As has been already stated, a peace was made about 1759, just in time to enable the Creeks to assist the Cherokee in their war with South Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles’ walk, arrived at Heathcliff’s garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snow-shower.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

With him Hermocrates actively joined in trying to encourage his countrymen to attack the Athenians at sea, saying that the latter had not inherited their naval prowess nor would they retain it for ever; they had been landsmen even to a greater degree than the Syracusans, and had only become a maritime power when obliged by the Mede.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[and the inhabitants] of Jerusalem, is, that the Egyptians were the ancestors of the present Jews.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

White Fang sprang clear, just in time to escape the descending blow.
— from White Fang by Jack London

G. got away from Nauheim just in time to escape being shut in by the quarantine-bars on the frontiers; and so did we, for we left the next day.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Let us add, that as Sokratês himself did not account his own condemnation and death, at his age, to be any misfortune, but rather a favorable dispensation of the gods, who removed him just in time to escape that painful consciousness of intellectual decline which induced Demokritus to prepare the poison for himself, so his friend Xenophon goes a step further, and while protesting against the verdict of guilty, extols the manner of death as a subject of triumph; as the happiest, most honorable, and most gracious way, in which the gods could set the seal upon a useful and exalted life.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

But he offered a sum of passage-money which overcame their scruples, and they carried him off just in time to escape the war canoe which Thakombau had sent in pursuit of him.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

the jaw! Is this the end of all my bursting prayers?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

We arrived in Snake River just in time to escape the coming storm.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

On one occasion some straw on which they lay asleep caught fire and they woke just in time to escape being scorched by the flames.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris

Suddenly throwing himself down, Arend glided under the tree, just in time to escape the long horn, whose point had again come in close proximity with his posterior.
— from The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

This, Julian, is the truly exhilarating spectacle of abounding and unfettered originality, of sturdy moral and intellectual independence and rugged individuality, which it was feared by your contemporaries might be endangered by any change in the economic system.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

With a population looking contemptuously on unbelievers, with provincial pashas ruling arbitrarily, and with fanatical Greek and Bulgarian Christians, instances of injustice and violent proceedings against the Jews in the Turkish empire were not of rare occurrence; on all such occasions the Kahiya Shaltiel interposed on behalf of his co-religionists, and, by means of money liberally spent at court, obtained redress.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

The Háhám Bashi is the head of all the Jews in the Turkish Empire, and his decrees are law.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady