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  • Heavenly, wonderful, miraculous Off!——above all, the Deep Woods variety, whose bitter flavor and greasy viscosity came to signify something as essential as food or water: a day unmauled by deerflies, a night of refuge from mosquitoes.   (source)
    refuge = protection
  • They made their way on foot to the Everlasting Forest, found refuge in a small clearing surrounded by trees that would alert them of approaching enemies.   (source)
    refuge = a safe place
  • The Bible say, "The Lord is my refuge . . . and my strength!"   (source)
    refuge = something giving protection
  • There was ... no worker that did not belong to the workers, and found refuge with them, shared their life, spoke their language.   (source)
    refuge = protection (a safe place)
  • The fourth time, the black ball shot around the room like a frightened sparrow, finally taking refuge in your jacket pocket.†   (source)
  • His mind racing, he muttered a greeting to Alfons and withdrew into his refuge at the back of the shop.†   (source)
  • Things were falling apart, and the halls of school were no exception or refuge from the chaos outside.†   (source)
  • It makes sense that he would tattoo himself with the symbol of Dauntless, his refuge, and even the symbol of Abnegation, his place of origin, like I did.†   (source)
  • And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.†   (source)
  • Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.†   (source)
  • There have been times—the times when my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated—when it has been a refuge, times when it has been a joy.†   (source)
  • There she found safe refuge in the Jewish community.†   (source)
  • It took them nearly ten minutes to catch Scabbers, who had taken refuge under a wastepaper bin outside Quality Quidditch Supplies.†   (source)
  • He banked the fire against the seam of rock where he'd built it and he strung the tarp behind them to reflect the heat and they sat warm in their refuge while he told the boy stories.†   (source)
  • Lee Grant settled into the car that would take him away from the farm where he'd found refuge, after running away from home.†   (source)
  • Listen, I can't tell you how it makes me feel that Daddy's taking some sort of refuge in being crazy now.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when she'd had a particularly difficult day, Lacy would take refuge on the roof of the hospital.†   (source)
  • Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design— more powerful and unstoppable than The Flying Yankee.†   (source)
  • The Palaces had been conceived as humane options—refuges for the infected until they reached a point where the madness took over.†   (source)
  • Ages ago, when just being a Catholic could get you hung from a tree, clergyfolk came here seeking refuge.†   (source)
  • As a last defense I had always taken refuge in a scornful superiority, based on nothing.†   (source)
  • He was taking his family of three wives and their children to seek refuge in his motherland.†   (source)
  • And even more had found refuge under loose shingles and were on their way to climbing up to the roof.†   (source)
  • Maybe we could find refuge in the usual spots Tess and I hide.†   (source)
  • It was the twins she should go for—they would be her refuge.†   (source)
  • The rain drove us into the church—our refuge, our strength, our only dry place.†   (source)
  • The room also served as her refuge from the family's attacks.†   (source)
  • She had a feeling that the child needed that comforting refuge even more than she did herself.†   (source)
  • Unwilling to seek refuge in fiction, Estha said nothing.†   (source)
  • By the afternoon of day two, the snow was three feet deep and my little metal but began to feel less like a refuge than a sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • Playing the stock market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.†   (source)
  • I had always thought of it as a pro bar, as in professional alcoholics bar, and I saw the proof as lonely men sat hovering over glasses of Tennessee's finest, hoping for refuge from life's problems.†   (source)
  • Shivering from cold and fear, the four of us remained in our cramped refuge until dusk.†   (source)
  • Mine was reading Walden; and I hid myself in the coolness and silence of the book, a refuge from the sheet-metal glare of the desert.†   (source)
  • After the pogroms in 1938 my two uncles (my mother's brothers) fled Germany, finding safe refuge in North America.†   (source)
  • Enrique also provides a refuge from her own problems.†   (source)
  • For a moment I have an image of a lone stranger, sometime far in the future, wandering lost in the wilderness and coming upon this small place of refuge, with the pile of split logs, the hearth, the poker.†   (source)
