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asylum as in:  she sought asylum in...

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  • That was the first year Europe had over a million migrants apply for asylum.
  • He also wanted to make sure they didn't ask for political asylum in Britain, which would be embarrassing for his government.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • You could seek asylum on his behalf.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter in another country
  • Apparently, he is seeking asylum….   (source)
    asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
  • Silas had never been here, but he felt a rising sense of refuge and asylum as he approached the building on foot.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • It turned out it was heading to the United States, and when it made port Nasser jumped off and immediately sought asylum.   (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
  • They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.   (source)
    asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
  • "Commander Ryan," Ramius said, drawing himself to attention, "my officers and I request political asylum in the United States—and we bring you this small present."   (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
  • Most important, they were legal, having been granted asylum by the U.S. government.   (source)
  • Sometimes we may even need to provide asylum for those whose lives are in danger.   (source)
    asylum = shelter from danger or hardship
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  • No wood, however, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innumerable chinks, I found it an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • They were granted asylum in the U.S. in 1982, the year their daughter, Pari, was born.   (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
  • Asylum for those family members left behind did not come easily, or at all.   (source)
  • Naturally, we can give asylum to the defecting officers.   (source)
  • However, Ramius could surface off the Virginia Capes in a day or two and request political asylum.   (source)
  • If you walk into your embassy and request temporary asylum, that's one thing, but asking them to take action against French law enforcement in the field?   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • Asylum from what?   (source)
    asylum = shelter
  • It was funny because my mother had no idea what asylum was and my father had never even thought about it—there were other things on his mind.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter in another country
  • Mr. Zardari told the high commissioner to give my father a post as education attache so he would have a salary to live on and a diplomatic passport so he would not need to seek asylum to stay in the UK.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • The Bushis were grateful when they learned they had been granted asylum by the United States, but the news was bittersweet.   (source)
    asylum = the right to remain in a country after fleeing political persecution in another country
  • What they were not able to prevent was an intelligence officer in a bosun's uniform making an offer of asylum: anyone who wished to remain in the United States would be permitted to do so.   (source)
  • The government in Brazzaville had handed the nineteen men over to Joseph Kabila, in obvious violation of international law, which forbids nations from sending asylum applicants back to countries where they may face harm.   (source)
  • The family made it to Mozambique, where they lived for four years in two separate camps, hoping the whole time to hear from the United Nations office there that their application for asylum had been accepted.   (source)
  • She would remind them of what she had to go through to get asylum in the United States—the countless interviews with UN officials and their attempts to ferret out lies and exaggerations by asking her the same questions over and over again, sometimes months apart—and of all the worry she had that some small mistake, some forgetful error, would doom them to that refugee camp for years more.   (source)
  • They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter in another country
  • It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.   (source)
    asylum = refuge or shelter
  • The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.   (source)
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asylum as in:  committed to the asylum

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  • She was committed to an asylum after paranoia led her to injure someone.
  • The inmates are running the asylum.
  • "Yep, that poor fella just sits in the state asylum saying, 'Purple waves, purple waves' over and over again, and his scared eyes keep staring at his hands."   (source)
  • If your husband hadn't taken such good care of me, I'm sure I'd be in an asylum by now It was a dreadful time.   (source)
  • When I first woke up, it was like I'd entered an insane asylum—these strange guys hovering over my bed, the world tipping around me, memories swirling in my brain.   (source)
  • Miss Stephanie said old Mr. Radley said no Radley was going to any asylum, when it was suggested that a season in Tuscaloosa might be helpful to Boo.   (source)
    asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
  • It is supposed to bore us into submission or prepare us for an insane asylum.   (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
  • They took him screaming off to the asylum.   (source)
    asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
  • If it were up to her, they would be humanely dispatched to that great canine insane asylum in the sky.   (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
  • Have the criminals and lunatics been let out of the prisons and asylums and sent here to act as bloodhounds?   (source)
    asylums = hospitals for the mentally ill
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  • As they parked in front of the three-story shingled building, Ruth was relieved to see that it did not look like an asylum.   (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
  • I visit my aunt at the asylum two or three times a week.   (source)
  • There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.   (source)
  • There wasn't much he could contribute to the work of the asylum.   (source)
  • He looked through the plane trees at the great brick face of the asylum.   (source)
  • Er …. actually, I'm based at the asylum.   (source)
  • It belongs to the asylum, and you're damn lucky to have it, if you ask me.   (source)
  • Drying them with rags didn't work, and he had to put them in the slow oven in the asylum kitchen.   (source)
  • Trixie's going back to the asylum this afternoon.   (source)
  • At the asylum, Tamar made a dangerously long call to Bobby on Albert Veening's antique telephone.   (source)
  • The asylum superintendent's office had once been rather grand.   (source)
  • Later, after more gin, Dart told tales of the asylum.   (source)
  • "Trixie was at the asylum this morning," Marijke said.   (source)
  • I pulled at his sleeve, and we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration, the major premise of which was that half the Finches were in the asylum anyway, but if our mother were living we would not have come to such a state.   (source)
    asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
  • When the asylum ambulance jolted into view, she leaned her forehead against the cold wall and let out her breath.   (source)
    asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
  • Dart sat huddled inside his overcoat on a cast-iron bench on the terrace of the Mendlo asylum, watching the lunatics.   (source)
  • If the Germans had come straight into the asylum, rather than wasting precious time positioning their machine gunners on the road.   (source)
  • He'd shown up at the asylum with a German bullet in him, and he'd been holed up there for a few days.   (source)
  • She was very alarmed when she saw it was the asylum ambulance, and although she caught only a glimpse of the driver, she was quite sure it was Ernst.   (source)
  • At the asylum they'd staggered out of the heavily laden ambulance, and she'd embraced and kissed him, which was startling.   (source)
  • They had some connection with Albert Veening, so they'd had the bright idea of stashing it at the asylum.   (source)
  • While Roller and Grabowski were map-reading in the field kitchen, Dart was standing in the asylum garden watching the rooks.   (source)
  • Dart, his head still lowered, said, "I have a scheduled transmission from the asylum at eight twenty."   (source)
  • In the hidden room at the asylum, the wind moaned softly at the gap in the window, but Dart couldn't hear it.   (source)
  • The journey to the Mendlo Mental Asylum took twenty minutes but seemed much longer on the narrow back roads.   (source)
  • Dart was finishing his meagre breakfast in the asylum's huge kitchen when Sister Agatha walked in, holding an infant.   (source)
  • In the hidden room at the Mendlo asylum, Dart paced back and forth between the couch and the blacked-out window.   (source)
  • All the inhabitants of the asylum seemed to have entered a state of suspended animation, as though they hoped to survive cold and hunger by dreaming themselves elsewhere.   (source)
  • Late in the morning of 6th December, in his bedroom at the asylum, Dart jolted awake from a Benzedrine nightmare in which large spiders with glass legs were walking on his face.   (source)
  • Tamar had forbidden the use of the ambulance; there were now only ten litres of petrol concealed at the asylum, and they needed to be hoarded, in case of an emergency, until more could be stolen.   (source)
  • After the German raid on the asylum, long after, Dart decided that there had to be something else, some secret working of the world, that went beyond even the miraculous.   (source)
  • When the reception committee has sorted the containers, we load the stuff for the asylum and the farm into the ambulance and spread a mattress over it.   (source)
  • The asylum, Tamar thought.   (source)
  • You'll call at the asylum at about nine o'clock, pick up the other transceiver, take it to the Grotiuses' house in Mendlo, and stand watch while Dart—Ernst Lubbers—sets everything up and makes his test transmission.   (source)
  • To the asylum.   (source)
  • You were at the asylum?   (source)
  • His request was that I would at once release him from the asylum and send him home.   (source)
  • I saw a young woman do it once at the Eversfield Asylum before anyone could lay hands on her.   (source)
