abortive flight

Certainly anyone on the other roof could have spotted the end of his abortive flight.

Desperate, he made his abortive flight to Varennes in June 1791.

I've never been exactly sure how Canth and I managed that abortive flight in the first place-" "Do you remember what you were thinking?"

Because our foam mattresses had been whisked away to a better world during the abortive flight, we tried to get hold of some comfy US issue cots.

After another abortive flight and consequent imprisonment, he was enrolled in a mixed force of Portuguese and natives and sent on an expedition to Ilambo.

Abortive flight, song of Vladimir Vysotsky, performed by Yekaterina Guseva (Version with English subtitles)

They include Sir Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, the future Elizabeth I (on orders of Mary Tudor) and Rudolf Hess, the deputy Führer, who was held there during World War II after his abortive flight to Scotland.