My ancestors escaped to Alpha Centauri in an experimental interstellar ship-slower than light, of course.

They also amused themselves with the speculation that their ancestor had escaped from the Titanic in women's clothing.

Wesselman speculates that the ancestors of these animals may have escaped from zoos during the collapse of Western civilization.

But why have you told this story to the one man in Reveny who could believe it, because his far-off ancestor escaped the full blight sent on Clio?

A very small number of them are Jews, whose ancestors escaped the Inquisition.

Terry had no idea what his ancestor had escaped from.

Consequentially, new theories in cetacean evolution hypothesize that whales and their ancestors escaped predation, not competition, by slowly adapting to the ocean.

They explained that their ancestors escaped to this place during the civil unrest of the Qin and they themselves had not left since or had contact with anyone from the outside.

But there are things in us which if awakened would drop us back into chaos as suddenly as our ancestors escaped it.

Stephen Thomas came from a family that had been middle or upper middle class since before Victoria's ancestors escaped to Canada.