"Flee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not King in the land of Alba. Let us flee from Erin, and there in thine own land shall we ...
— Celtic Tales - Told to the Children • Louey Chisholm
... need you not. Upon you and the maiden by your side I invoke a speedy and terrible destruction, which, ere you can attempt to flee, ...
— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey
... the world would I stay, if it be known you have taken refuge here. For a long time their spies have been watching about me; they only wait for some occasion to seize upon my villa, as they have on the possessions of all my father's house. Let me flee with you. I have a brother-in-law in Florence who hath often urged me to escape to him till times mend,—for, surely, God will not allow the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various
... fearful appearance, while, with stealthy step, the savage advanced from his lurking-place, keeping, as he did so, his eyes riveted upon hers, with such a gaze as the wily serpent is said to fascinate his prey. His hapless victim moved not; whither could she flee to escape one whose fleet foot could so easily have overtaken her in the race? where conceal herself from him whose wary eye fixed upon her seemed to deprive ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... failed to arouse them thoroughly, though it filled the rats with temporary horror, and caused them to flee. ...
— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne
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