Perhaps she had fled at the news of my coming.

"But will they not flee at the approach of our kind?"

Usually they fled at the approach of man, but this lot had appeared to attack him.

He sat on the edge of his chair, as though ready to flee at any moment.

She and 11 relatives had spent three days fleeing, usually at night.

He fled at the time they killed my father, taking his sons with him.

My father met the poor creature, who fled at his approach.

The birds of the air had fled at her coming, the animals gone to ground.

These people want to flee the situation at the first sign of anxiety.

But what would happen to the legend if one of them fled at the last minute?