All 4 Uses of
refuge
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- When that hour arrives—and, mark me, come it will—turn from the world to which you clung, to the refuge which you spurned.†
Chpt 6 *
- We can go to the Workhouse, or the Refuge for the Destitute, or the Magdalen Hospital, I dare say; and the sooner we go the better.'†
Chpt 20
- 'To offer to the unhappy subject of your treachery, at this last moment,' replied Nicholas, 'a refuge and a home.†
Chpt 54
- There were a few timid young children, who, miserable as they had been, and many as were the tears they had shed in the wretched school, still knew no other home, and had formed for it a sort of attachment, which made them weep when the bolder spirits fled, and cling to it as a refuge.†
Chpt 64
Definition:
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(refuge) something giving protection or comfort -- especially a safe place