  • You return home for tonight to your asylum, and see that all be well.   (source)
  • That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.   (source)
  • He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.   (source)
  • She knew, of course, that the place was a lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a shudder when we entered.   (source)
  • As we passed across the lawn on our way to the station to catch our train we could see the front of the asylum.   (source)
  • I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead.   (source)
  • All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well.   (source)
  • Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.   (source)
  • It is now after the dinner hour of the asylum, and as yet my patient sits in a corner brooding, with a dull, sullen, woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather to indicate than to show something directly.   (source)
  • I was so much astonished, that the oddness of introducing a madman in an asylum did not strike me at the moment, and besides, there was a certain dignity in the man's manner, so much of the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction, "Lord Godalming, Professor Van Helsing, Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas, Mr. Jonathan Harker, Mr. Renfield."   (source)
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  • And it would be nice not to look like I belong in an asylum.†   (source)
  • It called to mind a barely held memory of something from storybooks—some sort of haunted asylum.†   (source)
  • The asylum, that's where you're from, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven.†   (source)
  • Peter leaned against a floor mat that had been strung on the wall, like the inside of an insane asylum.†   (source)
  • Arrah, there are people above in the lunatic asylum can read and write.†   (source)
  • Fine, if she is acting crazy, then I'm going to put her in an asylum.†   (source)
  • One of her perps had skipped out to the surface and tried to bargain with the Mud People for asylum.†   (source)
  • In the nineteen-twenties it was the asylum and the shock treatments.†   (source)
  • For Elinor had decided to offer a home, or "asylum," as she put it, to all the strange creatures who had landed in her world.†   (source)
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  • The University asylum.†   (source)
  • He was eventually freed from slavery at the age of forty, only to be committed later to an asylum for dementia.†   (source)
  • Into the Asylum, Sir.†   (source)
  • Lin had sought political asylum with the help of a ballet teacher in Fort Worth.†   (source)
  • The perp-almost always an innocent thrasher-is always a three-second skateboard ride away from asylum in the neighboring franchulate.†   (source)
  • IN 1958, WHEN A BLACK TEACHER from Gulfport, Mississippi, named Clennon King tried to enroll in Ole Miss, and was instead carted away by Mississippi state troopers to an insane asylum, the football coach couldn't have imagined it had anything to do with him.†   (source)
  • If the whitepeople of Cincinnati had allowed Negroes into their lunatic asylum they could have found candidates in 124.†   (source)
  • Asylum," she wrote back.†   (source)
  • He found nothing suitable, however, and instead took a job as a "keeper" at the Norristown Asylum.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel's soothing music is a nice touch at so busy an asylum, and it's appropriately schizophrenic, too, lovely at times and lost at others.†   (source)
  • If the people after your hide had found this book, Annie, you would have been in jail or some asylum , until the end of time.†   (source)
  • The most famous of the lunatic asylums, debtor's prisons, and hospitals built on Roosevelt Island in the 1800s," Simon read dutifully.†   (source)
  • The ecclesiastical delegates who had come to investigate the report of the strange death of the birds and the sacrifice of the Wandering Jew found Father Antonio Isabel playing blind man's buff with the children, and thinking that his report was the product of a hallucination, they took him off to an asylum.†   (source)
  • Though the man is incapable of human speech, he was able, over a period of weeks, to chisel out his story in hieroglyphics on the bathroom wall of the insane asylum where he now resides.†   (source)
  • In other words, an asylum.†   (source)
  • A daughter in an asylum!†   (source)
  • People say the Handmaidens of God have a marvelous asylum for old housekeepers.†   (source)
  • Twenty-three — Asylum on the Road to Paris.†   (source)
  • It looks like an insane asylum.†   (source)
  • It has recruited refugees and asylum-seekers from Laos and Bosnia.†   (source)
  • Later the island was turned into a leper colony,a lunatic asylum, and a naval base.†   (source)
  • She was probably strapped to a bed in an asylum somewhere, lost in an entire world of her own creation.†   (source)
  • In Khartoum, I waited a month for asylum from the American Embassy.†   (source)
  • Are we in an asylum?†   (source)
  • He defected in 1976 and was granted asylum in Sweden and given a salary by Säpo.†   (source)
  • In an asylum, do you mean?†   (source)
  • This was darkly humorous, as the prisoners in Chicago had little to no contact with prison staff or counselors of any stripe—the inmates really seemed to run this asylum.†   (source)
  • Half-Orphan Asylum†   (source)
  • I smiled, patting Russell on the shoulder, thinking of him as another escapee from the asylum.†   (source)
  • As is nenawatay, hospitality and asylum for guests who arrive seeking help.†   (source)
  • "Dearest Mother," Harlon wrote to Belle in Weslaco early on March 1, the day of Easy Company's plunge into the asylum.†   (source)
  • He recalled the years of asylum that the Pilgrims had found among the Dutch.†   (source)
  • I'm only steps away from the asylum beyond those double doors and I take the risk of quickening my walk as much as I can without drawing attention.†   (source)
  • And something about asylum.†   (source)
  • a bridge over a dry riverbed, tangled with brush and clinging vines; the bridge of rustic logs, made for trysting, but virginal and untested by lovers; on up the road, past the buildings, with the southern verandas half-a-city-block long, to the sudden forking, barren of buildings, birds, or grass, where the road turned off to the insane asylum.†   (source)
  • I mean, as far as I can tell, this school used to be, like, an insane asylum, until maybe just two years ago.†   (source)
  • Now while she was locked up in the asylum, he went, people said, to the Midwest.†   (source)
  • We throw anyone who does not accept these analogues into an insane asylum.†   (source)
  • The first step of d'Anconia Copper, as of any other human value, has to come from here-because the rest of the earth has reached the consummation of the beliefs it has held through the ages: mystic faith, the supremacy of the irrational, which has but two monuments at the end of its course: the lunatic asylum and the graveyard...Sebastian d'Anconia committed one error: he accepted a system which declared that the property he had earned by right, was to be his, not by right, but by permission.†   (source)
  • In returning Antonio to the heirs of Captain Ferrer, Judson was also affirming that foreign slaves could not look to the United States for asylum.†   (source)
  • Most of them will probably be declined asylum, and there will be appeals, and it will take many months until in the end they're sent back.†   (source)
  • Where is your asylum?†   (source)
  • According to nurses in asylums and psychiatric wards, a greater number of their most disturbed patients responded to the Santa Ana winds than ever reacted to the sight of a full moon beyond a barred window.†   (source)
  • And when he was recovered from his injuries enough so that he could be moved without damage should he struggle, he was put in an asylum.†   (source)
  • I left her in an asylum.†   (source)
  • In 1887 he, too, was sent to an insane asylum, after brandishing a revolver in the legislature.†   (source)
  • I'm chief of the asylum down over to Roanoke.†   (source)
  • I could I It's like being in a lunatic asylum and having another patient all dressed up as a doctor come over to you and start taking your pulse or something.... It's just awful.†   (source)
  • Yes, California has been in the asylum.†   (source)
  • You're rooming in a goddam insane asylum.†   (source)
  • He was ready to keep this up for years, he told her, for "I cannot believe Providence intends to destroy this Nation, this great asylum for the oppressed of all other nations and build a slave Oligarchy on the ruins thereof."†   (source)
  • He was watching the conveyor belt of humanity flowing into the hall from passport control—the international peddlers of goods and services, the seekers of asylum and employment, the tourists who had come to see a country that no longer existed.†   (source)
  • JAMES: Some asylum.†   (source)
  • Or was now pathetically languishing in a lunatic asylum, so that the use of the past tense is merely sorrowfully euphemistic?†   (source)
  • From the time of the Red Alert, the highways had been jammed with carloads of refugees, seeking asylum they knew not where.†   (source)
  • Snuck her away to an asylum when her husband left her.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crooms, her second, was forty miles away in the state asylum and Mr. McIntyre, her last, was intoxicated, she supposed, in some hotel room in Florida.†   (source)
  • The hotel looked like a lunatic asylum abandoned by its staff —the stairways and corridors empty, everything in a state of chaos.†   (source)
  • Ahead, Asylum Avenue lay bleak beneath its lamps.†   (source)
  • The lunatic asylum!†   (source)
  • In an insane asylum.†   (source)
  • Lio was inviting Minerva to take asylum with him!†   (source)
  • The mechanic, Bill, had a wife who'd just had a baby boy when the asylum was closed.†   (source)
  • That old cat's the one who should be in the asylum.†   (source)
  • And without a moment's delay she sent Felipe for Dr. Brown to take Tita to an insane asylum.†   (source)
  • "The Asylum Cemetery has been robbed for years," he said, "and I doubt if there is a corpse in it.†   (source)
  • Ever since Joan left Caplan I'd followed her progress through the asylum grapevine.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt like he was entering some kind of underground insane asylum.†   (source)
  • Thus the private asylum is far beyond his reach at present.†   (source)
  • If you didn't eat your egg here you'd be carted off to the lunatic asylum or reported to the bishop.†   (source)
