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Definition
something giving protection — especially a safe place
- With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realizing to what creatures night by night I lay exposed.Chapter 7 (24% in)
- But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.Chapter 7 (40% in)
- My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.Chapter 7 (94% in)
- I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon, and that I had still no weapon, no refuge, and no means of making a fire.Chapter 8 (49% in)
There are no more uses of "refuge" in The Time Machine.
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