  • That was where Vrael took refuge, and where, through treachery, he was found and defeated by Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • When she took refuge from a bad dream with him, nothing could lull her to sleep better than Mo's calm breathing beside her and the sound of the pages turning.†   (source)
  • Rano and I sought refuge in the street.†   (source)
  • And this place could be my refuge.†   (source)
  • First a playroom (where the silence was softer), then a refuge (from her brothers' fright), soon the place became the point.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a few figures returned, fleeing across vermilion sands to the refuge of Chronos Keep twenty kilometers to the southwest.†   (source)
  • I grabbed a shovel and pickax and walked to the pea patch, which hugged the white pines where Marley had sought potty refuge the previous winter.†   (source)
  • Taking the final refuge of all men, attempting to escape beyond the doors of death.†   (source)
  • When they turned into Karmelicka Street, which was so crowded that with the best will in the world people could not take refuge in doorways, the Gestapo men would lean out and beat the crowd indiscriminately with truncheons.†   (source)
  • Desperate to restore his health and creative inspiration, Gogol sought refuge in a series of spas and sanatoriums.†   (source)
  • Pari steps beneath the awning of a brasserie to take refuge from the rain a few blocks west of the hospital where Zahia does part of her training.†   (source)
  • It was his refuge, his joy, his hobby.†   (source)
  • Email is a safe, convenient cover, the last refuge of the small-minded and the profane.†   (source)
  • The rest had taken refuge on Olympus.†   (source)
  • I kept to the fronts of buildings, ducking into doorways when necessary, until I finally took refuge in the abandoned chandler's shop.†   (source)
  • My sisters and I love to lounge there in the hammocks, and we longed for refuge there even on the day of our first downpour.†   (source)
  • It began as a public housing area for the poor, and by the time of the war, it had become a refuge for Shiites, who were discriminated against by Saddam's Sunni-dominated government.†   (source)
  • Stuffing the other letters under the doormat, she ran around into the back garden and sought refuge in the den.†   (source)
  • 'They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness.†   (source)
  • "Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt," she told him.†   (source)
  • The lump came back to my throat as I stared at the little place that had once been my refuge.†   (source)
  • I found refuge from the freezing wind in a ditch and I carried a pocketful of small paper strips.†   (source)
  • Besides, I had come to understand that silence was my wife's last refuge, not a mental illness as Dr. Cuevas said it was.†   (source)
  • Their warriors form the backbone of the Taliban forces, and their families grant those forces shelter in high mountain villages, protecting them and providing refuge in places that would appear almost inaccessible to the Western eye.†   (source)
  • Eventually, though, even the Ziatys' home failed to provide refuge.†   (source)
  • Leale scanned the street for a refuge.†   (source)
  • Aunt Escolastica was a refuge of understanding and affection for the only child of a loveless marriage.†   (source)
  • Bare Bones For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison.†   (source)
  • Even into the refuge of the Valle de los Lunas it reaches.†   (source)
  • Does he want some company, refuge from his family?†   (source)
  • The defenders of the police, on the other hand, invariably take refuge in what Fyfe calls the split-second syndrome: An officer goes to the scene as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • SINKCHART: map of the Arrakis surface laid out with reference to the most reliable paracompass routes between places of refuge.†   (source)
  • But I wonder how things might have been different if my father was part of a family business that gave him structure and a steady paycheck instead of working in a bar, the worst place for a man like him—or if my mother had been surrounded by women, sisters and nieces, perhaps, who could have provided relief from destitution and loneliness, a refuge from strangers.†   (source)
  • Apparently they'd been wandering through the mall for two days, lost, confused and frightened, before taking refuge in the littered kiosk.†   (source)
  • Throughout this sad ordeal, Adam sought moments of refuge, comradeship, and ultimately spiritual strength from Chaplain Springer.†   (source)
