All 10 Uses of
refuge
in
The Two Towers
- Night seemed to have taken refuge under its great trees, creeping away from the coming Dawn.†
Chpt 3.3
- Meanwhile your people that are left, the women and the children and the old, should stay to the refuges that you have in the mountains.†
Chpt 3.6
- Men of that land called it Helm's Deep, after a hero of old wars who had made his refuge there.†
Chpt 3.7
- Such a refuge would be to the liking of a dwarf.
Chpt 3.7 *refuge = a safe place
- We took refuge in that guardroom over there; and we had rather a fright.†
Chpt 3.9
- Before he could conceal it, they saw through the mask the anguish of a mind in doubt, loathing to stay and dreading to leave its refuge.†
Chpt 3.10
- The hollow in which they had taken refuge was delved in the side of a low hill, at some little height above a long trenchlike valley that lay between it and the outer buttresses of the mountains.†
Chpt 4.3
- 'Well, here is our refuge,' said Faramir.†
Chpt 4.5
- For one thing, he knows little of Men, and sly though he is, your refuge is so hidden that perhaps he does not know that Men are concealed here.†
Chpt 4.6
- He would not rest on the ground so near the evil road, and after some debate they all climbed up into the crotch of a large holm-oak, whose thick branches springing together from the trunk made a good hiding-place and a fairly comfortable refuge.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
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(refuge) something giving protection or comfort -- especially a safe place