed into the hardcover binding of a book. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But as I sat there, I found it impossible to escape the sensation that something dangerous was drawing in upon to us. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The noise and movement began to die down eventually; I supposed the rats in the square had all either been caught or had escaped. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have done everything so wrong, and now there will be no escape for any of us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We never actually saw him die when we escaped the Amity compound, but I just assumed he had—I’m not sure how I feel. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then we could all escape the city—maybe even grab Gilgamesh on the way out—and make a new life somewhere. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Obstinately, and for sheer escape, he spent hours translating Homer and Mimnermos into English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her mind was fuzzy and dark, vibrating against her skull in a frenzy, like it was trying to escape. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The band, sitting in an upper corner of the stadium to escape the rain, played its familiar marches, but the music seemed muffled and miles away. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Five leagues or one,’ said Gimli, ‘we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Her hair has staged a full-scale rebellion and more of it has escaped her mangled braid than remains tucked inside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though worn out from my flight, my close escape, not to mention my churning emotions, I could not rest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I know I have no place here. But there’s no escape.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had hoped that Kathy and Mhlaba might escape conviction, but it was another sign, if one was necessary, that the state was taking a harsh line. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more stood on the next boat dock over, just in case we tried to escape that way. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I am here to tell you. I escaped. I saw. There is no resettlement.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I should tell you about the black panther that escaped from the Zurich Zoo in the middle of winter.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When’s the last time you escaped to the mortal world? I was there a couple of years ago. I know the way! Besides, I understand what we’re facing up there. You don’t have a clue!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Opportunities to make plans together became virtually nonexistent, and it was in desperation that Harry, Ron, and Hermione took to volunteering to feed the chickens just to escape the overcrowded house. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Soon he was fully four feet outside the Glade, jerking his body from side to side as he tried to escape his collar. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But there was more than one way to escape. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Just as with Libra, a colony on the moon would have to be sealed to keep its atmosphere from escaping into the vacuum of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. I got away from them by escaping on the bus.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last she found an exit, and she pushed open the glass door and escaped outside, relieved to be away from the prying eyes of those who had watched her departing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the grownups busied themselves setting up the meal, I made my escape, sneaking away to ride the merry-go-round. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran flung himself against an oak to escape the flying hoofs and the heaving, glistening flanks. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown—and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been soundly flogged for letting the Vole family escape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

How am I going to be an escape artist octopus if I can’t even say it out loud? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t I escape when I had the chance? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were daydreams, escapes, and they didn’t last long. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’m hitting it, trying to escape, but the glass won’t break. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When two more Luftwaffe aircraft began to chase them, Aleksandr escaped into clouds while the two enemy fighter planes collided in flames. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They squeeze under the door, a mass of rats escaping a flood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Being at the movies was an escape into a large cocoon of a story, a step away from the outside. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Yutar exclaimed that this was evidence that all of the accused meant to escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was that of a runaway, one unsure of the latest turn in the escape. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This is the punishment for escape! All of you will share the blame!” the watch officer yelled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After I hear from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Reginald’s promise of escape begins to make more sense. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left unsaid the idea of his deserting his sisters while he escaped. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But a corn diet causes a condition that keeps the gas from escaping. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Commander Jameson suggested it, and she got the courts to approve it. I think she’s still pretty mad about how hard Day bit her hand when he tried to escape.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then he came to the part about the animals who had escaped from the burning newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor concluded that she was paranoid, but noted, as Hoover put it, that she “perceives items which would escape the observation of the average individual.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I didn’t see how even someone much wiser than I was in the ways of the time could escape from Louisiana, surrounded as they would be by water and slave states. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he saw the use of them, and he intended to study them carefully for his future escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a house I would have run to another room, but in the tight little world of our cubicle there was no escaping this scene. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Director tightens his grip more, and a grin escapes his purple-red lips. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Something was bubbling on the stove that seemed to need his attention, so Jinny escaped and ran nimbly up the path, to start fresh. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Going down the cliff, we’ll reach water. An escape. A way out.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They’d held him on the ground so he couldn’t escape and, with his powers weakened from being so far from his home territory, they’d been able to cut him apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mary shuddered every time she left the house and was plotting her escape from Cherry Hill almost as soon as she got there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mac led us over to the window and pointed out the street that was our escape route. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew what he was thinking, and I wondered if he would tell Mike the truth about how many kids actually escaped that night. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Arthur reflected on this gruesome chestnut for some time, then he said: “So it is no good trying to escape Nimue?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a shaking, damaged aircraft, Zoya made her escape and found the Soviet troops only three minutes away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re just going to poke it a bit, so that it keeps its mouth open long enough for us to escape.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I fabricated the jib dummy at home on the morning of my escape," Howard recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the next forty-seven minutes designing our grand escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was always humid, the steam unable to escape from the small room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Our ancestors risked their lives to cross the ocean, to escape those socialist countries. And what do you do? You turn around and go back?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But he had to stand here until that picture came back, that motive, that driving desire to escape the law. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

One may learn to cope with the stigma of criminality, but like the stigma of race, the prison label is not something that black men in the ghetto can ever fully escape. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, incidentally, he was playing with fire again, helping an intruder to escape undetected from his father’s house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You could admit that you were sent to hell and you escaped, and I wouldn’t have any judgment toward you.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His plans would have to be much more devious than usual if they were to escape his mother’s attention. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It had been built a long while before by the Brandybucks, for the use of guests, or members of the family that wished to escape from the crowded life of Brandy Hall for a time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister’s observation. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It makes a hissing sound as if the air is slowly escaping. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His feet feel itchy beneath the table, and he wonders how soon he will be able to escape. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I’d wanted to escape so badly that when Dad mentioned this trip with his family, I’d asked, “Can I come?” without thinking. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But finding a change of clothes—less than three hours after escaping the camp and before anyone could get a look at him—was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The man “put spur to his horse and escaped”—but not for long. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to him that if he did—by some miracle— manage to escape, the She Elephant could hide Rita and Kuda so deeply no one would ever find them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in its nut-sized brain, the squirrel must have recognized its only chance for escape. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I could waste time feeling bad about it later; but, for now, my mind had gotten a whiff of hope, and it wasn’t about to let it escape through a parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe tributes have tried to escape in the past. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Clearly, if much of our knowledge is analogical in origin it cannot be certain, and the real causes of events may always escape us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They all liked Jo immensely, but never fell in love with her, though very few escaped without paying the tribute of a sentimental sigh or two at Amy’s shrine. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for now, she waited, hoping for a phone call to tell her whether Joseph was still an inmate, was among the dead, or, God willing, had escaped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He found he could escape to a place within himself where he was less of an accomplice—even less than an observer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He also found it difficult, during the weeks and days before the escape, to avoid thoughts of what had happened to his mother and brother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When it gets to the point at which the virtual particle/antiparticle pair appeared together, it is scattered by the gravitational field into a particle traveling forward in time and escaping from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No edge of light escaped the thick curtains, but the room was bright with the light from the lamps. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

People wrote that they had rushed to be with loved ones or tried to escape when they heard that the invaders were on the move. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As he coaxed the flames higher, his thoughts again focused on escape. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“What kind of grievance does your family have to risk an escape?” the officer asked. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Frank sat on the edge of the mattress, as if preparing for a quick escape. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had wished her out of my life, and she had acquiesced, floating out of her body to escape my terrible hatred. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the columns it was as dark as if night had fled there to escape the floodlights. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Katz wanted every detail of my walk home, and had elaborate plans for his defense involving a heavy ceramic lamp base and, ultimately, escape out the back window. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He only kept his hands on me because he was afraid that I would run away and escape. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I went through Dan’s apartment—upstairs, I mean. Out onto his fire escape and down a flight into your bedroom. That’s how I left you that note under your pillow the first night.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As he scrounged in Gilju, escape to China slipped from Shin’s mind. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Zizmo gave her a disapproving look, but she escaped behind her headphones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even in his sleep he could not altogether escape from her image. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Finally we escape from the mall and I've got enough new clothes to last me, as Grim points out, a week or so. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Planning to escape meant waiting for a work detail that would get Shin and Park out of the factory and give them an excuse to be near the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’ll free Day, shout out a signal, then John will emerge from the wall like a ghost and escape with us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I’d left them locked up behind an electric fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was the first time that he had seen them properly since escaping from the vault. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But they had succeeded in playing a very simple trick, bamboozling the Mark commander, attacking his sentries and escaping by night. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But four hours ago, they were fugitives, creeping in bushes, hearts apound, danger surrounding; and now, they sit giddy with escape, surrounded only by companions, drunken on the airiness of flight, recounting mishaps. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“It was Miss Bunting and myself whom they wanted. I was able to escape, but Miss Bunting was not so fortunate.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

To ordinary citizens, the sentinel ships might have been protectors, but to Sefia, who had never been ordinary, they were prison guards, barring her escape. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would be no small matter to escape the stream now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the wire door popped open and the birds escaped. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked into the thickest forest and tried to escape the downpour by standing under big trees, but it rained to the point where the leaves couldn’t hold off the water anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As I faded into time’s dateless night, I would say to the doctor, “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on . . .” and my soul would escape gracefully. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar speaks: I have dreamt it again: standing suddenly still In a thicket, among wet trees, stunned, minutely Shuddering, hearing a wooden echo escape. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pair we spotted when we first escaped the fog felt like a welcoming committee. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the new tiger cubs has escaped!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Often they gave themselves up to daydreams of escape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

