1 As he did so his glance crossed Mattie's and he fancied that a fugitive warning gleamed through her lashes.
2 She steadied herself with a laugh and drew back; but he was enveloped in the scent of her dress, and his shoulder had felt her fugitive touch.
3 The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started.
4 He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.
5 Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
6 The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.
7 But there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally.
8 Then recollecting the importance of securing the fugitive, he dashed aside the surrounding bushes, and pressed eagerly forward to lend his aid in the chase.
9 It will easily be understood that, amid such a concourse of vindictive enemies, no breathing time was allowed the fugitive.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 10 As if aware that no danger was to be apprehended from the young soldier, the fugitive nearly brushed his person in his flight.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 11 A colored man and a fugitive slave were on unfriendly terms.
12 And suiting the action to the word, the door flew open, and the light of the tallow candle, which Tom had hastily lighted, fell on the haggard face and dark, wild eyes of the fugitive.
13 The Lord hath ordered it so that never hath a fugitive been stolen from our village.
14 As I watched them while they all stood clustering about the forge, enjoying themselves so much, I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was.
15 The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, "He tried to murder me."