Of Collins, Holt speaks with great enthusiasm, as the most lenient of the governors, and the finest of gentlemen: when he entered the forests, absconders would fall down on their knees before him, and obtain his forgiveness.
"The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)"
John West
A road was opened with Launceston, chiefly useful to absconders.
"The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)"
John West
Poor Blood-good didn't have a show, as they might have said, didn't get through at any point; the crowd was so new that-there either having been no hue and cry for him, or having been too many others, for other absconders, in the intervals-they had never so much as heard of him and would have no more of Mrs. Folliott's true inwardness, on that subject at least, than she had lately cared to have of Monteith's.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James