  • He's playing a guessing game, like Dr. Bannerling at the Asylum.†   (source)
  • Are you aware that you have the exact same name as the last warden of Brookline asylum?†   (source)
  • "I am not from the asylum," said Dumbledore patiently.†   (source)
  • It was past midnight, and the asylum quiet as death.†   (source)
  • Lio announced he was seeking asylum out of the country.†   (source)
  • I was put in a room like this before they sent me away to the Asylum.†   (source)
  • I think it belonged to the old asylum's warden or something.†   (source)
  • I was about to say, "Back to the asylum," but the man looked promising, so I changed my mind.†   (source)
  • He was also the only one who had dug deeper into the asylum's history.†   (source)
  • for a minute I wondered if Doctor Quinn was going to blame me for Joan's return to the asylum.†   (source)
  • Since her return from the Asylum, however, you say she denies it.†   (source)
  • Then there is no reason for you to go back to the Asylum, is there?†   (source)
  • Narrowing the parameters further, Dan typed in "Brookline AND history AND asylum."†   (source)
  • We were walking, just the two of us, with the Sports Therapist in the asylum gardens.†   (source)
  • But there was something else, too, a feeling that the asylum went deeper.†   (source)
  • Leafing blindly through a tatty National Geographic in the asylum library, I waited my turn.†   (source)
  • At least in the Lunatic Asylum you could see out better.†   (source)
  • I could not help but observe, that the enclosed letter is from the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto.†   (source)
  • "A serial killer lived at the asylum," Jordan burst out.†   (source)
  • And it was the same with Dr. Bannerling at the Asylum.†   (source)
  • That would have been seven years ago, shortly before they put me into the Lunatic Asylum.†   (source)
  • Do you want to see her back in the Asylum?†   (source)
  • He'll build a model Asylum, with well-tended grounds and the very best sanitation and drainage.†   (source)
  • He defected and was granted asylum by Säpo.†   (source)
  • Chucha had escaped from some canepickers' camp and was asking for asylum.†   (source)
  • I also filched my admissions sheet from the old asylum archives.†   (source)
  • Surely, the generous Americans or the benevolent British will grant me asylum, sir?†   (source)
  • I'm a crazy woman from the insane asylum.†   (source)
  • That's why they make those people in the asylum weave baskets and make rag rugs.†   (source)
  • It had upset Fälldin that an important Soviet agent had sought asylum in Sweden.†   (source)
  • This was the night the insane asylum burned down.†   (source)
  • She'd successfully tracked down the asylum where she'd spent the last years of her human life.†   (source)
  • Brave Orchid finally called her niece, who put Moon Orchid in a California state mental asylum.†   (source)
  • It was 1936 and her mother was in an asylum.†   (source)
  • From the very first days, the most pressing need was to secure asylum for those in danger of death.†   (source)
  • My body took asylum in a mental and physical paralysis.†   (source)
  • He came to Sweden, where he contacted the Security Police, Säpo, and sought asylum.†   (source)
  • We, they are from the asylum, but they are a work crew, not inmates, of course not.†   (source)
  • It's a gorgeous old crumbling house near the insane asylum.†   (source)
  • The rifle and the confusion of the faces and the room and no asylum.†   (source)
  • And instead of saying 'well done' and 'good girl,' they locked her up in an asylum.†   (source)
  • He was given asylum and began to work for Säpo.†   (source)
  • Your grandfather took me to an asylum after your mother was born.†   (source)
  • Do you get any noise from the insane asylum?†   (source)
  • They're counting on Salander landing back in the asylum while I disappear in a cloud of suspicion.†   (source)
  • It's interesting that people still call it the insane asylum.†   (source)
  • So Salander was locked up in an asylum because she tried to kill her father, this Zalachenko.†   (source)
  • Säpo conspired with a psychiatrist to lock Salander up in an asylum.†   (source)
  • The community pressure levied against him would have sent me to an asylum.†   (source)
  • "Maybe somebody new has escaped from the lunatic asylum," said Miss Hattie.†   (source)
  • KATE [CUTS IN]: Miss Annie, before you came we spoke of putting her in an asylum.†   (source)
  • You think you're going to get well now, or is it going to be back to the asylum with you?†   (source)
  • There were stories he'd been in and out of insane asylums himself.†   (source)
  • It sounds like you're in an asylum.†   (source)
  • She's so happy to see him that she temporarily tucks away her concerns about Skid Row and the asylum scene in the Lamp courtyard, where people are jawing at each other or settling scores with ghosts.†   (source)
  • He had once toured a mental asylum , this was years ago, when he had been researching Misery, the first of the four books which had been his main source of income over the last eight years , and he had seen this look ....or, more precisely, this unlook.†   (source)
  • Why does a University with under fifteen hundred students need an asylum the size of the royal palace?†   (source)
  • When the old one knew I was after his little friend, he stole her from the asylum where he worked — I never will understand the obsession some vampires seem to form with you humans — and as soon as he freed her he made her safe.†   (source)
  • It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and insane asylum once sat in East Baltimore.†   (source)
  • She goes atound a few turns, into kind of an open flat area surrounded by trees, and finds herself in what looks like an open-air insane asylum.†   (source)
  • They could have been going to do the laundry at the orphanage or the insane asylum; corn shucking at the mill; or to dean fish, rinse offal, cradle whitebabies, sweep stores, scrape hog skin, press lard, case-pack sausage or hide in tavern kitchens so whitepeople didn't have to see them handle their food.†   (source)
  • The Reftview Asylum in Tarbean was only a fraction the size of this place, and it sounded like a brothel full of angry cats.†   (source)
  • Mentally ill people by the hundreds were roaming the streets, and by night they became part of a box city asylum, with cardboard from the toy, flower and garment districts serving as sidewalk homes.†   (source)
  • She had escaped from the lunatic asylum and was roaming the world to pay for the crime of having insulted her mother.†   (source)
  • You can tell when Nora Molloy is ready for the asylum when you see her children running around white with flour from poll to toe.†   (source)
  • They attempted to rob a grave at the State Asylum for the Insane in Anchorage, Kentucky, this time on behalf of the University of Louisville.†   (source)
  • In between that calamity and this, they had visited George III in London, published a newspaper, made baskets, led Oglethorpe through forests, helped Andrew Jackson fight Creek, cooked maize, drawn up a constitution, petitioned the King of Spain, been experimented on by Dartmouth, established asylums, wrote their language, resisted settlers, shot bear and translated scripture.†   (source)
  • Was he granted asylum by the embassy or was he caught and locked up in La Fortaleza as my premonitions keep telling me?†   (source)
  • Her mother was a streetwalking flaghopper and her father escaped from a lunatic asylum with bunions on his balls and warts on his wank.†   (source)
  • With deep sorrow and perhaps a good deal of relief, Rick lodged his father in the McLean Asylum in Waverly, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • She imagined that the food in a lunatic asylum, a gringo one to boot, must be the most disgusting in the world.†   (source)
  • The champion pint drinker is always on the dole and sometimes he even drinks that and drives me so demented I wind up in the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • One night not long after that, Do told them that as soon as his contact in the capital could arrange for asylum, he and several others would be going into exile.†   (source)
  • During a period in September 1895 that he described as "the bitterest week of my life," he confessed to his friend Charles Eliot his terror that his condition soon would require that he be placed in an asylum.†   (source)
  • He loves his mother but he'll never get married for fear he might have a wife in and out of the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • The weapons on the wall had been used in actual homicides and were provided by Chicago policemen; the skulls by an alienist at a nearby lunatic asylum; the blanket by a member who had acquired it while covering a battle between the army and the Sioux.†   (source)
  • Jaimito called Lio a troublemaker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for asylum, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail.†   (source)
  • If the men didn't come from the lunatic asylum to take her away she'd bake till she fell to the floor.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he's like my father and drinks the dole itself and that's why Nora Molloy is often carted off to the lunatic asylum demented with worry over her hungry famishing family.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that Joan, hearing where I was, had engaged a room at the asylum on pretense, simply as a joke.†   (source)
  • We all assume Dennis Heimline died, of course, given the nature of the things he must have endured at the asylum.†   (source)
  • I had no idea if this was proper, but after months of wholesome, dull asylum diet, I was greedy for butter.†   (source)
  • It's a shame to move when we're so near Leamy's National School but if she doesn't move soon she'll go out of her mind and wind up in the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • He is her world, her heart's blood, her pulse, and if anything ever happened to him they might as well stick her in the lunatic asylum and throw away the key.†   (source)
  • Well, I admit I was just a boy myself when Warden Crawford took over the asylum, but the rumors of what happened under his regime are legend.†   (source)
  • I think she ended up in some asylum.†   (source)
  • She knows as long as you're in the asylum you're safe from the world and its torments, there's nothing you can do, you're protected, and what's the use of worrying.†   (source)
  • Dan shivered, unable to stop himself from imagining how patients in the old days felt when they were checked into the asylum.†   (source)