These friends are not what she wants to escape when she makes her escape. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The women of Raskova’s regiments seem to have generally escaped assault and unwanted attention. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a burrito in her clawed feet, but before she could escape, the blind man swung his weed whacker and smacked her in the back so hard, Percy winced. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

From such an intimate one must sometimes escape to the company of strangers, to the liberation of the city, in order to form new versions of oneself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Nyla finds us trying to escape, both our lives will be over. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We’ve been hanging out, doing our best to escape the claustrophobia of living behind a guarded electric fence—gabbing, taking circuitous walks around the camp, meeting other kids who have nothing to do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they could continue on their escape south, the fugitives had business at the tavern. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left most of his body in the water for a quick escape if needed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“After bombing and having escaped the enemy’s fire, I couldn’t pull myself together for ten or fifteen minutes,” said Nina Raspopova, another 46th Guards pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were howling their protests and trying to escape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atzerodt will also escape Washington over the Navy Yard Bridge, then gallop into Maryland. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

That is why it is called black: no light can escape from it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the initial release of its specifications and performance charts back in August of 2020, most police agencies which dealt with escaped andys had been protesting. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw that Prince Brat had set his jaws, just as Jemmy had always done—and not a sound escaped his lips. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When Mom thinks something is a good idea, there’s no escape. It’s best to go along quietly.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I wondered how I would escape if I was in a story. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He left happy to escape with his life. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He watched the little novice rolling about on the grass, grappling with large armfuls of the smooth hazelnuts which constantly seemed to escape his grasp. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They told the incredibly dramatic—and highly improbable—tale of their escape from PSF custody over our shared meal of fruit snacks, stale Pringles, and Twinkies. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She slipped out of the room and escaped to her own, where a few dresses were already laid out on her bed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The drawing below, from the General History, shows cries of pain escaping from victims’ lips. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even worms coiled back and forth to escape capture and death. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He felt a worrying shudder in his chest, as if his heart wanted to escape, to flee his body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He complained loudly about first years never getting on the House Quidditch teams and told long, boastful stories that always seemed to end with him narrowly escaping Muggles in helicopters. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A nervous giggle escapes my lips as I imagine Mom’s face when the doctor told her she had a fungus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the years after he escaped the camp, Shin learned that many people associate warmth, security, and affection with the words “mother,” “father,” and “brother.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I watch my hands unlatch the window that opens farther than it’s supposed to; I watch my body bend and ease onto the fire escape. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some of the infected had seen their escape and were following; others were streaming out the front door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She opens her mouth, probably to tell me again that Mirjam couldn't have escaped through there because of the inside latch, but then thinks better. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Several moans escaped him as he shifted, rocking back and forth on his side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He danced to the side to escape, skidding on the railing, almost falling. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I can escape, Holly. Look in my eyes and tell me that I can’t.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I think about escaping, out the back way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But what had I gained in devising my own death and escaping from Elsinore? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Although his family had escaped Russia, they knew that terrible things were happening to the friends they had left behind. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Smith told the women that Harriet Powell was a slave from Mississippi who had recently escaped while in Syracuse with the slaveholder. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Tadas told one of the girls that hell is the worst place ever and there’s no escape for all eternity.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Frantic to escape the new violence caused by it, blacks, called Exodusters, streamed out of North Carolina heading for Western states. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When John Wilkes Booth planned the assassination and his escape, he did not prepare for an extended campout under the stars. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the same tree the girl in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn saw from her fire escape. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was cold comfort that the massacre of the remaining bonobos would slow the kata-kata and aid our escape. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The Count of Monte Cristo. Another great Dumas book. An innocent man is betrayed, accused of treason, imprisoned, and after many long years, escapes. Napoleon, jealous of General Dumas, sent him to jail.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They reminded me fleetingly of prisoners carrying their leg irons as they escaped from a chain gang. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would occasionally escape from his cage, wander around the house, and eventually climb up inside the hollow center post of the dining-room table and go to sleep. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Sirius Black escaped from them,” Harry said slowly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Great Mother had saved us, and we escaped without looking back. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was the variable that allowed him to escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“But if my brother escaped, then how did you know who I was? How could you be sure?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You know how it feels to want to escape, only to be limited by the dimensions of your personal universe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” I screamed, running in circles trying to escape it. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I bet we could escape, and Pinkeye wouldn't even notice I was gone," she told Hot Pie. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan upward to the fire escapes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It took me a moment to realize people were climbing into boats and escaping! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish to say something respecting this escape. It may prevent some persons laying under suspicion alonger me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A soft knock at the door behind her tinned Arya away from the window and her dreams of escape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kerling insisted that he didn't think the mission was going to be a success and wanted to escape to South America, where the Nazis were "running the show." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, that would be the escape hatch. We’ll find the main hole nearer the middle of the bush.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The total was sixty cents, a sum that limited and blocked escape routes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A golden ray of light escaped her like a ribbon, like a snake coiling in the air before it lashed across Fedu's cheek. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A group of Candor and Erudite are waiting there, including the blond Divergent woman who got dragged to the elevators by her hair, the girl I helped escape, and Cara. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They scrabbled and clawed their way over each other, trying to get to the top and to escape. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out and, seeing no one in the schoolyard, ran outside to climb the fire escape upside down, hanging on to the metal stairs with fingers and toes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The perilous journey into the interior, up rivers, wending mountain passes, and the dangers escaped: lions, serpents, man-killing plants, duplicitous guides. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo was afraid that his uncle would track him down if he left, but finally, on the third night that his uncle did not return, he decided to escape. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sniper fires; the National Guardsmen fire back, and the man drops, his legs tangling on the fire escape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He could ask directions, but that wouldn’t be too smart if he was trying to escape. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could hear them scrambling around inside the metal pot, scrabbling up to escape the steam. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should be down there, a foot behind, watching them, making sure she didn’t seize Dorian and use him to escape. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As usual, drumming was my big escape from all this reality stuff. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was here. Yesterday. She’d brought us a bunch of sequined T-shirts. And while she was here, somebody snuck into my room from the fire escape.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The plant’s windows were covered with black paint, blocking light from escaping and making the building nearly invisible to enemy bombers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only towering Parnassus was not quite covered, and the bit of dry land on its very topmost peak was the means by which mankind escaped destruction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again he escaped lasting damage, though he had to spend some days in a darkened room before his eyes forgave him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All the girls head off in different directions in a desperate bid to escape the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quick now, before all that sweet warm air escapes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But she doesn’t move, only glares at me, unaware that the tendrils of hair that have escaped her braid make the glare much less intimidating than she’d like. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The words had barely escaped her lips before the Reverend interrupted her cold. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Cole struggled to move his arms, his legs, anything to escape the white monster, but his body refused to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had had dreams as a child, dreams every child had, of the witch who chased him down dark alleys, between lawn trees, and finally into rooms from which he could not escape. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the heat, there is no escaping the fact that the bright sun and rich soil make the area ideal for growing things once you add water to the equation. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But what was clear was that, far from escaping the pursuers who wished me dead, Id come to a place where they could trap me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he wanted to escape, Rosy had blocked the door and had moved out of the way only at the last moment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She wondered if ever again she would escape from the sound of that dreadful breathing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Meng tells our uncles that many Cambodians are leaving the country for Thailand in search of new life and to escape the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked drawn, like a part of her soul had escaped. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You had what appears to be a narrow escape.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he added, “or by getting blown away just as they thought they were escaping the maze.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At the fair’s turnstiles even Holmes could not escape paying cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of Africans who had been stolen, torn from their homes and families, and described the miseries of their bondage and then their hair-raising escapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My eagerness to escape into the woods, if only for two hours, overrides my current concerns. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sealed away on the pig farm, Shin heard nothing about the street trading, corruption, and extralegal intercity travel that would—in less than two years' time—help him escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the shiny white kitchen and escaped to the back porch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She put away her knife but assured me that if I tried to escape I’d see it again—just before she killed me with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The symbolism escapes me, but the holder of the table's one uncracked egg was supposedly rewarded with a year of good luck. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For years it escaped detection, but in 1939, two birders, operating independently in different places, coincidentally saw a Bachman’s warbler within two days of each other. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

None of it escapes into the cold, wild air. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody but themselves and Professor Dumbledore knew about how Sirius had escaped, or believed in his innocence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wants to escape, wants to catch up with his brothers, but Mutti tugs back. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall seemed content to sit and listen, so the game went on with daring adventures, narrow escapes, tragic illnesses and even a romance or two. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had called fire and lightning down on assassins and escaped to safety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coughing, chest heaving, he looked back at the devastation he’d just escaped: one tower continued to burn; smoke and flames still roared from the upper floors. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was all academic, seeing as he intended to escape anyway. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe she should flush herself down the toilet and escape through the sewers like Charles did in that video game. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Journeymen earned a slightly higher salary and usually escaped the chores. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The deed was done and word of what Prentisstown had done spread like wildfire, starting with the few who’d managed to escape. All men from Prentisstown were declared criminals. We couldn’t leave.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I learned that sagacity and quick wits are necessary in avoiding dangerous situations; and that fatuity and shortsightedness make one go around in circles, seemingly unaware of the many opportunities for escape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was therefore necessary for Moses to find the people of Israel slaves in Egypt and oppressed by the Egyptians, in order that they might be disposed to follow him to escape this servitude. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'd see others on the fire escapes, or standing on the sidewalk like me. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were glad to escape with their lives. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He tried desperately to think of a way of escape, he would have done anything at all not to have to go inside. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He turned: There was Lucius Malfoy sitting in the darkest corner, ragged and still bearing the marks of the punishment he had received after the boy’s last escape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of turning back or spurring the horse in a bid for escape, the stranger reined in and slowly approached the bandits, who stood in a crescent, blocking the path. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had he somehow escaped, in spite of the quarantine? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One felt that nothing could escape their scrutiny. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Company spent that night in the great cavernous hall, huddled close together in a corner to escape the draught: there seemed to be a steady inflow of chill air through the eastern archway. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You have my word, I shall not permit her to escape.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Washington, of course, arranged for Honeyman’s “escape” after getting his report. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one hand he took the notebook from his mother’s lap and opened it again, focusing on his own handwriting on the page to keep tears from escaping. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

