He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

Here the Pennsylvania militia skirmished with the British, but soon fled.

Then the youths fled with his money.

In 1929, the Ainu of Kurile Lake fled to the island of Paramushir after an armed conflict with the Soviet authorities.

From there she negotiated with the emperor for the safety of family members left in the capital, while protesting her sons ' innocence of hostile actions ; under the falsehood of making a vesperal visit to worship at the church, she deliberately excluded the grandson of Botaneiates and his loyal tutor, met with Alexios and Isaac and fled for the forum of Constantine.

Alfonso fled to Álava to live with his maternal relatives.

Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.

To avoid the vengeance of the Emperor, she fled with Andronikos to the court of Nur ad-Din, the Sultan of Damascus ; but not deeming themselves safe there, they continued their perilous journey through the Caucasus and Anatolia.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

He left his young son with his sisters and fled with Yahiya.

Although his father, Afzal Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Sher Ali, the son's behavior in the northern province soon excited the Amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bukhara.

The only one of the priests to escape from Saul's massacre, he fled to David at Keilah, taking with him the ephod and other priestly regalies ( 1 Sam.

He was formerly identified with an Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria ( 389 ), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.

But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.

Petty king Zyraxes escaped with his treasure and fled over the Danube into Scythia to seek aid from the Bastarnae.

Current Chadian president Idriss Déby, revolted and fled to the Sudan, taking with him many Zaghawa and Hadjerai soldiers in 1989.

Many went to Nicaea, where Theodore Lascaris set up an imperial court, or to Epirus, where Theodore Angelus did the same ; others fled to Trebizond, where one of the Comneni had already with Georgian support established an independent seat of empire.

The king fled with his ducal ally to the land south of the Loire and Ragenfrid fled to Angers.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

Ma Buqing was another Muslim General who fled to Taiwan along with Chiang.

" In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head.

The miners rioted and Bentley and his wife Catherine fled for their lives as the hotel was burnt down by the angry mob.

Following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December, James and his wife fled the nation ; James, however, returned to London for a two-week period that culminated in his final departure for France on 23 December.

Unwilling to become an Italian puppet, King Zog, his wife, Queen Geraldine Apponyi, and their infant son Leka fled to Greece and eventually to London.

But his wife, against his will, like her brother King Christian of Denmark, became Lutheran, and in 1528 fled for safety to Saxony.

Alboin was murdered in 572 in Verona by a plot led by his wife, Rosamund, who later fled to Ravenna.

John of Fordun wrote that Duncan's wife fled Scotland, taking her children, including the future kings Malcolm III ( Máel Coluim mac Donnchada ) and Donald III ( Domnall Bán mac Donnchada, or Donalbane ) with her.

The King's brother Prince William ( the future King and Emperor William I ) had fled to England, and Bismarck intrigued with William's wife Augusta to place their teenage son ( the future Frederick III ) on the Prussian throne in King Frederick William IV's place — Augusta would have none of it, and detested Bismarck thereafter, although Bismarck did later help to restore a working relationship between the King and his brother, who were on poor terms.

He fled to Prince Ptolemy's fortress in Tusculum on 8 April and remained there, where he met the returning Crusader king Louis VII of France and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.

As the war advanced west, he fled to Norway, then was smuggled in a coffin by the Norwegian underground ( with his wife, Czech anthropologist Svatava Pirkova, disguised as a peasant woman ) over the border to Sweden, where he continued his work at the Karolinska Hospital ( with works on aphasia and language competence ).

Priestley also founded a reform congregation, but, after his home was burned down in the Priestley Riots, fled with his wife to America, where he became a leading figure in the founding of the church on American soil.

He left his wife, Minna, in Dresden, and fled to Zurich.

Schindler and his wife fled to Austria's U. S. zone, escaping prosecution by dressing in prison clothes and carrying a letter testifying to their heroic actions.

The comte de Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family ’ s failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791.

He then fled to France where his wife was already waiting.

* A woman from Jezreel, who became David's first wife, after he fled from Saul, leaving Michal, his first-ever wife, behind, and the mother of Amnon, David's first-born.

After losing the battle, Sisera fled to the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of Zaanaim, where he was received by Jael, Heber's wife.

He remained in Constantinople until the Latins actually penetrated into the city, at which point he fled across Bosphorus together with his wife.

To this was added the execution of the wife and daughter of the Emperor Diocletian, who had fled from the court of Licinius before being discovered at Thessalonica.

Aëdon then fled with Chelidonis to her father, who, when Polytechnos came in pursuit of his wife, had him bound, smeared with honey, and exposed to the insects.

In the etiological myth that accounted for the origin of rituals propitiating the daimon of Epopeus, it was told that Zeus impregnated Antiope, who, being the wife of Nycteus, fled in shame to Epopeus, king of Sicyon, abandoning her children, Amphion and Zethus.

While they were away, Roger's half-sister Matilda, the wife of Ranulf, fled to Roger claiming abuse.

He fled to Ptolemais but his wife Cleopatra Thea closed the gates against him.

According to various sources, he was either turned to stone or fled to Sicily, where he perished together with his wife Harmothoë.

He fled with his tutor Modestus and Modestus's wife Crescentia, who was Vitus's nanny, to Lucania.