  • He had merely been taking refuge in the outward adventure in order to avoid the clash and tension of the adventure proceeding inexorably within.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's had to take refuge in the temporary holding closet Vic advised him and the others to construct?†   (source)
  • The city would be the hot zone, and the floating ship would be the gray area, the place of refuge for the doctors.†   (source)
  • In the organized chaos of the hospital, in the labyrinth of corridors, in the stink and confinement of its walls, he found both order and refuge; he found home.†   (source)
  • The moose, their favorite source of food, took refuge from the penetrating cold by staying in one place, and were difficult to find.†   (source)
  • The Blockalteste gathered us inside the blocks, while the SS took refuge in the shelters.†   (source)
  • She had been the refuge when he ran from school to school, job to job.†   (source)
  • At seventeen, in need of a refuge, Latham enlisted in the Army; two years later, found guilty of an AWOL offense, he was imprisoned in the stockade at Fort Hood, Texas.†   (source)
  • "Excuses are the refuge of cowards," the Sicilian interrupted.†   (source)
  • The porch is the first thing she always thinks of, because that was always her refuge, the place to which she fled.†   (source)
  • The children, wild and shy as young foxes, had stolen to the door of the cabin, in which they had taken refuge, and were staring out wonderingly.†   (source)
  • She eluded him all the time, refused to meet his eyes, sought refuge in the children...He watched the girl now, looking at the jeans covering the flesh he had seen exposed and unclothed a few moments ago.†   (source)
  • To the British and those Loyalists who had taken refuge in Boston, they were simply "the rebels," or "the country people," undeserving the words "American" or "army."†   (source)
  • It was as though she had found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.†   (source)
  • He slipped away through fields and forests, his precious old instrument under his arm, to seek out refuge in the hall of some lesser marauder.†   (source)
  • He was, however, apprehended, and in court when he was questioned as to his movements on the day of the crime, he replied that after he heard that he was being sought he took refuge in Mrs. Henderson's Store.†   (source)
  • Several times he was in churches in the capital when shooting started, and he took refuge behind pillars.†   (source)
  • Not even the desert to take refuge in, unless I could somehow convince Dad to loosen the reins.†   (source)
  • Every time she met Orr after that, she'd hoist her skirts up over her tight white elastic panties and, jeering coarsely, bulge her firm, round belly out at him, cursing him contemptuously and then roaring with husky laughter as she saw him giggle fearfully and take refuge behind Yossarian.†   (source)
  • Looking for refuge again, he joined the army.†   (source)
  • Those that wish may find refuge here at Rowan—in fact, you've already met some of them.†   (source)
  • "Give us refuge here," I pleaded.†   (source)
  • Ehon-skinned Jalabhar Xho was an exile who had no other refuge, Lady Ermesande a babe seated on her wet nurse's lap.†   (source)
  • San Francisco was a welcome refuge—I might be a freak, but at least I was among many.†   (source)
  • This convent was my refuge, a place of sunshine and of death where very early in the morning the clap of a wooden signal woke the nine of us who slept in the long dormitory.†   (source)
  • As Christ's servants we offer a refuge for people in need and a promise of atonement through prayer and the sacrament of baptism.†   (source)
  • Now the brothers are taking refuge inside the sanctuary of Saigon's St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West.†   (source)
  • Even though they may live and sleep above ground for months at a time, they prefer not to be out of distance of some sort of refuge that will serve for a hole.†   (source)
  • Here, looking up, it is a refuge.†   (source)
  • It was as if he commenced upon a journey at the moment of Elinor's death, and every day he moved farther and farther away, seeking for some refuge in the recesses of his own mind.†   (source)
  • Her father's office had always been a source of refuge for her.†   (source)
  • If you survive that long, you may eventually find refuge.†   (source)
  • He took refuge, with his pious mother, in the Catholic church.†   (source)
  • After two songs, Meredith excused herself, and Vlad took refuge by the punch bowl.†   (source)
  • Men and women, scattered from homeland, family, friends, wander desolate and uncertain, scorched by a toxic sun.... In this desert of frightened, blind uncertainty, some take refuge in the pursuit of power.†   (source)