  • All I knew was that she had interested herself in my case and that at one time, at the peak of her career, she had been in an asylum as well.†   (source)
  • Och, och, och, he says, and I wonder if he's going demented like Mrs. Molloy, in and out of the lunatic asylum, but he says, Is that what you were worried about last night?†   (source)
  • And as he'd assured Paul and Sandy, Brookline was no longer an asylum; it had closed its doors in 1972 when the college purchased it to make a functional dorm with co-ed floors and communal bathrooms.†   (source)
  • I was due at the asylum for supper and I didn't want to be late so close to being signed out of there for good.†   (source)
  • He boils the hard bread in water and sour milk and throws in a cup of sugar and his brother loves it even if that's all they have the fortnight their mother is in the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • We have to get out of the asylum.†   (source)
  • An Asylum with large comfortable rooms, facilities for hydrotherapy, and a good many mechanical devices, could do very well.†   (source)
  • I spoke quietly into the mouthpiece of the asylum pay phone in the main hall of the administration building.†   (source)
  • It's well known that all the lunatics in the asylum have to be dragged in but she's the only one that has to be dragged out, back to her five children and the champion of all pint drinkers.†   (source)
  • Statistics about how many patients had been at the asylum at its peak, stories about how when it closed in 1972 patients had been relocated to other hospitals or released ...Repeatedly, Dan came across references to the difficulties Brookline had had in keeping a warden.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't know mad when they saw it in any case, because a good portion of the women in the Asylum were no madder than the Queen of England.†   (source)
  • Irwin offered to drive me home, but I didn't see how I could let him drive me to the asylum, so I dug in my pocket-book for Joan's address.†   (source)
  • Will they take me back to the Asylum?†   (source)
  • The only other address I had was the innocuous box number which people used who didn't want to advertise the fact they lived in an asylum.†   (source)
  • His father, Peter, brings books from the Carnegie Library so that he'll have something to do when he's not drinking pints or when he's looking after the family anytime Mrs. Molloy is in the lunatic asylum.†   (source)
  • It was my impression that for a considerable time past she had been sufficiently sane to warrant her removal from the Asylum.†   (source)
  • Nora Molloy is inside screeching after Peter that if they go they can stay gone, she's done baking bread, she's never going to the lunatic asylum again, if he brings that child home drunk she'll go to Scotland and disappear from the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday.†   (source)
  • And do you remember the time she visited you, just a short time after that, in the Provincial Asylum?†   (source)
  • The car had skidded on the glassy hill up to the asylum and backed, with one wheel over the rim of the drive, into a steep drift.†   (source)
  • — DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†   (source)
  • And when people found out my mind had gone, as they would have to, sooner or later, in spite of my mother's guarded tongue, they would persuade her to put me into an asylum where I could be cured.†   (source)
  • At first I had thought it would be awful having Buddy come and visit me at the asylum-he would probably only come to gloat and hobnob with the other doctors.†   (source)
  • You are just like them at the Asylum, and the prison chaplains, and Dr. Bannerling and his filthy ideas!†   (source)
  • The matrons at the Asylum were all fat and strong, with big thick arms and chins that went straight down into their necks and prim white collars, and their hair twisted up like faded rope.†   (source)
  • Patients, with accompanying nurses, made their rounds of the stocked shelves, conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna of the asylum herself.†   (source)
  • It seemed she had two or three daughters, and that year they were all going to be debutantes, only she had loused up their debutante party by signing herself into the asylum.†   (source)
  • I understand that there were irregularities at the Asylum as well — so much so that Grace Marks, upon her return from it, was suspected of being in a delicate condition.†   (source)
  • He likes to picture the sufferings as well, and nothing will do but that I have to tell him some story or other about being in the Penitentiary, or else the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto.†   (source)
  • I even thought I heard her voice, rustling and hushing through the dark, but then I realized it was only the night wind in the asylum trees.... Another tap woke me in the frost-gray dawn.†   (source)
  • If Dr. Jordan keeps on with this disorderly course of thought, he will soon belong in the private asylum for lunatics, which, if I recall aright, he was once so set upon establishing.†   (source)
  • I looked at her with surprise, because although I knew who she was, and often passed her, with a brief nod, in the asylum hall, I never spoke to her at all.†   (source)
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