David put me and a bunch of the kids in the escape boat with these two hooligans and off we went, real quiet like. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The girl’s expression—her lowered eyes, the way she glanced around, seeking escape—told Samantha what a mistake the question had been. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and escaped as fast as I could without saying a word. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Milo was so relieved at having escaped the Doldrums that he assured the dog that he bore him no ill will and, in fact, was very grateful for the assistance. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Stephanie and Rose volunteer to monitor Evelyn’s movements in the hours before the escape, and to report any unusual behavior to the Amity compound by two-way radio. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The experience had subtler points that did not escape Rutledge. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

These men don’t even sleep on mats on the ground? she thought briefly, but then the horror of what was about to happen overwhelmed her and she looked around wildly for a means of escape. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right now I just want to escape, and pretend this never happened. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I lost one escape route because I decided to save you. I’m not going to lose another.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I told him of the queen's vow to keep my escape a secret. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But this cat had been upon them too quickly: Tucker couldn’t have escaped. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The folly of this action became apparent when 4-Wind and his brother escaped from confinement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We all need it. An escape. Forget Fullbrook for one night.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the tears stinging my eyes, but I couldn’t escape, not with Grandfather holding my hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had destroyed this city, the people had tried to escape it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was just escaping her as the answer to the question on the test had...except this was even harder, for she wasn’t exactly certain of the question she was trying to answer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever you think of him, you cannot escape the fact that virtually everything that happened in nineteenth-century music in some way began with Beethoven. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I could see those folks on the fire escape tumbling to the ground in a rush of screams and cracking metal. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In one camp, six Russian prisoners of war managed to escape, but they were caught later on. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I dropped my borrowed towel on the floor, wiped my nose with the back of my hand, and made my escape. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They would live in Louisiana for the next two years; when my dad graduated from college, they returned to Iran, where they remained until their escape in 1982. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

By playing up their strangeness, the way a slave simpered and acted childlike to escape a beating, they evaded the entanglements of the quarter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I would have closed my eyes against it if I could have, but there was no escaping it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

To escape his gaze I turned my eyes in the direction of the rest of the people in the hall. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a lot easier to escape with Boots in a backpack than in his arms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when Roy heard the story from Beatrice, he knew instantly why her stepbrother had chosen Dana Matherson as an escape partner. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manolo admits even he talked, giving names of those who were already caught or had escaped abroad. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s breath escaped in a quivering sigh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But Howard added an escape clause: Pollard would ride only if he was fit to do so. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

December 25 What If Brother Quang asks what if Father escaped to Cambodia and is building an army to go back and change history? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“He slew Greyjoy’s ironmen as well. Wex saw men cut down trying to yield. When we asked how he escaped, he took a chunk of chalk and drew a tree with a face.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He learned that railroad stations, post offices, courthouses, and churches were places to escape from the cold for a few hours in the late night. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having grown up in a place I was dying to escape, then landing in one where I sometimes feel like an imposter, hardly makes me unique. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I leaped to my feet and lunged across the room, just in time to catch a glimpse of him descending the fire escape. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His controllers in England even “arrested” him—but of course he always somehow managed to escape. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By rights, she should be dead, and though she had escaped by what seemed almost a miracle, she scolded herself for having been so careless. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anatole got to spend his days playing bottle-cap checkers with a pair of lackadaisical guards, who let him read and write anything as long as he didn’t escape. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, most of the people I knew had moved to New York with the express purpose of escaping Americans such as Bonnie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered how much longer it would be before August had to act on the things I’d told her—me running away, helping Rosaleen escape. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave the church a few minutes later feeling warmer, drier, and like I narrowly escaped something. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“They do the tsar’s work. I hope that poor dragon escapes them all.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“How about we do true confessions later and worry about escaping now?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’re here for six million years,” sighed Milo, “and I don’t see any way to escape.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

There always seem to be escape clauses which can account for anything. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to find a way to escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually, this fellow communicated to me that he was planning my escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A shriek escapes my lips and I'm having trouble holding the arrow in place. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dana would resume the stalking, and Roy would have to dream up another escape plan. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. And he left through the fire escape, the same way he came in. How convenient.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knew that within minutes he would be telling his mates that he’d barely escaped being washed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we stood there under gunpoint, an old man who had escaped from Mattru Jong was heard crossing a creaky wooden bridge leading to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And Stapleton escapes into the Grimpen Mire, which is part of the moor, and he dies because he is sucked into a bog. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, her only chance of escape was to play along. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He saw his mother hanged, Park’s body on the fence, and visualized the torture he believed his father was subjected to after his escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She lets her chickens just run here, there, and everywhere, so they escaped their fateful death by flapping up into the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop Peeta’s practice, on the pretext of showing him how to rid himself of the itchy scabs, and as we scrub ourselves, I bring up our escape. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what I suspected in the woods when I found Bonnie and Twill escaping. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had made sure I wasn’t going to escape by going out the window and down the fire escape. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

My plan to escape, my hopes, my hates. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If they found out I was leaving, they would surely try to marry me off before I could escape, so they could get the cows that man would give them for me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sigh of relief escaped from my lips as the soldiers herded three other kids into a small room. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Coming and going, arrival and departure...remaining, escaping...going toward and away. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If the gods had given her the strength they gave Jaime and that swaggering oaf Robert, she could have made her own escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was as cynical as I was regarding uplift and hope, and we were proud of having escaped what we called the “childhood disease of metaphysical fear.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this, our third night in the village, I decided to escape the noxious smudge by moving into a tent, pitched just outside, that Rob and Mike had vacated when they went to Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no move escaped them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange day indeed, and when Mrs. Caruthers decided to take a nap before dinner Ophie took that moment to escape to the safety of the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Despite the alternative, despite knowing that if they hadn’t tried to escape, all of them might’ve died, it still hurt, even though he hadn’t known them very well. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was indulging myself in details as if they were wool blankets or alcohol, escaping wholly back into the fire-and-water-filled early days of our friendship. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She wiped at a tear I’d let escape, pulled me in for another hug, and said, “We’ll sort it out. Together this time.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

There was no way she could fight off so many by herself while Nico prepared their escape, especially with Coach Hedge out of commission. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘You were there? Tell me more! Why did no help come? And how did you escape, and yet he did not, so mighty a man as he was, and only orcs to withstand him?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He had escaped the cocktail, but he too had no appetite. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The home Harry might have had if Wormtail had not escaped had been haunting him all summer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could not escape her love, so freely given, even in her final moments. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even if the words would come, my throat is so tight it won’t let them escape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I know this will be a difficult task, since anyone Peeta shares childhood memories with would most likely be from town, and almost none of those people escaped the flames. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Thick ringlets of dark hair escaped her bonnet, which also seemed to be made of buckskin. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Assistant Chief Inspector, Harry Taylor, speculated that the assassins had not rushed from the ballroom among the crowd, but had kept running past the stage and escaped on 165th Street. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then twelve billion gallons of water molecules crowd for that initial escape vent, and they tear and chew at the structure until house-size chunks of it tumble down its disintegrating face. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So he continues to escape to his tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Whenever neighbors burned trash, I ran over and watched the blaze trying to escape the garbage can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I need is them searching this area when we finally escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heat that escaped my body just warmed up the interior. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talked about escaping, being interrogated by the Gestapo, phoning Mr. Kleiman and being courageous. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They’re standing next to the door, probably so they can make their escape if the meeting isn’t exciting enough. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In her mind, she was planning her escape route: She could follow the cliff-top plateau north for a way, and then there were rock jumbles and trees she could hide in. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The fresh and dried fish; the fat, oil, or meat from beaver, beluga, caribou, moose, oogruk, polar bear, and walrus; cranberries, salmonberries and wild rhubarb all had so far escaped contamination. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could remember the old magician his father had bought it from, and how safe he had felt when it was made fast over the exposed pulse through which his ka might try to escape. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They tried again, the meaning still escaping me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that he would never escape them, never see anyone he loved again, never see the ocean waves again. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, well, we give from twenty-five to thirty for things of this sort. Pay when it comes out,” returned Mr. Dashwood, as if that point had escaped him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood sizzles above the burning paper and we watch the white maggots try to escape. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You make me feel better from the very first instant I catch you on my fire escape and you talk about the flying brick.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At a pinch one could escape that way. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Vice Principal Marten patrols the parking lot between classes, making sure only students with passes escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Eva would evade them, escape into Berlin, hide there, and miraculously survive the war. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Henry bites down on a sound that tries to escape his mouth, and rasps, “Perfectly.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

To escape the man I have made my ally. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the bucolic surroundings of Columbia, Seabiscuit could not escape the carnival atmosphere. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the infirmary didn't mean escaping the net of cruelty Amon Goeth cast over the camp. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Guards could win admission to college if they caught an inmate trying to escape—an incentive system that ambitious guards seized upon. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The smoke gathers in the high ceiling and escapes through a hole in the roof. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You are ready to hear about our escape? Your recorder machine is turning?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately a second is beside him, a black insect is caught between them and tries to escape—the airman. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kanei had escaped with his parents, but lost his two sisters and three brothers in the chaos. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Holly had already come down the hill on the previous day to see Hazel and tell again the story of his escape from Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaken to his core, Leeman sat down on the tracks, overwhelmed by his narrow escape and by the realization that he had just saved an entire train and scores of passengers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They saw many migrants injured as they tried to escape capture by the police. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After the gates to the mausoleum had been locked and the family, friends, and gravediggers had retired, I was left alone among the flowers that had escaped Barrabas’s hunger and accompanied Rosa to the cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s standing in my only path of escape. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What kind of lunatic would come back here once he’d escaped? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Willow turns to look at Adam and it’s like someone has unscrewed her valve, letting all her air escape. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Park was under orders to follow Shin around, every working day became a marathon session of whispered escape preparations and motivational stories about the fine dining that awaited them in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They tried to hide it by putting their hands over their mouths, but their laughter escaped through their fingers and fell tinkling onto the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Arryns kept the only dungeon in the realm where the prisoners were welcome to escape at will. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was like the light in Chartreuse liqueur, like the green flash, and I kept wondering, How did I escape? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Trey’s wavy hair escapes his ponytail; he looks like a slob. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m careful to keep my voice flat and not let the tiniest hint of sass escape my lips. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The only survivors are insects that have some inherent quality that allows them to escape harm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You could crawl through the slot and escape.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“But Milligan,” asked Sticky, “how will you escape? For that matter, how did you ever escape in the first place? I remember that Waiting Room—there was no way out!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The films were a wonderful diversion, a vivid escape from the bleakness of prison life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, the best I could hope for was to distract him, giving my friends a chance to escape; If anybody could think of a plan to get them out of there, Annabeth could. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My father commanded all the guards to shoot to kill if any of you tried to escape. I don’t think Chaol would ever have given that order,” he added, though he wasn’t sure why. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were bound to be angry with us now for escaping, and they’d want to hurt us to get even. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Foretelling is truth. A truth you will soon face. You seek to run. You seek to abandon your duty. But you cannot escape your destiny.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I notice the vials of healing salve and pain medicine on the bedside table and shove them in my pocket, just in case we do manage to escape. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Paine, you didn’t need to escape. They were getting ready to evict you.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Keep her in a cage, or a sealed room, like this one, and her magic cannot be used to escape. While under confinement they become fairly docile and obedient.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Screaming and wailing, the girls try to escape before fire consumes the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am special,” said the mouth on the screen, “because I can escape the time-field.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If they are caught inside, it will be hard to escape, but they count on the scarcity of migra checkpoints in northern Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With Booth’s injured leg, even working together, he and Herold could not dislodge a board so they could escape to the woods. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I never heard of an escape plan like that before," he said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They told me, but the sense of their words escaped. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin,” replied I, “it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim Yong had fled a prison that was not nearly as well guarded as the one where Shin and Park were planning their escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I’m not working four months like an escaped criminal. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After all that had befallen her, the shame of betraying those who made possible her escape. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was nothing worse than being in massive pain and stuck in the only path to possible escape because you were too big to fit through the hole others had already gone through. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It roared again and started toward Ron, who was nearest and had no way to escape. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, Dad took apart a fire escape—a real fire escape, from a building that his office was demolishing—and he rebuilt the bottom level of it inside my bedroom. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was fetched up by terror, and surveyed the street for escape, did this encounter become a beating. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The knot Otto made in the laces when I was trying to escape from Bouain was a convoluted mess, made worse by repeated bathings in river muck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The more powerful ones can do that. She did not die, Percy. She simply escaped. It is not good that the she-demons are stirring.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A Griever spun directly in his path; a boy, his face hidden from sight, was clutched in its claws, stabbing viciously into the thick, whalish skin, trying to escape. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Flat creatures cannot, on their own, escape their two dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They simply stood there in small groups, watching me and knowing for certain that there was no way I could escape. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They were lucky to escape with their lives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He started to talk about the accident but I concentrated on the escape method and the subject was dropped. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inner door opens, admitting him into the little air lock designed to keep patients from escaping. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Her escape had been a preposterous idea, but even a sliver of it amounted to the best adventure of her life. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Especially the part where she talked about a place to escape. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took the money my parents had saved for my education, and because we had no money left, Mama and I could not escape. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They said they shot you in Kaduna, then they said they buried you alive in the bush, then they said you escaped, then they said you were in prison in Lagos.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wails and screams that escaped from his tiny mouth sounded like those of a dying litter of meerkats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had thought for hours about ways to escape, from pretending to be violently ill to hiding behind the door with the television and throwing it onto Cabot’s head. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Kamau took the pipe again and inhaled, a small moan escaping him as another hit of the hallucinogenic leaf flooded through him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

For the second time, at this round table, in this fine house, with all of Emmett’s great pasta, Axel escapes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Ibtihaj, you don’t need to cry about this,” Abu said, smoothing down the stray hairs that had escaped from my braids. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“He has not escaped. He is dead. He died last night.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to clap my hand to my mouth to stop a yelp of surprise from escaping. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I felt sorry for him, yet I could not escape feeling that he enjoyed this. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first story was beige brick, and the second and third stories were yellow, with the fire escapes painted to match. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to roar, but not a sound escaped. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The zoo staff immediately started searching for the escaped bear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Long before President Nixon met his Waterloo over the Watergate burglary, he escaped from another tight spot with a magisterial speech, at the heart of which was a nakedly cheesy pathos appeal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to think of an escape plan. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Suzanne quietly escapes and comes back to stand with me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When she saw me, a little sound of surprise escaped her mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, we wondered if we could have helped them escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The morels are trying to escape the dying forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They would enable prisoners to make an escape attempt, An said, and shoot them before they reached the fences that surround the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That reminds me. What were you talking about the other day? About a place to escape?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The next day she found her husband, who had also miraculously escaped. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew it back with her fingers, but she was so engrossed in the reading that soon her hand dropped to the page and her hair escaped again, flying wildly in the wind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“There was no way for me to escape. With so many men holding me down, I could not even move,” Captain Smith says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Squid have two lines of defense: squirting ink and escaping quickly. They need a lot of oxygen to move away from predators. Maybe they have three hearts to keep up the oxygen supply.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s hard to escape it when we’re right on top of each other in the apartment. Malia and I can hear practically everything.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’d dreamed of escaping the stacks for as long as I could remember, and now it appeared that dream was about to come true. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Other men were pulled out of the ranks—prisoners who had done nothing but work alongside the men who’d run, prisoners who hadn’t tried to escape. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

How do you escape the real estate rule of location, location, location? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The words “law school” escaped from my mouth, the fallback answer for many students who have no idea what they want to do with their lives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"In all the chaos, some of the animals escaped from the Central Park Zoo. That one found me, and we've been looking out for each other ever since. I call her Qareen." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The breath escaped his lips in wheezing sighs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

At home on my fire escape, I could almost reach up and touch it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Driven by instinct and fright, Yossel and I ran, splitting off in different directions, barely escaping the shots. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Believing the outage was evidence of the Martian invasion, some townspeople packed up their families to escape into the mountains. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Those few peoples who remained hunter-gatherers into the 20th century escaped replacement by food producers because they were confined to areas not fit for food production, especially deserts and Arctic regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we stop under an iron fire escape, gasping for air. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Could his sister truly have escaped such captors? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The driver had a narrow escape, as a broken board penetrated his cabin and just missed his head. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When she was over the fence, she turned around to see what he’d do to escape himself, and he had walked right straight up to that cow and was rubbing her long nose! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

They are now both in front of her on the road, blocking any escape. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Still planning his escape, Cole again drifted off to sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I am Cinna’s bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Wormtail here, who had faked his own death to escape justice, was driven out of hiding by those he had once counted friends, and decided to return to his master. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like I can escape my head!” she said, tugging her hair. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was to escape that specter that their father had headed West. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girl pulled at the man, trying to give Wes a little room to escape. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Before she could comfort him, he changed into his wildcat shape and sprang down on the creature, batting it back from the edge of the roof, where it was crawling swiftly to escape. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It was only a coin trick. It’s not like he was doing an underwater escape.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There were few things that escaped Father’s notice, and even fewer things that Father was not interested in. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam is happy we’ll have loads of paper for lighting the fire though the wood we burn from that collapsing shed leaves a sickening smell and she worries the white maggots will escape and breed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The distinctive Cuban dimension in Latin American music that so inspired Stevie Wonder and others had only really escaped from its island home at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He told her that their escape would cause such a ruckus that there would be no need to alert his man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Four days had passed since they had escaped from the orcs, but the time lay behind them like an ever-darkening dream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I glanced around, trying to find in someone’s face or eyes the answer that had escaped me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners, and they surely are superior in escaping the devastating developmental disadvantages under which most children in industrialized societies now grow up. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To these people just off the train, we all must have looked like escaped mental-asylum patients with our shaved heads and our wooden shoes and oversized blue-and-gray-striped uniforms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If anything went wrong, if Blackie escaped or hurt a soul, White’s career would be over. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It didn’t escape Luke that he wouldn’t look him in the eye. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy toiled on with me at his elbow whenever I could escape to the laboratory with him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Dante kept telling the story about the man on the bus and the aliens in Roswell and how some had escaped to El Paso and were planning on taking over the transportation system. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ares or Aurora could escape, but the rest of them were sitting ducks. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I tell, Hannah? He is good, and he’s fond of me. Besides,” Kit’s voice was pleading, “if I don’t marry him, how shall I ever escape from my uncle’s house?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Above all he wanted to escape what he knew, escape the implications of what he had been told. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They declared, too, that the maidens they had imprisoned had all escaped to the mountains. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words were rushed; I was dying to escape to my room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Just enough of her hair had escaped to make her look fresh and full like a girl in a cigarette ad. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he was making his way back to his bed, he passed the room he’d been taken to as a prisoner the night he’d tried to escape Regalia. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All she had to do was fall asleep, and she could escape the frightening sounds of the night. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It yearns mightily for “freedom” and does all it can to escape. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All day she dreamed of escaping from Ayemenem and the clutches of her ill-tempered father and bitter, long-suffering mother. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Answer me! For you will not escape what is due to you, whatever you do!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

