All 38 Uses of
asylum
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- We're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he's coming on the train tonight.†
p. 5.5 *
- "Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.†
p. 5.7 *
- From an orphan asylum!†
p. 5.9
- Mrs. Alexander Spencer was up here one day before Christmas and she said she was going to get a little girl from the asylum over in Hopeton in the spring.†
p. 6.1
- Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum and he set fire to the house at night—set it ON PURPOSE, Marilla—and nearly burnt them to a crisp in their beds.†
p. 7.2
- Only don't say I didn't warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.†
p. 7.8
- But there, SHE wouldn't shrink from adopting a whole orphan asylum if she took it into her head.†
p. 7.9
- Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you would be along for her presently.†
p. 10.8
- But the asylum was the worst.†
p. 12.7
- I don't suppose you ever were an orphan in an asylum, so you can't possibly understand what it is like.†
p. 12.7
- They were good, you know—the asylum people.†
p. 12.9
- But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum—only just in the other orphans.†
p. 12.9
- This morning when I left the asylum I felt so ashamed because I had to wear this horrid old wincey dress.†
p. 13.7
- A merchant in Hopeton last winter donated three hundred yards of wincey to the asylum.†
p. 13.8
- And there weren't any at all about the asylum, only a few poor weeny-teeny things out in front with little whitewashed cagey things about them.†
p. 15.6
- There was a girl at the asylum whose name was Hepzibah Jenkins, but I always imagined her as Rosalia DeVere.†
p. 18.4
- Were there no boys at the asylum?†
p. 24.4
- The matron of the asylum made them for me.†
p. 26.1
- There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy—at least in a poor asylum like ours.†
p. 26.1
- There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy—at least in a poor asylum like ours.†
p. 26.2
- This girl will have to be sent back to the asylum.†
p. 27.5
- I am not going to think about going back to the asylum while we're having our drive.†
p. 36.2
- I had to go to the asylum at Hopeton, because nobody would take me.†
p. 39.5
- They didn't want me at the asylum, either; they said they were over-crowded as it was.†
p. 39.6
- But of course I went while I was at the asylum.†
p. 39.9
- We send word, Matthew and I, for you to bring us a boy from the asylum.†
p. 42.6
- Can we send the child back to the asylum?†
p. 43.2
- "I'd rather go back to the asylum than go to live with her," said Anne passionately.†
p. 45.9
- They always made us do that at the asylum.†
p. 48.5
- Oh, at the asylum Sunday-school.†
p. 49.1
- I've heard it before—I heard the superintendent of the asylum Sunday school say it over once.†
p. 56.1
- The night before I went to the asylum I said good-bye to Violetta, and oh, her good-bye came back to me in such sad, sad tones.†
p. 57.9
- I had become so attached to her that I hadn't the heart to imagine a bosom friend at the asylum, even if there had been any scope for imagination there.†
p. 58.1
- She certainly was an odd-looking little creature in the short tight wincey dress she had worn from the asylum, below which her thin legs seemed ungracefully long.†
p. 62.4
- Maybe you'd better send me back to the asylum.†
p. 82.2
- I don't want to send you back to the asylum, I'm sure.†
p. 82.3
- As for Cordelia, she went insane with remorse and was shut up in a lunatic asylum.†
p. 204.9
- "I thought Marilla Cuthbert was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all.†
p. 230.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(asylum as in: she sought asylum in...) a shelter from danger or hardship
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(2)
(asylum as in: committed to the asylum) a hospital for the mentally ill