decamp

• To decamp is usually the easier way; readjustment is often so difficult as to be almost impossible. —  Society Its Origin and Development
• You peeked through and saw--what Mr. Winslow had by this time become so excited that he caught hold of Dick's arm and actually gripped him as though he might be afraid the boy would suddenly decamp, and leave his thrilling story but half told I saw Mr. Graylock. He was standing up and buttoning his coat nervously. —  Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune
• After a Council of War orders to decamp were issued. —  A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans
• These three sharpers allure Gil Blas to a house which Camilla says is hers, fleece him of his ring, his portmanteau, and his money, decamp, and leave him to find out that the house is only a hired lodging.--Lesage, Gil Blas_, i. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• We shall be smoked: nay it is my belief we are already; and I have a great mind to decamp, and leave the country You are always in a panic. —  The Adventures of Hugh Trevor

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