All 8 Uses of
refuge
in
Arrowsmith
- She compared her refuge to the roof of a Moorish palace, to a Spanish patio, to a Japanese garden, to a "pleasaunce of old Provencal."†
Chpt 5 *
- Leora and he crept back to the exact spot beneath the balcony where they had stood before, to their den, their one safe refuge.†
Chpt 7
- Clif turned into a jovial and (for him) unusually quiet companion…… Ex-farmhand, ex-book-agent, ex-mechanic, he had so little money yet so scratching a desire to be resplendent that he took refuge in pride in poverty, pride in being offensive.†
Chpt 7
- As he closed the door he was touched by this cramped refuge, with its camp-beds and photographs from home and softly wrinkled linen.†
Chpt 7
- Clif was his refuge; Clif admired Leora and would listen to his babbling of her.†
Chpt 8
- For once he had no refuge in Leora.†
Chpt 29
- His place, Frangipani Court, was a refuge from the hot humming plain.†
Chpt 34
- So long as he had had a refuge in talking to Terry, he had not been too irritated by well-dressed nonentities, and for a time he had enjoyed the dramatic game of making Nice People accept him.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(refuge) something giving protection or comfort -- especially a safe place