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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
  • The Bible say, "The Lord is my refuge . . . and my strength!"   (source)
    refuge = something giving 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
  • He took refuge in work.   (source)
    refuge = shelter (found 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.   (source)
    refuge = protection (a safe place)
  • I didn't realize that this refuge from the world would be so uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • If a church is no longer a place of refuge, what's the point of it?†   (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)
  • Things were falling apart, and the halls of school were no exception or refuge from the chaos outside.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Maybe we could find refuge in the usual spots Tess and I hide.†   (source)
  • Ages ago, when just being a Catholic could get you hung from a tree, clergyfolk came here seeking refuge.†   (source)
  • Everyone seemed to have taken refuge in my house, as if pursued.†   (source)
  • The Palaces had been conceived as humane options—refuges for the infected until they reached a point where the madness took over.†   (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)
  • Sometimes, when she'd had a particularly difficult day, Lacy would take refuge on the roof of the hospital.†   (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)
  • As a last defense I had always taken refuge in a scornful superiority, based on nothing.†   (source)
  • It was the twins she should go for—they would be her refuge.†   (source)
  • And even more had found refuge under loose shingles and were on their way to climbing up to the roof.†   (source)
  • He was taking his family of three wives and their children to seek refuge in his motherland.†   (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)
  • Shivering from cold and fear, the four of us remained in our cramped refuge until dusk.†   (source)
  • Playing the stock market, of course, the last refuge in the world for the dangerous intellectual out of a job.†   (source)
  • She had a feeling that the child needed that comforting refuge even more than she did herself.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Unwilling to seek refuge in fiction, Estha said nothing.†   (source)
  • And this place could be my refuge.†   (source)
  • That was where Vrael took refuge, and where, through treachery, he was found and defeated by Galbatorix.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Desperate to restore his health and creative inspiration, Gogol sought refuge in a series of spas and sanatoriums.†   (source)
  • Leale scanned the street for a refuge.†   (source)
  • Taking the final refuge of all men, attempting to escape beyond the doors of death.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a few figures returned, fleeing across vermilion sands to the refuge of Chronos Keep twenty kilometers to the southwest.†   (source)
  • It was his refuge, his joy, his hobby.†   (source)
  • Rano and I sought refuge in the street.†   (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)
  • I kept to the fronts of buildings, ducking into doorways when necessary, until I finally took refuge in the abandoned chandler's shop.†   (source)
  • Stuffing the other letters under the doormat, she ran around into the back garden and sought refuge in the den.†   (source)
  • I found refuge from the freezing wind in a ditch and I carried a pocketful of small paper strips.†   (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)
  • First a playroom (where the silence was softer), then a refuge (from her brothers' fright), soon the place became the point.†   (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)
  • The rest had taken refuge on Olympus.†   (source)
  • The lump came back to my throat as I stared at the little place that had once been my refuge.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Email is a safe, convenient cover, the last refuge of the small-minded and the profane.†   (source)
  • Does he want some company, refuge from his family?†   (source)
  • Eventually, though, even the Ziatys' home failed to provide refuge.†   (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)
  • Bare Bones For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison.†   (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)
  • SINKCHART: map of the Arrakis surface laid out with reference to the most reliable paracompass routes between places of refuge.†   (source)
  • Even into the refuge of the Valle de los Lunas it reaches.†   (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)
  • "Excuses are the refuge of cowards," the Sicilian interrupted.†   (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)
  • Maybe he's had to take refuge in the temporary holding closet Vic advised him and the others to construct?†   (source)
  • Refuge, as sought by refugees, or escape, as sought by victims?†   (source)
  • Apparently they'd been wandering through the mall for two days, lost, confused and frightened, before taking refuge in the littered kiosk.†   (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)
  • The city would be the hot zone, and the floating ship would be the gray area, the place of refuge for the doctors.†   (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)
  • We took refuge in a nearby nurses' dormitory, where we heard bullets smashing into the wall of the building.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Now the brothers are taking refuge inside the sanctuary of Saigon's St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • She had been the refuge when he ran from school to school, job to job.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The porch is the first thing she always thinks of, because that was always her refuge, the place to which she fled.†   (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)
  • Throughout this sad ordeal, Adam sought moments of refuge, comradeship, and ultimately spiritual strength from Chaplain Springer.†   (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)
  • San Francisco was a welcome refuge—I might be a freak, but at least I was among many.†   (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)
  • "Give us refuge here," I pleaded.†   (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)
  • Since that day, Rasmussen had taken refuge at Rowan, offering his technical expertise.†   (source)
  • Later, a dour warrior in fur and amber went from cookfire to cookfire, urging all the survivors to head north and take refuge in the valley of the Thenns.†   (source)
  • Looking for refuge again, he joined the army.†   (source)
  • [Almost thirty thousand people sought refuge in Lincoln Park, which was still home to a number of graves†   (source)
  • If anything happened to Kevin, perhaps Grandmother could offer him safe refuge.†   (source)
  • Several times he was in churches in the capital when shooting started, and he took refuge behind pillars.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West.†   (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)
  • He took refuge, with his pious mother, in the Catholic church.†   (source)
  • Fredi's room became the refuge of tinkerers, inventors, and frustrated dreamers.†   (source)
  • It's the only refuge in the entire house.†   (source)
  • Not even the desert to take refuge in, unless I could somehow convince Dad to loosen the reins.†   (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)
  • After two songs, Meredith excused herself, and Vlad took refuge by the punch bowl.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Here, looking up, it is a refuge.†   (source)
  • It was the new building where she and Jonathan had taken refuge from the darklings.†   (source)
  • He racked his brains to think of a refuge, but the library was his refuge, and he'd been driven out.†   (source)
  • An aging tramp had taken refuge in the corner of her vestibule.†   (source)
  • But you have no talent for dishonesty, so your refuge must be ignorance and stubbornness.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Eventually, I take refuge in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Alessandro sought refuge by wrapping himself up in a ball in the quilt.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • MARTHA (Affects a brogue) Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.†   (source)
  • The early-morning refuge of the bakery delights Lourdes.†   (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)
  • He knew the way: west, and any shore would be his refuge, his safety, the end of his life.†   (source)
  • Hisham took refuge in silence.†   (source)
  • Taking refuge from my un-Christian attitude to the popular arts?†   (source)
  • Theresa, keeping out of range, sought refuge on the milk box near the driveway.†   (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)
  • She did not want to be married, but for the time being it was a refuge.†   (source)
  • There was no suggestion made as to how American slaveowners could obtain the slaves who had taken refuge in Canada.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The outside world no longer offered refuge; it had remained for me the great unknown and was, increasingly, perilous.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†   (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)
  • If necessary he can take refuge inside the checkpoint gatehouse and stay there till they go away.†   (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)
  • His only refuge was Amaranta's sewing room.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Without thinking, I rushed up the stairs and took refuge in the attic.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Perhaps there are periods of unconsciousness, but what can it matter if I can't find refuge in them?†   (source)
  • A number of Aryans sought refuge in the ghetto.†   (source)
  • The Hob was crowded with people looking for refuge from the weather.†   (source)
  • The apartment seems to be laid out exactly like the first one we took refuge in.†   (source)
  • There were other rocks visible from his refuge, distant stony spires taller than his own.†   (source)
  • Not only do I break their hearts, I steal their refuge, too.†   (source)
  • I took refuge there to get out of the rain—I mean, it was pouring and I was soaked.†   (source)
  • If Carvahall is taken, they can wait until the soldiers leave, then find refuge in Therinsford.†   (source)
  • He doesn't have any business there, but theaters are safe refuges no matter what city he's visiting.†   (source)
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