  • Next she entered Elysium, the name of the mythical underground city where, according to bedtime stories parents told their children, humans took refuge after the Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • He racked his brains to think of a refuge, but the library was his refuge, and he'd been driven out.†   (source)
  • It's the only refuge in the entire house.†   (source)
  • God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.†   (source)
  • I discover that this one tiny refuge of scrub pines where I have put the sleeping bags is also the refuge from the wind of millions of mosquitos up from the reservoir.†   (source)
  • He walked several yards to the right, flanked by pedestrians, then suddenly ran, wedging his way into a curious crowd taking refuge in a storefront, his attention on the automobiles at the curb.†   (source)
  • Eventually, I take refuge in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • As Sedgwick saw it, the Amistads were foreign nationals seeking refuge and justice just as the Cubans were, and the defense's claim all along had been that the law did not specify difference based on color.†   (source)
  • [Almost thirty thousand people sought refuge in Lincoln Park, which was still home to a number of graves†   (source)
  • We took refuge in a nearby nurses' dormitory, where we heard bullets smashing into the wall of the building.†   (source)
  • But you have no talent for dishonesty, so your refuge must be ignorance and stubbornness.†   (source)
  • The early-morning refuge of the bakery delights Lourdes.†   (source)
  • It was the new building where she and Jonathan had taken refuge from the darklings.†   (source)
  • Alessandro sought refuge by wrapping himself up in a ball in the quilt.†   (source)
  • If anything happened to Kevin, perhaps Grandmother could offer him safe refuge.†   (source)
  • An aging tramp had taken refuge in the corner of her vestibule.†   (source)
  • Fredi's room became the refuge of tinkerers, inventors, and frustrated dreamers.†   (source)
  • Refuge, as sought by refugees, or escape, as sought by victims?†   (source)
  • However, if even half of the people of the other nine communities sought refuge, Cassius would be hard-pressed to honor his pledge.†   (source)
  • But I believe that extreme positions—the things you start out with in a chemical reaction, the things you finish with (all people A bad, all people B good, no taxes at all, taxed to death)—all of these are impractical, unnatural, boring: the refuge of people who never want to change.†   (source)
  • In the months immediately following the crash, having taken refuge with Rose's friends in Southern California, the girl sleeps twelve to fourteen hours a day.†   (source)
  • MARTHA (Affects a brogue) Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.†   (source)
  • By this time, the novel was my refuge, my magic vehicle back to the Southwest land of sandstone mesas, blue sky, and sun.†   (source)
  • Hisham took refuge in silence.†   (source)
  • Theresa, keeping out of range, sought refuge on the milk box near the driveway.†   (source)
  • Taking refuge from my un-Christian attitude to the popular arts?†   (source)
  • He'd taken refuge there from the hogs.†   (source)
  • When the going got tough, patriotism became the last refuge not of the scoundrel but of the genuinely committed soldier.†   (source)
  • What used to be merely a wall surrounding the island was now home to over three hundred vampire guards and scouts who had sought refuge in The Shade and sworn to defend it.†   (source)
  • And so she passed that evening, her last in Israel, with no company other than the melancholy woman who had wrenched her from the refuge of her old life.†   (source)
  • He knew the way: west, and any shore would be his refuge, his safety, the end of his life.†   (source)
  • There was no suggestion made as to how American slaveowners could obtain the slaves who had taken refuge in Canada.†   (source)
  • She then made a cruise to Rio de Janeiro, carrying supplies of fuel for another American nuclear submarine that had taken refuge there, and returned to Melbourne to undergo a fairly extensive refit in the dockyard.†   (source)
  • I thought of Angeline and her pup cowering at the bottom of the den where they had taken refuge from the thundering apparition of the aircraft, and I was shamed.†   (source)
  • She did not want to be married, but for the time being it was a refuge.†   (source)
  • danced the Dance of the Statue, and even Lord Vishnu was coerced into celebrating again the steps of the Dance of the Amphora, as Murugan, in his new body, laughed at the world clad in all her oceans, and did his dance of triumph upon those waters as upon a stage, the dance that he had danced after the slaying of Shura, who had taken refuge in the depths of the sea.†   (source)
