Sentence examples for flee as far from inspiring English sources

His chance to flee as far as he can until he hits the ocean.

For that reason, imaginative writers tend to flee as far as possible from the too-specific nomenclatures of the expert and toward pure evocations of sensation.

Trips have included a charity hitchhike that challenges students to flee as far from Bournemouth as they can in 36 hours without spending a penny.

Clement of Alexandria (died c. 215) wrote in a chapter about drinking that he admires those who adopt an austere life and "flee as far as possible from wine, shunning it as they would the danger of fire", and he suggests the young abstain from wine so as not to inflame their "wild impulses".

In 1688, France helpfully declared Protestantism illegal, driving out the Huguenots, some of whom fled as far as the Cape.

This soon turned into a disorderly retreat; some men fled as far as Constantinople, bringing with them the rumour that the Emperor had been killed.

Numerous internally displaced people were present in the surroundings of Bissau, especially in Biombo [ 25, 26], but many fled as far as Bafata, Gabu and Oio.

Wars in Lebanon and Iraq led to many of the earth's earliest Christian populations to flee to cities as far afield as Rome and San Diego.

The United States plans to take in about 10,000 Burundian refugees, many of whom fled their nation as far back as 1972, the State Department said.

Dozens of aftershocks rattled the region, some registering over five in magnitude, bringing down half-collapsed buildings and sending people fleeing from offices as far away as Bologna and Milan.

On 8 February, at a speech in his home town of Northampton, he went even further, describing how he had shared the privations of his men by living the "whole time in a common tent" and how, after the charge, he had rallied his troops and pursued the fleeing enemy artillerymen as far as the Tchernaya river.