1 How I escaped death, I do not know.
2 I had escaped a worse than lion's jaws.
3 Thus twice, in one short day, I escaped death by the merest chance.
4 I looked forward to a time at which it would be safe for me to escape.
5 He did this to alarm their fears, and strike terror into those who escaped.
6 Scarce a sentence escaped him but that was commenced or concluded by some horrid oath.
7 I suppose I looked like a man who had escaped a den of wild beasts, and barely escaped them.
8 They were frequently whipped when least deserving, and escaped whipping when most deserving it.
9 Thus she escaped not only punishment, but even the pain of being arraigned before a court for her horrid crime.
10 I now come to that part of my life during which I planned, and finally succeeded in making, my escape from slavery.
11 To escape punishment was to escape accusation; and few slaves had the fortune to do either, under the overseership of Mr. Gore.
12 White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters.
13 In writing to a dear friend, immediately after my arrival at New York, I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.
14 If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.
15 I bent myself to devising ways and means for our escape, and meanwhile strove, on all fitting occasions, to impress them with the gross fraud and inhumanity of slavery.
16 But the most astonishing as well as the most interesting thing to me was the condition of the colored people, a great many of whom, like myself, had escaped thither as a refuge from the hunters of men.
17 He argued that if one slave refused to be corrected, and escaped with his life, the other slaves would soon copy the example; the result of which would be, the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.