It had drawn them together, and since his release from prison Dill had worked tirelessly to effect this night's escape.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.

To escape from a prison camp required a very special state of mind ; ;

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

It is the only method left for a man to escape from a woman's world.

The best could not escape from the worst and the worst nestled cosily beside the better.

Alex suppressed those expressions of relief which offered to prevail in his face and escape from his throat ; ;

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

We can escape from such a difficulty by ruling out the animal as not constituting a trial, but such a solution is not always satisfactory.

Unless one takes refuge in the theory -- however disguised -- that Negroes are, somehow, different from white people, I do not see how one can escape the conclusion that the Negro's status in this country is not only a cruel injustice but a grave national liability.

This escape from control has led to management's evaluating the risk of occasional irrational prosecution as worth while.

Nonmagical Confucianism was a secular, rational philosophy, but even with this different orientation it could not escape from the ethos of a cosmic government.

Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.

Othon, however, does not escape death from the disease.

Although letting the Countess escape is morally questionable, that impulse to take the law into his own hands was far from unique.

While drawing up the plans, he included a circular staircase leading directly from his office to the outside of the building which allowed him to escape the patronage-seekers waiting for him in his ante-chamber.

On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.

According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

After Ali ibn Yusuf's death in 1143, his son Tashfin ibn Ali lost ground rapidly before the Almohads, and in 1146 he was killed by a fall from a precipice while attempting to escape after a defeat near Oran.

Although, the young prince's troops could get the mastery in 1189 when the boyars of Halych rose against his rule, but shortly afterwards Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich managed to escape from his captivity and he expelled the Hungarian troops from Halych.

Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.

But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).

Although hundreds of men dived into the sea to escape the flames, fewer than 100 survived the blast: approximately 70 survivors were picked up by British boats, including the wounded staff officer Léonard-Bernard Motard.

Many of these Volunteers were arrested in the period following the rising, while others, including Mellows had to go " on the run " to escape.

He spent five years of laborious study, almost living in the libraries of Paris, and unmoved by the turmoils that agitated the world around him, including Napoleon's escape, the Waterloo campaign and the Restoration.

A dominant position ( usually on top ) allows the dominant grappler a variety of options, including: attempting to escape by standing up, obtaining a pin or hold-down to control and exhaust the opponent, executing a submission hold, or striking the opponent.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia and Sparta.

Aside from the few units that were able to escape to Saudi Arabia, including a majority of the air force, all of this equipment was either destroyed or taken by the Iraqis.

147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant ' Angelo.

Dr. Alkad Mzu, for years kept virtual prisoner on Tranquillity because of her knowledge of the Alchemist and her terrorist ambitions, escapes in a breathtaking sequence including using a Blackhawk to " swallow " inside the habitat to aid her escape.

With time secondary stuttering including escape behaviours such as eye blinking, lip movements, etc.

As Mason uses his unique experience to escape from their cells, he reveals why he was held there for so many years — for stealing a microfilm of the United States ' most closely guarded secrets, including the Roswell UFO incident and the John F. Kennedy assassination ( Womack revealed this to Paxton, earlier ).

So a dangerous escape of some hazard, including water, fire, or animals means strict liability in nuisance.

The Village is further secured by numerous monitoring systems and security forces, including a mysterious balloon-like device called Rover that recaptures those who attempt escape.

* The Church should promote standards and personal lifestyles that would make unnecessary and undesirable the resort to commercial gambling — including public lotteries — as a recreation, as an escape, or as a means of producing public revenue or funds for support of charities or government.

" Seymour Hersh goes on to refute the official account, describing it as " in fact a debacle, plagued by squabbling between the services, bad military planning and avoidable deaths of American soldiers, as well as the escape of key al-Qaeda leaders, likely including Osama bin Laden.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros and sacked several cities of the southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos and Sparta.

In these he follows the course of European history from the 1920s through the Second World War, including real characters and events — such as Hitler's escape following the abortive Munich putsch — as well as fictional.

An investigation into the penal system uncovered widespread abuses, including cruel treatment and conspiracy in the escape of wealthy convicts.

Only around 10, 000 managed to escape, including Spock and some of the Elders.

This modern stucco is being replaced with the traditional mud plaster, including pulp from the prickly pear cactus, that " breathes " better to allow excess water to escape but requires more regular inspection and higher maintenance costs.

But Sauron ( along with other servants of Morgoth, including Balrogs and dragons ) manages to escape his master's downfall.

In 1980, while on a day-release from prison, he fled again to Brazil to escape the brewing Mafia War instigated by Totò Riina that subsequently led to the deaths of many of Buscetta's allies, including Stefano Bontade.

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas ' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius ( the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome ).