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- v. present participle of flee.
Examples
“Jonah thought in fleeing from the land of Israel, where Jehovah was peculiarly present, that he should escape from Jehovah's prophecy-inspiring influence.”
“This he mentions, not only as condemning himself for his folly, in fleeing from the presence of this God, but as designing to bring these mariners from the worship and service of their many gods to the knowledge and obedience of the one only living and true God.”
“Their ancestors shall be ashamed of their cowardice, in fleeing from the first onset (v. 12), or, Your mother, Babylon itself, the mother-city, shall be confounded, when she sees herself deserted by those that should have been her guards.”
“Then the law enforcement officers were in a position to say, OK, he is what we call a fleeing dangerous felon and that's when he can be engage.”
“He now begins to justify himself in fleeing from the presence of the Lord, when he was first ordered to go to Nineveh, for which he had before, with good reason, condemned himself: "Lord," said he, "was not this my saying when I was in my own country?”
“I've seen too many wounded children, and too many desperate civilians fleeing from the fighting.”
“Some cases result in large settlements, such as the $1.2 million awarded to a couple whose two children were killed by a driver fleeing from a police cruiser on Florida Avenue NE.”
The Washington Post: From 2007 to 2009, D.C. paid more than $50 million in legal settlements
“In the Dominican Republic, with a per capita of US$3,247 and 9.0 million people we have one million+ illegal Haitian immigrants fleeing from a $415 per capita and 9.0 million people.”
“Simple, fun flash game about a penguin fleeing an avalanche.”
“Whereas BSG delivered the tale of a desperate band of survivors fleeing from the attempt by the robotic Cylons to exterminate humanity, Caprica gives us the tale of a society relishing in its dominance while also standing at the verge of its own, self-inflicted collapse.”
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Prosie: The Crisis
By Thomas Paine. Published on December 23, 1776 (later published as The American Crisis). Posted here as excerpts, not in entirety.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer s...unlamented, wretch, bawdy-houses, ravaged, slain, widow, orphan, terror, fleeing, shrieking, horrid, brutish and 40 more...
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