Crossword-Solution: SAUVE 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Heavens! _Je me sauve_, I have something else to say to you, but after that (which is not a joke) I shall keep it for another shoot.—Yours testimonially, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

Sauve qui peut! Some wrenched down the doors; some clung to the heavy banquet-tables, to the sofas, to the billiard-tables:--during one terrible instant,--against fruitless heroisms, against futile generosities,--raged all the frenzy of selfishness, all the brutalities of panic.

Perhaps it would take the form of sudden dispersal—a frightened sauve qui peut, a scuttling into selfish corners.

Lucky the man who can get in at a window, slide down a chimney, creep in through a cellar or through a hole, and seize a bag to swell his share! In the general rout, the _sauve qui peut_ of Beresina is passed from mouth to mouth; all is legal and illegal, false and true, honest and dishonest.

Above all, the highest spirit in the world changes only too easily at the first check into depression, and one might say into a kind of rhodomontade of alarm, the French _sauve que peut_.—Such an Army can only achieve something through its leader, never by itself.