There she evacuated a group of loyal Dauntless—including Tobias— to a fire escape the Dauntless traitors had not sealed off. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the virus escaped and spread throughout the Yanomami heartland, carried by people who did not know they had been exposed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no one he could not imitate, no one who escaped the sharp humor of his gaze, no one about whom he could not make a joke. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had sold myself to the Devil and there could be no escape. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With what he calls “that quick detective intuition amounting almost to inspiration,” he knows that Booth’s escape options are limited. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Billy tries to escape and she drags him off the wall. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even when he was very ill and weak, the first days of our escape, he hid his face from me when he wept. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the escape of Ba’s tales, they could forget that Minli was not with them and imagine that she was there listening. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t count the times I’ve wondered if there have ever been any instances of condemned men escaping the relentless machinery, disappearing before the execution or breaking through the cordon of police. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

However, he was not altogether without hope, for he too had plotted an escape. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how in prison- escape movies they put bundled-up clothes under the blankets to make it look like there’s a person in there?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The other figure was that of a woman—a white woman, young and pretty with long, wavy hair and a small, delicate nose—running to escape the black brute’s outstretched arms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk, Kim tells us that once he heard the explosions coming from our direction, he escaped from his camp and ran here to find Chou. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that if and when I finally escaped from the stacks, I’d never look back. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only through skilled medical attention. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why does the bread-thief die and the murdering thane escape by a sleight by the costliest of advocates ? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I said I wanted a place to escape, but I don’t want to hang out in a closet full of cleaning stuff. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then he choked out: “Where? How? How could he escape? Where did he go?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Surely, if it was, at least one of them would have escaped. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As dashed-together escape plans replete with clues go, I thought it was pretty impressive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lyddie brushed back a curl that had escaped its plait and smoothed it against Rachel’s cheek. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few had escaped from the schools, and the stories they told were anything but heartwarming. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

No curtain of vines hiding a glowing cave for escape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My hijab’s askew with tufts of hair escaping around both ears. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Do you feel this? This is what it cost us to survive. We all paid with some part of ourselves. None of us escaped unbroken." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Laughter escapes my mouth as I check the clock, go to the bathroom, and have a cold shower. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave his rifle to an officer who had been disarmed in the fight and escaped with Amaranta through a nearby street to take her home. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I sensed that Malcolm was not confident he would succeed in escaping from the shadowy world which had held him in thrall. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite the fact that the figure seemed to run away from us, she is also sure that we made a narrow escape from certain death. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A scream escaped from the back of my throat and I dropped the little bottle. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“This” was the ridicule, which was a result of the interrogation, where he admitted that he joined Dauntless4# escape his father. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

May the Thunderhead help us all, if we ever need that escape. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Of course, we all nurtured the secret hope that somehow Tsalig had escaped and would be there waiting for us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

From now on he was an aeronaut no more, unless by some miracle he escaped with his life and found enough money to buy another balloon. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know why Shin had tipped off the school’s night guard about the escape plot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“When the alarm came” meant people leaping over fences in a mad dash to escape the police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slash escaped from London that night, and was soon back at sea. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only the tremendous surprise created by the Spaniards' firearms provided the opportunity to escape. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe, just maybe, I should walk down this fire escape and march myself over to Officer Khan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And they had to get away if they were going to escape the monster—although she was starting to doubt that there was a monster at all. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The credit for the survivors’ escape has landed squarely on Gale’s shoulders, although he’s loath to accept it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The speaker was the ogre who had warned of my escape. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you take the hippo with you when you escaped?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He looked up at her face, where some of the blond hair had escaped from the dark scarf she wore and lay against her cheeks. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moan escaped him as he pressed his palms against his head, trying to block out something she could not hear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They began by burying their dead in the graveyard at the foot of the volcano, which had miraculously escaped the wave of lava that had run down the sides of the evil mountain. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I treasure tales of escape, be they from Alcatraz or Nazi concentration camps or the dungeon in which Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo was unjustly imprisoned for fifteen years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So boring during the day and easy to escape at night. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“My mom just escaped again, and I think she headed into the mountains. We got to form another posse right now!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The executioner backed away from them, holding his pike at the ready in case one of them tried to escape. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Vu Lee asks what if Father escaped to France but can’t remember his own history, so he builds a new family and is happy? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The need for escape tugs at me harder than ever before. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mayor Matthews, him who plotted to kill General Washington, escaped from the rebel prison and returned to New York in triumph. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man escaping from Biddle Island would do better to try his luck with the river, the tides, and the sharks, than to test the quiet susurrant heart of the marsh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window frame I focus on the slivers of sparkly glass that escaped the vacuum. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His body is his escape from the world, whereas I’m trapped in mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they had wanted to flee, escape was now all but impossible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“And it was Bear who helped you escape.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of escape, but it mocked freedom. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Washington, for his part, obliged his Virginia critics by urging his stepgrandson to attend Harvard in order to escape the provincial versions of learning currently ascendant in the Old Dominion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If I don’t escape before they come back, I’ll be trapped in this frigid room all night. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

How could you escape a god standing only a few feet away? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The words escape from Tanisha’s mouth in one quick, low breath. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks were crowded with people; the foolhardy and curious stood in clumps watching the advancing flames, while others hurried along to escape them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I shot a girl. She’d failed her Trial and tried to escape the stadium. Chian screamed at me to shoot her ... and I listened.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Had her death given him the idea that there was such a thing as escape? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, though, I was just happy to have escaped. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Why wasn’t he threatening Klaus in anger, or tearing his hair out in frustration, or running to pack his clothes and escape? The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He is completely dependent upon David Herold to lead their escape into the South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And you recall how you plunged with the Founder, the Leader, deep into the black art of escape, guided at first, indeed, initiated, by the seemingly demented one who had learned his craft in slavery. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint memory tried to escape the locked box within his mind—shadows on the walls when he was a kid, scaring him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If he’d wanted to escape, he would have waited until dark, when he was away from everyone at the competition. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anyone caught trying to escape the ghetto was shot on sight. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few escaped to fall onto the dirt, but most of them she kept inside. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The sketches on the fliers Terrance had printed after their escape were crudely drawn but resembled them enough that any savvy hunter would look at her twice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You were under a lot of pressure. I know how that feels. When we played the escape game, Charles Chiltington put so much pressure on me I thought I might turn into a diamond.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Joe and the others took my advice about not attempting the escape, but he decided the note should be saved as a historical document, and it later turned up at a very unfortunate time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lizzie, for instance, had been hiding out at East River for close to two years, having narrowly escaped capture by PSFs who had pulled her parents’ car over in Maryland. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Gunwoo’s family had escaped from the North and lost many members to the Russians and North Korea’s KPA, Korean People’s Army. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He understood that he would have to escape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not now I’ve brought Boots back. Not after I told you that it was me who let him escape. You can’t hurt Julius now. It would be too cruel. Too unjust.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Anger swallowed me and I could not escape it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

‘If we don’t leave -’ ‘Don’t think about escape!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thinking that his escape route had been cut off, he returned to the bus—a reasonable course of action, given his topographical ignorance. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You just turned and kept walking, getting closer and closer to the doors leading outside, closer to your escape. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

If not, exactly how old did one have to be to escape it? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I realize if I’m going to have a chance for escape, even the jungle may not hide me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After clearing that obstacle, Kyle quickly ducked left to escape the gaping jaws of a lunging Tyrannosaurus rex. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Few mortals have ever done this and survived: Orpheus, who had great music skill; Hercules, who had great strength; Houdini, who could escape even the depths of Tartarus. Do you have these talents?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

If June is planning to help me escape, she sure is pushing her luck to the limits. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Around the time that Shin and Park were formulating their escape plan, the North Korean government concluded that the border had become far too porous and posed a threat to internal security. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But the thought quickly escaped my mind, as greater things presented themselves for my attention. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Past the event horizon the pull of a black hole’s gravity is so strong—and space is so curved—that nothing can escape, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

