All 4 Uses of
asylum
in
Washington Square
- The Doctor had not proposed to Mrs. Penniman to come and live with him indefinitely; he had suggested that she should make an asylum of his house while she looked about for unfurnished lodgings.†
Chpt 2
- It seems to me likely that you would have offered an asylum to an interesting sufferer.†
Chpt 27 *
- She formed habits, regulated her days upon a system of her own, interested herself in charitable institutions, asylums, hospitals, and aid societies; and went generally, with an even and noiseless step, about the rigid business of her life.†
Chpt 32
- Driving out to Bloomingdale one April day to see a patient of unsound mind, who was confined in a private asylum for the insane, and whose family greatly desired a medical opinion from an eminent source, he was caught in a spring shower, and being in a buggy, without a hood, he found himself soaked to the skin.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(asylum as in: she sought asylum in...) a shelter from danger or hardship