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asylum
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
(Edited)

It belongs to the asylum, and you're damn lucky to have it, if you ask me.

asylum = hospital for the mentally ill
The journey to the Mendlo Mental Asylum took twenty minutes but seemed much longer on the narrow back roads.
"Trixie was at the asylum this morning," Marijke said.
The asylum, Tamar thought.
I visit my aunt at the asylum two or three times a week.
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You'll call at the asylum at about nine o'clock, pick up the other transceiver, take it to the Grotiuses' house in Mendlo, and stand watch while Dart—Ernst Lubbers—sets everything up and makes his test transmission.
Dart sat huddled inside his overcoat on a cast-iron bench on the terrace of the Mendlo asylum, watching the lunatics.
The asylum superintendent's office had once been rather grand.
In the hidden room at the asylum, the wind moaned softly at the gap in the window, but Dart couldn't hear it.
Dart was finishing his meagre breakfast in the asylum's huge kitchen when Sister Agatha walked in, holding an infant.
Later, after more gin, Dart told tales of the asylum.
It was the third Sunday in the month, so the parish curate had walked out to the asylum—the Germans had taken his bike, and he damned them to hell for it—to hold a morning service.
In the hidden room at the Mendlo asylum, Dart paced back and forth between the couch and the blacked-out window.
There wasn't much he could contribute to the work of the asylum.
Tamar had forbidden the use of the ambulance; there were now only ten litres of petrol concealed at the asylum, and they needed to be hoarded, in case of an emergency, until more could be stolen.
Late in the morning of 6th December, in his bedroom at the asylum, Dart jolted awake from a Benzedrine nightmare in which large spiders with glass legs were walking on his face.
Drying them with rags didn't work, and he had to put them in the slow oven in the asylum kitchen.
When the reception committee has sorted the containers, we load the stuff for the asylum and the farm into the ambulance and spread a mattress over it.
When the asylum ambulance jolted into view, she leaned her forehead against the cold wall and let out her breath.
At the asylum they'd staggered out of the heavily laden ambulance, and she'd embraced and kissed him, which was startling.
All the inhabitants of the asylum seemed to have entered a state of suspended animation, as though they hoped to survive cold and hunger by dreaming themselves elsewhere.
Er …. actually, I'm based at the asylum.
You were at the asylum?
They had some connection with Albert Veening, so they'd had the bright idea of stashing it at the asylum.
Dart, his head still lowered, said, "I have a scheduled transmission from the asylum at eight twenty."
At the asylum, Tamar made a dangerously long call to Bobby on Albert Veening's antique telephone.
Trixie's going back to the asylum this afternoon.
While Roller and Grabowski were map-reading in the field kitchen, Dart was standing in the asylum garden watching the rooks.
After the German raid on the asylum, long after, Dart decided that there had to be something else, some secret working of the world, that went beyond even the miraculous.
If the Germans had come straight into the asylum, rather than wasting precious time positioning their machine gunners on the road.
He looked through the plane trees at the great brick face of the asylum.
She was very alarmed when she saw it was the asylum ambulance, and although she caught only a glimpse of the driver, she was quite sure it was Ernst.
To the asylum.
He'd shown up at the asylum with a German bullet in him, and he'd been holed up there for a few days.

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(1) (asylum as in: she sought asylum in...)
a shelter from danger or hardship
(2) (asylum as in: committed to the asylum)
a hospital for the mentally ill
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

asylum in Tamar, by Mal Peet (Edited)

asylum
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
(Edited)