"Then we could escape by other means without being followed."
It would be a simple matter to escape by himself.
The figure stood still for a moment, and then turned back as if to escape him by flight.
In 1986, a total of 33 people escaped by sea to Florida.
It was bad enough to have to figure out a way of escaping by myself.
She was the one who had suggested escaping by water.
It was impossible for the second man to have escaped by the window.
He had escaped death by the fraction of a second.
No details were known except that they'd tried to escape by sea.
You escape death by the skin of your teeth and fight for justice.