Both Uses of
asylum
in
Crime and Punishment
- I will put those two little ones and Polenka into some good orphan asylum, and I will settle fifteen hundred roubles to be paid to each on coming of age, so that Sofya Semyonovna need have no anxiety about them.†
Chpt 5.5
- She has taken the three children to an old lady of high rank, the patroness of some orphan asylums, whom I used to know years ago.†
Chpt 6.5 *
Definition:
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(asylum as in: she sought asylum in...) a shelter from danger or hardship