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Definition

something giving protection — especially a safe place

refuge = safe place

refuge = protection

refuge = protection (in a safe place)

refuge = a safe place

If there was no water, no refuge, then they'd have nothing, not even hope.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

refuge = safe place

He took refuge in work.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

refuge = shelter (found a safe place)

The Bible say, "The Lord is my refuge . . . and my strength!"
August Wilson -- The Piano Lesson

refuge = something giving protection

Such a refuge would be to the liking of a dwarf.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

refuge = a safe place

There was ... no worker that did not belong to the workers, and found refuge with them, shared their life, spoke their language.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

refuge = protection (a safe place)

Weeping bitterly, she begged us to come to her village, where she could give us a safe refuge.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

refuge = shelter that is safe

He doubted he could make it to Big Thumb, and with no water in his canteen, he didn't want to risk his life on the hope that he'd find refuge there.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

refuge = a safe place

And if it was really the same place where his great-grandfather found refuge.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

refuge = a safe place

And even if they did find refuge on Big Thumb, he thought, they'd still have to come back here, eventually.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

refuge = a safe place

refuge = a safe place

When he was asked how he had lived so long, he said he "found refuge on God's thumb."
Louis Sachar -- Holes

refuge = a safe place

We pushed and jostled one another as if this were the supreme refuge, the gateway to life.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
The leaders of the block ran to assemble us inside, while the SS took refuge in the shelters.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
took refuge in lying
He knew the way: west, and any shore would be his refuge, his safety, the end of his life.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
SINKCHART: map of the Arrakis surface laid out with reference to the most reliable paracompass routes between places of refuge.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

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