  • With the coming of spring Prospect Park, so close at hand, became Sophie's favorite refuge—wonderful to recall, a safe place in those days for a solitary and lovely blonde to wander.†   (source)
  • KELLER hops about, HELEN takes refuge with the candy down behind the pump, and KELLER then irately flings his newspaper on the porch floor, stamps into the house past VINEY and disappears.†   (source)
  • The outside world no longer offered refuge; it had remained for me the great unknown and was, increasingly, perilous.†   (source)
  • As soon as the fanfare is finished NORFOLK speaks) NORFOLK (Takes refuge behind a rigorously official manner) Sir Thomas More, you are called before us here at the Hall of Westminster to answer charge of High Treason.†   (source)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†   (source)
  • Cities and highways and people were not many miles away from us, no distance at all as such things are figured in these days, but between ourselves and whatever refuge they offered, those miles were all desert and mountains.†   (source)
  • She has hidden deeper within herself and found refuge and release in a dream where present reality is but an appearance to be accepted and dismissed unfeelingly— even with a hard cynicism-or entirely ignored.†   (source)
  • A pack of skeletal hounds intercepted us at the next house, snapped at the wheels of the jeep, then retreated to their shady refuge under the house.†   (source)
  • If I had known that he would take refuge here I would have awaited a more reasonable time for his correction.†   (source)
  • Eugene clung to the Spaniard now, almost as if he had waited for him a long time with longing, almost as if he loved him, and had found a lasting refuge.†   (source)
  • She took refuge, of all places, in the Loan Brokerage mat was the source of the Beaumont fortune.†   (source)
  • She took refuge in her own thoughts; or, rather, she lapsed into her familiar state, which was a dim mindlessness.†   (source)
  • There was a terrible storm; the stone-giants were out hurling rocks, and at the head of the pass we took refuge in a cave, the hobbit and I and several of our companions...   (source)
    refuge = shelter (found a safe place)
  • If necessary he can take refuge inside the checkpoint gatehouse and stay there till they go away.†   (source)
  • If Carvahall is taken, they can wait until the soldiers leave, then find refuge in Therinsford.†   (source)
  • He took refuge in perusing the letter again.†   (source)
  • Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.†   (source)
  • Their destination was indeed a refuge ....north of Washington's Tiber Creek.†   (source)
  • Now, seeing the willows swaying from side to side in the breeze, I longed for refuge once again.†   (source)
  • They left their refuge as soon as the passengers disembarked.†   (source)
  • The broken, dirty arbors served as a refuge for wild animals and a garbage dump for the neighbors.†   (source)
  • His only refuge was Amaranta's sewing room.†   (source)
  • I didn't realize that this refuge from the world would be so uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • Kit crept up the stairs, but the empty bedchamber was not the refuge she needed.†   (source)
  • A handful of the Quileutes had run to the ships for refuge.†   (source)
  • But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland.†   (source)
  • Everyone seemed to have taken refuge in my house, as if pursued.†   (source)
  • That's another reason I take refuge in the attic.†   (source)
  • Even in their confusion and panic, the Ousters offered me refuge.†   (source)
  • I came out of his room—my new refuge when he wasn't in it—and hurried down the stairs.†   (source)
  • I'll take my chances sneaking past the soldiers and finding refuge in Therinsford.†   (source)
  • Without thinking, I rushed up the stairs and took refuge in the attic.†   (source)
  • If a church is no longer a place of refuge, what's the point of it?†   (source)
  • To Cairnholm—may she always be our rock of refuge!†   (source)
  • Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge.†   (source)
  • A tavern is a safe place, a refuge of sorts.†   (source)
  • Rémy smiled, seeming to have no trouble with the apparent coincidence of Langdon's chosen refuge.†   (source)
  • All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world.†   (source)
  • Luckily, we'd taken refuge in the most fragrant room on the island.†   (source)
  • I took refuge in Margaret Weylin's room, and she was so pleased she talked endlessly.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza preferred to take refuge in her cabin.†   (source)
  • I had found my refuge, and I would treasure my time there.†   (source)
  • She wheeled and flew toward the refuge of the forest like an arrow from a bow.†   (source)
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