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Example sentences for "escapade"

Lexicographically close words:
escalera; escallop; escalloped; escallops; escalop; escapades; escape; escaped; escapement; escapements
  1. Since the escapade of the false bear hunt there had been a notable absence of pranks.

  2. As if by common consent nobody mentioned the escapade of the night, though it was in the minds of all and all were really longing to discuss it.

  3. An escapade with pigs occurs in Tennyson's poem, "Walking to the Mail.

  4. Narrate an escapade for (a) your father, (b) your cronies in response to a toast at a banquet with them.

  5. Is it fitting that one who has figured in such an escapade should be made the wife of an Ashley?

  6. Surely it was a disgrace for a young and guileless maiden to have to confess to such an escapade--an escapade that sounded worse to censuring ears than it had been in reality.

  7. Anna could have died rather than suffer her escapade to reach the ears of home.

  8. She was glad to assist the kind and beautiful lady, and moreover, she enjoyed an escapade of any sort, and this surely was one.

  9. Charley going to tell her that Philippa's escapade had come to his ears?

  10. I cannot associate her with any unladylike escapade of the kind that was hinted at I cannot believe that there is really any risk to run.

  11. And after that first evening, though with no definite parti pris on the subject, Philippa's eccentric escapade was practically buried.

  12. But her escapade that was most talked about was really not worthy of the gossip of a Gower.

  13. There was surely not much of an escapade in this transaction.

  14. Now that his wife satisfied the curiosity her Grace's escapade had excited, and gave him full details, he became keen to justify Mrs. Challis, and was for a while secretly intolerant of her husband.

  15. A dream hung about her waking consciousness of Bridgetticks and the Turk, mysteriously visitors to relatives in the neighbourhood of Royd, and of a wild escapade to the highest ridge of a hill in the neighbourhood, in the snow.

  16. The escapade of Challis and Judith might have been a dream, and the terms he had been on with Marianne those of Philemon and Baucis.

  17. Hansie longed to ask her brother whether the Provost-Marshal knew anything of their escapade the night before, but dared not, hoping that the men concerned were under the impression that this was their first interview with the prisoner.

  18. What became of them at the time she did not know, and a few weeks elapsed before the crushing sequel to this escapade became known.

  19. The fear that her escapade had been discovered again seized him.

  20. The escapade of Melvas communicates a touch rather nearer to the perfect form, but only a little nearer to it.

  21. But I do not think I have heard of such a version (though Sir Walter has gone near to representing something parallel in Ivanhoe), and it would have been a somewhat violent escapade for even a mediƦval fancy.

  22. Thus Elliot had learned that for such an escapade as his last he might easily obtain forgiveness.

  23. This escapade took place just before he joined the irregular forces who were carrying on a desultory sort of warfare with Sekukuni.

  24. It was, however, to be the last escapade of the latter, as the poor fellow was shortly afterwards killed while gallantly leading a desperate rush at Sekukuni's Mountains.

  25. This was the deciding event which determined me to run away from home, which I did the next week, and though my escapade did not last beyond ten days, on my return the rod was buried.

  26. I have mentioned an escapade of this period, connected with the last flogging my father gave me, but of which that was only the secondary cause, determining the moment but not the movement.

  27. If it pleased them she would go to Chalkhill; or in any other way that seemed good to them, she would expiate the foolish, and worse than foolish escapade of which she had been guilty.

  28. Her escapade would be remembered against her; she would be condemned for the attempt, and despised for its failure.

  29. This latest escapade finished him, for he was pursued and cast into prison, where he died.

  30. The escapade ended in a sentence of a year's imprisonment, during which he appears to have set his cell on fire and burned himself badly.

  31. He had had several narrow escapes, and before his final escapade had been arrested in Derby by a detective, who was pretty certain that he had "passed through his hands.

  32. York promised to let Kent know of the escapade through one of his squires on the morning of their departure from Windsor, with orders to join them as quickly as possible by sea from Bideford.

  33. The next escapade of this singular individual was to address to Queen Jeanne a series of verses, painfully laboured, of which the first is the least uncouth, and even that halts in the rhyme.

  34. It may have been that Carey had grown wary of murder as a means of gaining his end after the escapade of the previous night, for the first move of his men was to attempt to drive out the invaders with rifles swung as clubs.

  35. They danced again, and in the handclapping that followed the first number he turned to find the Governor, calm and with no marks of his escapade upon him, bowing before Miss Seebrook.

  36. Such an escapade would very likely spoil our cordial relations with England and cause no end of trouble.

  37. He was touched by her confession that her escapade was merely an experiment to test her blood for inherited evil.

  38. Enough that the escapade of a week was tacitly forgotten.

  39. It was the only allusion he ever made in my hearing to the escapade that won him his wife.

  40. The sauce of danger made the escapade the more attractive.

  41. Angus Macnair should have taken Esther's escapade so much to heart.

  42. And the change of meeting was thought of chiefly because when Mr. Macnair heard about the escapade he seemed much worried.

  43. But since I must speak more plainly, I was referring to that mad escapade of a week ago.

  44. No child ever had a greater measure of unalloyed joy in his soul than I did when I dashed down that village lane, and no later escapade has ever brought me quite the same fine shade of satisfaction.

  45. A severer rebuke to "Mame" could not have been administered, and the party escapade was one of the very few disobediences I remember her being connected with.

  46. The preceding escapade had been woefully bad, and it was very much up to me to atone for it in no unmistakable manner.


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