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something giving protection — especially a safe place
- "Have they no refuge or resource?" cried Scrooge.3 — The Second of the Three Spirits (99% in)
- In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door, and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts.3 — The Second of the Three Spirits (93% in)
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