At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.

A group of " Mabden " ( men ) led by the savage Earl Glandyth-a-Krae raid the family castle and slaughter everyone with the exception of Corum, who escapes.

After having his left hand cut off and right eye put out, Corum escapes by moving into another plane of existence, becoming invisible to the Mabden.

At a strip club, he is captured by pig-cops, but escapes the alien-controlled penitentiary and tracks down the alien cruiser responsible for the invasion in the San Andreas Fault.

In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.

Montag leaves Faber's house and escapes the manhunt by jumping into a river and floating downstream into the countryside.

On one evening when she is coming home from the mill, Scarlett is accosted by two men who attempt to rob her, but she escapes with the help of Big Sam, the former negro foreman from Tara.

( A story was later circulated that, to prevent further escapes, Henry had Robert's eyes burnt out: this is not accepted by Henry's recent biographer, Judith Green.

De Bois-Guilbert escapes with Rebecca while Isaac is released from his underground dungeon by the Clerk of Copmanhurst.

* In Alexandre Dumas ' The Three Musketeers, d ' Artagnan escapes prosecution for the death of Milady by means of an ambiguously worded lettre de cachet given to Milady for her own use by the Cardinal de Richelieu.

However, Luthor escapes after receiving a power ring fueled by the orange light of avarice and becomes a deputy of the Orange Lanterns.

* 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.

He returns home posthaste, uncovers the real plot behind the charges, and escapes trial by gaining the Emperor's approval to enlist the Dendarii ( secretly and without the mercenaries themselves aware of it ) into the Imperial forces.

The 8. 8 MeV / 202. 5 MeV = 4. 3 % of the energy which is released as antineutrinos is not captured by the reactor material as heat, and escapes directly through all materials ( including the Earth ) at nearly the speed of light, and into interplanetary space ( the amount absorbed is miniscule ).

Nearly all nasal consonants are nasal occlusives, where air escapes through the nose but not through the mouth, as it is blocked ( occluded ) by the lips or tongue.

In another time-travel tale, The Shield of Time, a " time policeman " from the Twentieth Century, equipped with information and technologies from much further in the future, is outwitted by a medieval knight and barely escapes with his life.

These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODESSA, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS.

He escapes the robot-controlled scow by repairing an old ship, the Aluminum Mallard ( a play on Howard Hughes ' " Spruce Goose " and Star Wars ' Millennium Falcon ).

She escapes from Leatherface by jumping through a second-floor window and flees to the gas station.

Landolfo Ruffolo is reduced to poverty, turns corsair, is captured by Genoese, is shipwrecked, escapes on a chest full of jewels, and, being cast ashore at Corfu, is hospitably entertained by a woman, and returns home wealthy.

" The portion of Andreuccio being trapped in the tomb of the archbishop and how he escapes comes from the Ephesian Tale by Xenophon of Ephesus, which was written in about 150 AD.

* In the book's ending, Hayes was moved to another prison on an island from which he escapes eventually, by swimming across the lake and then traveling by foot as well as on a bus to Istanbul and then crossing the border into Greece.

Fulvius, Maciste and Cabiria are ambushed by the Priest ’ s henchmen as they attempt to flee the city the next morning, but Fulvius escapes by leaping spectacularly from a high precipice and swimming away.

Stripe escapes and leaps into a swimming pool, creating hundreds of new gremlins who go on a rampage through the town.

The first is his estate, called Palmyra, which houses a giant swimming pool filled with sharks ; Bond is later be thrown into this pool, but of course escapes.

Marfa escapes by running into the river and swimming past Andrei ’ s boat.

After a series of dialogue, Carey escapes her Griffin's character and dives into a swimming pool from the mansion's roof.

She walked out of a holding camp, beginning a series of escapes and arrests across the chaotic landscape.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

* August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

Kumawakamaru escapes his pursuers by swinging across the moat on a bamboo.

The Duke of York narrowly escapes across a brook

In it a chimpanzee escapes after being injected with a plague bacillus and is hunted across the country.

Just then, the police arrive to arrest him, but Davey escapes and boards a bus to New York, just as the police are searching for him across Dukesberry.

On the train ride across the country, von Werra escapes near Smiths Falls, Ontario by opening and jumping from a window while the guards are distracted.

Hawkeye, Uncas and Chingachgook come across the attack as Magua escapes and save Duncan, Cora and Alice, deciding to escort them to the fort.

Once again she escapes, coming across a logging community and later a mining city headed by Deren Beq.

After the army narrowly escapes across the river to the Pennsylvania shore, Washington, realizing that something must be done or the Revolution will collapse, conceives a plan to cross the river and conduct a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton.

Griffin and Madison manage to escape San Francisco and begin chasing Cassandra across the United States, eventually cornering her in Washington, D. C .. Cassandra, however, escapes with Brandon to Great Britain ; Griffin and Madison follow.

As Chris and Sheva make their way aboard the tanker, they come across Excella, who escapes, but drops a case of syringes.

He escapes, triggering a pursuit extending across the entire series, with Chirico hunted by the army and criminals alike as he seeks the truth behind the operation.