While trying to escape, she stepped into the pot of scalding-hot beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In another, misfortune had merely bided time: There was no escape. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The lightweight hydrogen gas should, because of Titan’s low gravity, rapidly escape to space by a violent process known as “blowoff,” which should carry the methane and other atmospheric constituents with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the boys had owned up to the crime they might have escaped some of the punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our chances of escaping lung disease may be 95 percent; dementia, 90 percent; cancer, 80 percent; and heart disease, 75 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drove home that night having escaped the Slammer by the skin of her last glove. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The assassin understood that the odds of escape were against him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he managed to escape, he was covered with dreadful bruises. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I’d heard the grunt of exertion escape his lips as the blow landed, seen the momentary bulge of his eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I had access to the OASIS, which was like having an escape hatch into a better reality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I drifted in and out of sleep, that blessed escape from hunger. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hears the shot and escapes but when he learns at dawn how Bess died he goes into a rage and returns for revenge only to be shot down by the redcoats. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The name escaped his lips before he could stop himself. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Not a speck escaped Aunt March’s eye, and all the furniture had claw legs and much carving, which was never dusted to suit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don’t have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘They will make it yet. They will escape,’ thought Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She then escaped, and in 2009 found her way out of North Korea to South Korea, via China, Laos, and Thailand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He yelled around the house, into the front yard, and into the van, covering all sounds of a small escape in the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Her terror is so great her body flees before her eyes are ready to find the route of escape. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My waking, eating, and, even though I resist the impulse to try and escape the bed, being knocked out again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He looks around furtively, like an escaped convict keeping an eye out for the police. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He escaped them and ran northward over the land towards the Ice, outrunning all who pursued him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wild joy at their escape from the very mouth of despair suddenly filled all his mind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The evidence pointed to Booth’s guilt, but not to how he planned to make his escape. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Kelton is like an animal in a trap, and he’s ready to chew off his own foot to escape. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he turns it, the swing itself rises and the top of the cage opens, allowing them to climb out, escaping into a dimly lit temple guarded by an albino Sphinx. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the prisoner had convinced himself that the young men, possibly motivated by a desire for adventure, meant to help him escape. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had several today, and one at the rest stop after I thought the guy was going to kill me in the bathroom; when he was only handing me Libby’s brilliant escape note. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the more sober ones helped her to escape. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They escaped from time to time and gave him a certain amount of annoyance, but he refused to kill them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Tallmadge escaped unharmed but lost a saddlebag full of secret papers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would forbid his entry, or his escape. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Abandoned pieces of furniture on the street and sidewalk were fiery torches, while shadowy figures darted through the night seeking a safe escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible she escaped to one of the giant communities still existing in foreign mountain ranges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be polite,” said Theresa, scooping Callie up before she escaped to the hall. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sound, something between a squeak and a gasp, escaped her lips. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids were climbing fences and scaling fire escapes of strangers’ houses, just to see what they could see. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Doubtless there were several additional dinners, clandestine meetings, and secret sessions that have escaped the historical record. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Villagers ran blindly into the fire, trying to escape and screaming for mercy, only to be felled by the terrible fire weapons of the strangely pale men. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had been looking for the same book she’d just found, that meant he was playing the library escape game along a similar path. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I tried to figure the whos and the whys of the matter, but my own name escaped me, and I knew only the pain in my head and the iron taste of lost teeth. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

To escape from Filch’s office without punishment was probably some kind of school record. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His boat and his knowledge of the Potomac’s currents are vital to their escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their parents, in many cases, had been raised in city neighborhoods, but it was as if they had made a clean break, an escape. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was the same area I’d run through trying to find the Wayne train station, trying to escape. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He looked around miserably, like a trapped animal searching for a way to escape. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, playing the license plate game only made me feel both terrified and like I wanted to jump out of a moving vehicle to escape. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

En route to Thomas Garrett’s in Wilmington they met a young woman who was also escaping, and she joined the party. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the mother tiger escaped and swam to their island, she could kill several people before the rangers could tranquilize her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Black holes are so dense that if you get too close—past the so-called event horizon—the escape velocity is faster than the speed of light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Although it was a crime to talk about escaping from Camp 14, it was not against the rules to fantasize about what life would be like if the government were to set you free. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

After I escaped from Fake Uncle and Snake Man, a part of me has been running nonstop, and time has been running with me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Go, go, go. There will never be another opportunity for a mouse to escape from my kitchen unharmed. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

"I love reading fiction to escape," I say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Not one stinking word,” he snarls as if we have already begun our escape. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Ana managed to escape the house unscathed, and Ash watched the front door close on her velvet-and-feather-and-silk ensemble with relief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the estuary a tight woven school of small fishes glittered and broke water to escape a school of great fishes that drove in to eat them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were warned this would happen to us if we tried to escape,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tried holding my breath in, but air bubbles tickled my nostrils, and more escaped my lips. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One night, during the course of a week darkened by somber rumors, he miraculously escaped four revolver shots taken at him by an unknown party as he was leaving a secret meeting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried about the escape route to the harbor. I don’t like that there’s only one way out.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She told about Cole burning the supplies, trying to escape, and being mauled. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He ran in an agonizingly circuitous pattern, weaving and stumbling, falling once, but immediately on his feet again, running slowly, unable to escape anything. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s to prevent him from escaping again? Couldn’t he just force some giant or something to take the sky for him?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

After a while, I begged homework and escaped to my room. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

You didn’t “escape” from the army, so he must have escaped from something else. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But no one escapes the consequences of their errors, and your father has made many. It started when he married that woman.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted a quick escape in case . . . well, whatever. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was escaping, but he was left behind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That his foolproof life plan had in the end transported him here, to this nightmarish station, was an irony that brought me no pleasure and escaped his notice altogether. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could not go on, especially after that Champion’s attempted escape the other day. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The tree whose leaf umbrellas had curled around, under and over her fire escape had been cut down because the housewives complained that wash on the lines got entangled in its branches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he chased her around the house after supper until she escaped into her room, breathless with laughter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the turtles push their way out of the sand and start waddling toward the water's edge, they look like a bunch of wind-up toys escaped from Toys "R" Us. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I only plotted the escape from the fire above. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never call me. You don’t realize how agile an illegal escaped Nexus-6 is, how impossible it’ll be for you. We feel we owe you this because of—you know. What we did.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He packed Us scanty traps, not understanding what had happened, but feeling that he had escaped calamity by a hairbreadth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood became darker, a labyrinth of clotheslines, rusty fire escapes, and brick walls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to use your fire escape to climb back into my bedroom,” she whispered back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Robert escaped me and cut down Rhaegar on the Trident. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tears were sliding down my cheeks—runaways that escaped when I wasn't paying attention. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A cry escaped Mark’s lips before he could help it, and shock froze him solid. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As though he had escaped his everyday life and wandered into another world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would have been difficult to escape the White House. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas felt tears swell under his eyelids; one escaped and trickled down his right temple, into his hair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He swaggered back to the fire escape, his pirate sword swinging from his belt loop. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Most went voluntarily, glad to be able to take a few of their possessions with them and relieved to escape the constant harangues and threats of the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

You could hang suspended in some odd, almost lovely land you could not escape from yet almost didn’t want to leave. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve lost everything: the companionship of his ideals, and the secret escape I held in reserve, if my own failed completely. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, just two people other than Shin are known to have escaped from any political prison camp in North Korea and made it to the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was never a way to escape it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

This year’s skit tells the story of a boy in the Philippines whose bahay kubo gets caught in a flood, but the neighbors help his family escape by carrying the house to safety. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We spake it during supper, as once, at the inception of our Regiment, all told the tales of escape; now we tell the tales of the return of soldiers to bondage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But “what?” is the only word that escapes me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When she got to the part about the slaves touching Our Lady’s heart and how she filled them with fearlessness and plans of escape, June turned up the volume. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one report I had heard from men escaped or released from Voluntary Farms. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

At this critical moment, when they needed to escape Maryland as quickly as possible, they did something unexplainable—they did nothing! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way they could possibly have escaped. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ninety and had no more miraculous escapes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The stale smoky air was better than the air he’d escaped from. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

But nothing sent chills up and down Thomas’s spine like the haunted, deathly moans that somehow escaped the creature when it sat still, like the sound of dying men on a battlefield. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But many of the strongest and most desperate got out on the west side, and attacked their enemies fiercely, being now more bent on killing than escaping. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The twofold challenge he faces is the traditional assassin’s plight: find the most efficient path into the state box and then find the perfect escape route from the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I think about escaping into the hanging suits, joining the men in mourning until the egg-timer goes off, but then Heather bumps into me and laughs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She’d taught me to always think of a way out, an escape route, and getting this deep into something made getting back out a whole lot trickier. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us were gripped with shock, Alyssa was already calculating our escape. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now it stood before him, staring, nevermore to be escaped, and its mouth was enlarged without any limit. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He rushed to the washroom on the seventh floor, sadly in a removed area of the building without a local fire escape, sealing his fate in a stall idled with his own anxious stench. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The volunteer police reported that escaped turkeys had attacked a passing Amish buggy and driver, so we all needed to keep an eye on our turkey pens. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Harry spent most of the afternoon in his bedroom; he couldn’t stand watching Aunt Petunia peer out through the net curtains every few seconds, as though there had been a warning about an escaped rhinoceros. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But there was no quick and easy escape. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent a third of my life traveling from the place of my birth to the North just to talk freely, to escape the pressure of fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no way of escaping other than by turning himself into a smooth stone, which he did. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There were no more stories after that, and no more escapes—at least, not into the orchard, or anywhere outside his own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As Atzerodt walked along Booth’s escape route just two blocks from Ford’s Theatre, he tossed his knife under a wood carriage step, into the gutter. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny and Neeley went through the next-door cellar into the yard, helped each other over the board fence into their own yard and climbed up on the fire escape. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he gave it his all, the jaguar escaped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I go to visit them I can escape into the forest world I know so well and love so much. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As TRIGON's value as a spy grew, so did Marti's special status as the only CIA agent who had escaped the notice of KGB watchers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Just in case, I grab an umbrella and figure the back door is my best chance of escaping unseen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A wisp of steam escaped the pot's spout, and she found that she could smell it, spicy and floral amid the earthier scents of the river. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was no escaping, none, from these spongy intangible fingers that pulled him on, on, on, irresistibly insistent, coaxing, maternal. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don’t escape to somewhere but from something. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

