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Meanings of ignominious flight in English

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Usage of ignominious flight in English
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A death-like stillness followed the ignominious flight of the plotters.
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
2
He saw nothing before him but the necessity of an ignominious flight from Paris.
The Lovels of Arden
3
The other was precipitate, ignominious flight from the sight of the other's voiceless despair.
The Heart of Unaga
4
The outraged voice of Miss Chaplin arrested Kitty Miller in the moment of ignominious flight.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
5
Give me a sword, Lady, and thy father shall learn that Theodore scorns an ignominious flight.
The Castle of Otranto
6
She would not take refuge in the house, for it would have seemed like an ignominious flight.
A Roman Singer
7
The latter saved himself by ignominious flight.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
8
Here the Scottish spearmen drove the English knighthood into ignominious flight and freed their country from its foreign overlords.
Early European History
9
It was horrible to hear, and would alone have put all the armies of the Republic to ignominious flight.
Marietta: A Maid of Venice
10
There will be no ignominious flight to Saudi Arabia, like that of Tunisia's deposed president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
The Guardian
11
The grand- vizier is at hand with re-enforcements, and ere long the Christians will be put to ignominious flight.
Prince Eugene and His Times
12
Flight, ignominious flight, seemed the only escape, and yet at this, the sturdy British spirit of Sir Paul rebelled.
High Noon: A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks'
13
We know of blind animal rage, of striking, biting, scratching, howling, and snarling, of irrational fears and ignominious flight.
The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
14
To belie those words by an ignominious flight was to court the worst of sins in French political life, ridicule.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
15
They kept watch, however, at the door, and planted sentinels at the windows, to prevent an ignominious flight that way.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 / Volume 17, New Series, M...
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This harmless noise drove the mischief-makers to ignominious flight, and the tobacco plants which were still uninjured were left in peace.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commer...
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Ignominious flight across language varieties
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