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• “Yams and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil, for they come not.”

  THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN

• “Already the people had fled from the city by millions -- at first the rich, in their private motor-cars and dirigibles, and then the great mass of the population, on foot, carrying the plague with them, themselves starving and pillaging the farmers and all the towns and villages on the way.”

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• “That 28 people died at their own hand, preferring this to being returned, when their asylum application failed, to the country they fled, is a terrible indictment of British justice.”

  The Guardian: 'Racist' UK policies blamed for deaths of 77 asylum seekers and migrants

• “I watched silently as she fled from the room, silently cursing myself.”

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• “Crazed with PTSD, Frank fought off the cops, fled from the jail, stole a motorcycle and hid in the nearby mountains.”

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• “My grandparents fled from the Bolsheviks because they were capitalists, and Jewish.”

  The Huffington Post: Marcia Reynolds: Gender Equality: Why Do We Still Lag Behind Other Countries?

• “The people in the street had been throwing stones, so many of us fled from the campus to our homes.”

  The Huffington Post: Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16)

• “I just returned from Cambodia, a place that has been close to my heart for 30 years now, all the more because my wife and I had the privilege of hosting Cambodian refugees in our home as they fled from the horrible genocide of the late 70s.”

  The Huffington Post: Brian D. McLaren: A Wake-Up Call From the Depths of the Congo

• “The victims did not know the shooter, who fled from the apartment on foot, Di Elmo said.”

  The Huffington Post: 5 Shot At Party Near Seton Hall University

• “Charms, angels, devils, plagues, and parthenogenesis have fled from the glare into the crannies of memory.”

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