How in the world had I let that piece of information escape? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Through this gate doubtless they had all escaped this day and were hidden here and there through the streets, listening to the howling in their courts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The only activity she kept up were her nocturnal escapes out the window when she had a rendezvous with Pedro Tercero down by the river. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the pieces were there, but the puzzle of fitting them together was escaping me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“My parents. They were killed trying to escape a plantation. After they’d left me with someone to smuggle me up north.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let us hope that he will escape back to the caves. There he would be safe for a while. Safer than we. Such a refuge would be to the liking of a dwarf.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ‘escape’ may have been allowed or arranged, and well known in the Dark Tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When the door to my cell opens, I bolt toward the sound, determined to escape into the hallway beyond. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

All I know is, even on a day off, I can’t escape the fear of that man. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Potato insects are escaping chemical control in many sections of the United States. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Matthew proceeded to jump repeatedly, not even coming close to reaching the fire escape, but he kept jumping nonetheless. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I’m going to help John escape tonight, I’d better make sure I keep Thomas feeling good about our relationship. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My theft complete, I descended the stairs as softly as I might and passed silently through the parlor towards the back of the house and escape. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The small bathroom contained a huge, full-length mirror behind the door, and so I could not escape the reflection of my naked self as I leaned in to turn on the shower faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

My favorite time of day was always dinner, when each of us was around the wooden table in the dining room, with warm aromas escaping from the hot dishes in the center. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A few last chuckles escaped him as he took the crutch from Tree-ear and leaned on it to sit on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Amari twisted to escape, she found herself face-to-face with Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had no place to escape to with Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot ember of guilt burned in his mind, and his thoughts flew back to the night of their escape. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

This is not about the water; it is about my inability to escape the tank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“In a way, I think he sent a message through Thanatos. My name wasn’t on that list of escaped souls. It should have been.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I headed for the door, had almost escaped when Hank came out of the storeroom. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The idiom brings to mind the menacing gape of a predator, reinforcing our gratitude for being alive: to come into existence we narrowly escaped a mortal threat, namely the high odds against it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lord Balon had let no word of the hosting escape the Iron Islands, and Theon's bloody work along the Stony Shore would be put down to sea raiders out for plunder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Not much at all. Fight the Grievers, punch in the code, escape through the door. Then we deal with the Creators—whatever it takes.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the atmospheric disturbances that followed Lord Asriel’s escape from his exile on Svalbard, she and her companions were blown far from the island and many miles out over the frozen sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not believe in his own escape. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Not to mention borderline creepy that I had to escape my own car. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So we look like normal people, not ones escaped from a river crossing. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her escape and dived into it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really? That’s the desperate hero, risking his life for a chance to escape the mighty Roc?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

You have never been able to escape the pounding of a thousand other hearts that have outlived yours by thousands of years. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A spluttering laugh escaped before Ayanna could stop it, and she rolled her eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I’d at least have a chance to somehow escape, and even if I couldn’t, feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn’t it? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How was she going to escape this life? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would have found some accounts of escapes in them. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them were the darkened streets, where Count Olaf had escaped to plan more treachery. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

This might be applauded, since we generally admire those who can escape taxes, were it not that the burden of this freedom falls with increasing weight on others. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts the lid of the pan on the stove, and steam escapes, along with the rich, juicy smell of chicken saltimbocca—little jelly rolls of chicken breast stuffed with spinach and prosciutto. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to be Hiram Wallace, an islander who had escaped. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to have already crawled through my escape hatch into whatever world lay beyond. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You know,” he said irritably, “the deer really hasn’t escaped. This just means some other guy will bag him.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She watched animals, birds, and insects which disguised themselves as leaves or twigs or other animals to escape from things that could hurt them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Wait and see if they show up? Maybe they’ll escape.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day wore on, and when afternoon faded towards evening they were still scrambling along the ridge and had found no way of escape. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This was my chance, the chance for the freedom I always should have had, the chance to escape from my stepfamily, the chance to win Char back. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now that she lay captive beneath him, he wondered how he would ever escape her without leaving himself vulnerable. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If the authorities came after him in Zurich, he could probably make an escape before they arrived. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Atawallpa dug his way out, escaped to Ecuador, reassembled his army, and drove his foes south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But now she saw that her brother was trying to escape his grief in a way she hadn’t expected; and she was no longer content to be quiet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had bought the chain long enough so that she could hide it down the front of her shirt, but it had apparently escaped. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The sun escaping from the breaking clouds, as it sank towards the hills they had left, was now shining brightly again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Harry’s parents had died in Voldemort’s attack, but Harry had escaped with his lightning scar, and somehow — nobody. understood why — Voldemort’s powers had been destroyed the instant he had failed to kill Harry. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The Führer is offering a means of escape and they refuse to leave their lands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I took on the disguise of a polite young lady, I could often escape her closer scrutiny. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The clouds were thin today, a few streaks of sunlight escaping through far away in the west. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Words were etched on the glass; Thomas could barely read them: Let this half-shank be a warning to all: You can’t escape through the Box Hole. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His trembling hand and the big scar on the underside of his arm were the result of a narrow escape from an attack—but not from a wild beast. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t escape the curse by marrying Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was a remarkable turning point: Gandhi escaped the cycle of violence breeding violence; he challenged poor workers to show wealthy masters that there is a better way. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I glance round, seeing where escape might lie. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many, if not most, defectors arriving at Hanawon escaped North Korea with the help of brokers based in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Two weeks had gone by since the night of the storm, the night of Mae Tuck’s escape. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they would help the other person escape through the cellars of the castle, with some hard bread, a wheel of dried fig, some dried beef. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You just have to pretend that you’re trying to escape from international diamond smugglers.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My breath escaped in a thin whimper before I could stop myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He struggled to escape, twisting and flailing like Nero when he didn’t want to be held. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mullet Fingers had escaped through a window in the women’s restroom, next door to the X-ray department. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashley Jones was a fourteen-year-old girl who had been convicted of killing two family members when her older boyfriend tried to help her escape her family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now colored folks like Ophie and her mother, historically in bondage, exercised the freedom they did have to make their way to the city, escaping the chokehold of Jim Crow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had run the gauntlet of flames, risked his life several times in a futile effort to locate his young nieces and nephew, and barely managed to escape. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

While he might trust her enough to leave her alone with Dorian, knowing that she had access to an unguarded escape route was a test she wasn’t ready to give Chaol. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although the big scar and trembling hand were a constant reminder of his narrow escape from death, Cherrie didn’t let it bother him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But he’d had enough left over to set himself up as a labor broker selling slots into the very heavy crews that he’d escaped. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven of the most dangerous convicts—including two Al Spencer Gang members and a bandit who was nicknamed Boxcar, because of his giant size—were attempting to escape. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The town would be sealed against the vacuum of space, and very little air or water would be allowed to escape. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the beginning of my escape fund. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I performed a few final tasks related to my escape plan, then logged out of the IOI intranet for the last time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It took him a moment to realize she was thinking of the competitor who had been killed while trying to escape. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The music was her voice, and the dance was her only means of escape. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had Daedalus, a great architect and inventor, construct a place of confinement for him from which escape was impossible. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid such a picture of death and destruction, the young salmon themselves could hardly have been expected to escape, and they did not. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Imp was clever enough to have conspired in his own escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Not only is there no escape, there is no land to escape to. They have stolen that as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could he escape Washington, its streets filled with thousands of soldiers and loyal citizens, all there to celebrate the end of the Civil War? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I regretted saying this the moment it escaped from my lips, of course: I felt like such a fake. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was worried at the thought of the narrow escape that she had had, but he was relieved that she was now safe. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"The tortoise must never escape," they heard him mutter to himself as they panted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It will be deeper in the wolfswood... and out on the kingsroad, where the wind is blowing, there will be no escape from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to catch all those feelings before they escaped and force them down. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I yell, yearning, trying to escape her grasp. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hoping he could get more information about the best escape route, he called New York City’s police headquarters. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were taken off onto small snows and brigs, if that they could afford; and others, finding no route of escape upon the water, fled the town by land, praying for mercy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He blocks my escape, moving in front of the steps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mother must remember the incident on the fire escape landing, where she found me, shivering and exhausted, sitting next to that container of regurgitated ice cream. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid the woman she had to tiptoe down the hall like a mouse trying to escape the hungriest of cats. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, the word escape’ was radical, too, I tell you!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Simple, little pinch of mortality: If you aim true, you’ll escape this illusion. If you don’t, well, you’ll die. Don’t worry, we can make this whole ordeal go much more quickly. Watch.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Twice more Tidbit was tossed into the bloody water, and twice more he barely escaped the jaws of the hungry alligators. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet she wishes she had written an escape clause into the prenup. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Which was probably why he was the first one the camp controllers shot in the back of the head the night the kids tried to make their escape. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After another minute, though, it was still just her and me, so I said, “Well, let’s wait on the fire escape at least. It’s covered, so we can get out of the rain.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This was the way he had traveled after escaping the League, how he had navigated through most of Virginia—how he hoped to get home. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

With the help of the ring he escaped from the orc-guards at the gate and rejoined his companions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s like the only people who escaped the catastrophe above them are hardened criminals. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“My father says they were to go to Calaculla as prisoners of war. But some of the rebels tried to escape on the journey, and...” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Apprehensively, she said, “There’s a fine; I’m the property, the legal property, of the association. I’m not an escaped android who fled here from Mars; I’m not in the same class as the others.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As for Thomas and the rest of those committed to the escape, there was a ton of work to be done. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And I'm not looking to escape, only to fill my lungs with air. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The entire plan had been dreamed up by BOSS, even the rumors that reached me about the ANC’s planning an escape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They come to Phnom Penh to escape the Khmer Rouge, who still control parts of the countryside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How the hell did you escape from IOI with all of this stuff? ” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘There will be no escape again, if we do not contrive it. How that is to be done cannot be guessed, but first we must overtake them.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He actually announced this during class—“Natalie, can I speak to you for a moment?”—which not only was embarrassing but also meant there was no way to escape. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They—her breasts—were the images saved for last on the many nights when he touched himself, slowly at first and then vigorously until a muffled moan escaped him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This sack allowed its liquor to escape, and it gradually flowed over the whole road. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The caption explained that she fell down stairs in her rush to escape when she heard that the poisonous smoke had reached Times Square. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Though he had not attempted escape, nor offered violence to his captors, he would ignore their commands oft as not or reply with muttered curses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All my moments which were not consumed with efforts to escape the cold were absorbed with morbid Poe-like fancies. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There is no such thing as freedom, Amari. I tried to escape several times. Each time I was caught by their dogs, beaten, and then sold. You will be caught as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later the sinking moon escaped from the pursuing cloud, but it was ringed all about with a sickly yellow glare. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Abnegation turned out to be no better, in some ways. It seems there’s no escaping the reach of genetic damage. Even the Abnegation leadership was poisoned by it.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By my second year, it was natural for me to spend a typical day mediating between Frederick Douglass’s integration into America and Martin Delany’s escape into nationalism. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The words rolled out of her mouth like they had been waiting to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It sounded like gas escaping from a bottle of soda. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But desperate as that road might be, his task was now far worse: not to avoid the gate and escape, but to enter it, alone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Thousands of families had become separated in the mad scramble to escape the flames. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

All Etruria had finally risen against him, but he had succeeded in escaping. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he wrote in his memoir, Long Road Home, he could never have escaped from Camp 14 because “the guards there acted as if they were on a war front.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“These men . Breuer began, “these pieces of, in your Jew language, drek tried to escape last night. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors of the Slammer are kept locked, the air is kept under negative pressure, and your telephone calls are monitored—because people have emotional breakdowns in the Slammer and try to escape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put a glass lid on a pot of lamb, adjusting it so only the slightest bit of steam could escape. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Both of them, like almost everyone in the small village, had come from another place, had fled something, had escaped from hardship of some kind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A crowd had formed around three slaves taken whilst trying to escape. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But we needed to stay together because we had a better chance of escaping the day-to-day troubles we faced. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was powerful enough that Dandy wanted to move back to Georgetown, even though as a young man he'd needed to escape it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Hurry! He went around the mill. Head him off. He mustn’t escape.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was an avid abolitionist, who helped Frederick Douglass escape from federal marshals in 1859. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Artemis Fowl and his cohorts could not have escaped. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You went to a farm yesterday and escaped from a cat. And whatever you were up to, it was so much on your mind that you forgot to ask about Holly last night.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was completely surrounded; there seemed to be no escape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to escape the racial attack that went to the roots of my life, I would have gladly accepted any way of life but the one in which I found myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She escaped by never taking her right hand off the walls of the maze, sliding it along as she walked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then of a sudden he truly hated her guts and Joe’s guts for holding him up, for jamming him back into a corner from which there could apparently be no escape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These foul bald-headed females are child-killers every one of them, and here I am imprisoned in the same room and I can't escape! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

If he tried to escape, he said, they should shoot to kill. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For escape from this world by retreating so far into my own head, I never had to question whether it was real or not. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“What can I do for you today?” she asked, her cheeks rosy as if she’d just escaped a tickle attack. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The starboard wing was heavily engaged, however, and the center had shattered under the stones of those trebuchets, some captains tinning downstream, others veering to port, anything to escape that crushing rain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could no more escape than I could think of my identity. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost they began to hope that they would escape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was, and would be throughout the entirety of my time in the White House, a balm for my spirit, a way to momentarily escape my First Lady worries, my self-consciousness about constantly being judged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few people cheered, assuming Davis had escaped his fate momentarily. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Also, Galindez had already escaped to New York so everyone thought he was safe. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A perfect place to start a fire and make a hasty escape. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They found a temple all slimy and moss-grown, but not quite in ruins, and there they gave thanks for their escape and prayed for help in their dreadful loneliness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them try to sneak off the train when it stops at a small station, but only a few manage to escape unnoticed and find a place to hide. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A Republic agent is going to help me escape. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Although the Coalhicans escaped into the hills, their chief was reminded at the supper table that night that the mine was for work, not play. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the two thieves descended the fire escape, I called down to them, “If you want to find honest work, go to Hull House on Halsted Street. They’ll be able to help you.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And all around these neatly lettered words, scribbles had been added by other witches and wizards who had come to see the place where the Boy Who Lived had escaped. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you are thinking it would be easy to escape into the darkness. There are nine levels. Three hundred kilometers of tunnels. Maybe you are thinking we would never find you.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not after our failed escape attempt, and certainly not after Chubs had rained down a verbal hailstorm on Clancy. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She lifted the window and clambered, barefoot, out onto the fire escape. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

So one has a set of events, a region of space-time, from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces with squaws and children, dogs, and all their possessions, retreated under heavy fire for over a thousand miles, trying to escape to Canada. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, with what he’s done to help us escape, he’s sealed his fate. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fighters rolled onto the floor, right to the fire door, where I had no doubt Rachel and Ema would make their escape. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Something about them reminds me of the pigeons that perch on the railing of the fire escape outside our apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He figured this close escape from death was God’s way of telling him, “Shuttlesworth! I am with you for the duration of this!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, his struggle is the reverse of an actor’s struggle—he strives not to enter a part but to escape it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This would let them attack from two sides, and stop the Americans from trying to escape back to New York City. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I got my window open, I came back for my groceries, but before I could say thanks and good-bye, she started out onto the fire escape after me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did have a number of narrow escapes, however, which no one knew about. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how bright the beam is, if the light is the wrong color, all the electrons in the metal stay put; none of them can escape. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A strand of his hair escapes his ponytail, and I watch as he tucks it behind his ear. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He put his head down on the side of the bed to escape the terrible eyes, and he could still see them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen it all before ... the human mind’s escape valve. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just twice. The second time I came, she waited until Mrs. Janssen was gone again, and then she said there had been a notice in the newspaper and that she needed my help to escape.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

From the windows of condemned hotels, from fire escapes and balconies, from behind cars jacked up in front yards, they extended the barrels of their assorted guns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By late December, when Shin and Park were planning their escape, Shin’s winter-season pants had holes in the knees and in the seat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If it escaped, wouldn’t it flood the world and all the innocent people? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh!” she said, the sound escaping before she could pull it back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

In order to get to the escape route, we had to cross a wet and muddy swamp that was adjacent to a tiny hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The court is my escape and my paradise. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Those who escaped from being chopped to bits later died in horrid agony from smallpox the conquistadors spread to Mexico from Europe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each of them had attempted to escape from another prison at least once. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Alcatraz a bell rings every hour to remind the guards to count the cons and make sure no one’s escaped. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing—to feel like you would never escape the box people had put you in. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My brain escapes through my left nostril and goes feral. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The old brickmaker broke in to say, “No. That was the work of healthy men, running to escape the flux.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It started around the edges of his vision, it clutched at his chest, and he couldn’t see an escape route. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield had escaped. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t magically immune to cute guys, and it had not escaped my notice that Ocean was a superlative kind of good-looking. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She is convinced that any day one of them will burst into the house with a gun and turn out to be an escaped lunatic.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could not escape her anymore than I could outrun my shadow. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to escape. It's better here than it was in them woods. I don't want to eat no worms. Here, sprinkle some flour on the board." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Canadian harpooner Ned Land has found his window for escape. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s not so important to escape them.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She scrambled up onto the platform, clapping her hands over her head, Dr. Fanning lunging at but missing her as she escaped onto center stage. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tangled in each other, they couldn’t escape from the tarp’s canvas hold fast enough, and Sigurd wrapped them back up in it like a picnic lunch, forming a bag around them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A giggle escaped when I saw the screen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Good Horatio, hear me out. I mean to escape with my life, though all will think me dead. I have a plan, but it needs your help.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You can escape from it whenever you choose. Everything depends on yourself.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The small revolver Vic has smuggled in for him—just in case—is wrapped snugly in an extra shirt, a dark colored shirt, and a dark colored pair of pants for escaping at night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had waited so long for this moment that I wanted to savor it, but I also didn’t want to give him a chance to escape. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been about to create a dramatic story about his escape. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, you’re a general faced with a decision between two escape routes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re supposed to close your eyes or exit toward the back, but as we are in the middle of a long row, I figure it’s pretty much impossible to escape. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher had not received any credit from his superiors for uncovering the escape plot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I retreat, keeping distance close enough to escape attack. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A black moth on a moonless night would not have escaped Shadow’s notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z