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    refuge


    refuges


    1. The best way is to consistently emphasize that you are available to your grandchild--as a place of refuge, a listening ear, or anything else


    2. It is the sole refuge of humanity


    3. Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the


    4. Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most


    5. take refuge in the shade of a large tree


    6. So, from now on I will be Yvonne and I have taken refuge in the world of the living, hoping to avoid a dreadful danger which awaits me in the astral plains


    7. refuge behind a large rock that was close to the smallest of the


    8. The hall would be used as their refuge, cots were placed everywhere


    9. She was built on the mountain by people from the coast seeking refuge from ravaging pirates and so, it is isolated from the rest of the island


    10. Her little coloured houses offered care, rest and refuge

    11. In my imagination, beyond that light was my land of legend and fantasy, my refuge and my sanctuary


    12. I take refuge in practical comment as my emotions threaten to overwhelm me


    13. If they should attack your Hold, you may find refuge in my Hold


    14. a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us


    15. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble


    16. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God


    17. Next time … hmmm … although she didn’t repudiate the idea that she would need to take refuge in the house at some time in the future, at present, there was little sign that it would be necessary soon


    18. His single refuge from the inundation of celebrity was the time he still cherished with his sisters


    19. A refuge from the storm


    20. Despite the scene she’d witnessed, from the Plantation house window, this had become her private refuge

    21. But whoever takes refuge in me


    22. Bog Walk is a tropical watershed forest, and another attraction is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge


    23. His tranquility, and peace of mind, having been compromised at the Wayward Inn, Alec sought refuge at a far less crowded, and less refutable establishment, the Timber Wall Tavern; a dilapidated shack that made his former residence seem as grand as the Archenon


    24. The storm-darkened sky, beautiful in its dusky radiance, was a dire signal to cut her perceived losses and seek refuge for the night


    25. She still could recall her first memories of the Arboretum, a place she had grown to regard as a refuge


    26. Whatever stock, therefore, accumulated in the hands of the industrious part of the inhabitants of the country, naturally took refuge in cities, as the only sanctuaries in which it could be secure to the person that acquired it


    27. With the refuge in sight she made a final push forward, doing her best to run and keep one eye over her shoulder


    28. To dream that you are in a ship cabin indicates that are seeking some refuge from your emotions


    29. The main view screen on Captain Husim's bridge aboard the Borantus sprang from the gloom of the Waghtnin embedded cluster that was their refuge, to be filled with the illumined face of the Elf


    30. The Waghtnin was no longer a safe refuge and they were wrinkling out from it in all directions

    31. “Ayrim and a few of the other children who have found refuge here


    32. Now all the B’tari had gone, along with their mother ship, there was no place of refuge other than here at his old reconstructed moon base


    33. Nowadays he valued sleep more than ever, it was a welcome refuge: the comfort of dreams; of what he once had; of what he might have had, where possibilities were never crushed


    34. One was to repeat the “King's Oath,” a form of declaring allegiance to the sovereign; or the intended victim must break away from his captors and reach a certain spot on the outskirts of the town, which formed a sanctuary or place of refuge


    35. The green canes made a refuge for numbers of small animals, and if properly taken in hand, would probably have provided some lord of the forest to add to the spoils


    36. As our (collective) body of shared values continue to diminish under the dynamic influence of multiculturalism and where the evolution of self-contained communities, especially in our inner cities, continues mapping their (own) chartered course, such events must inevitably give rise to expanding pockets of diverse groups who, as a rule, feel more at ease in their (own) ethnic environments perceived to be culturally and socially sympathetic to their needs contrasted by ‖homogenous‖ groups who, increasingly threatened by ―foreign‖ values that provide little, if any meaning, seek refuge of their own


    37. Modern conventions have apparently lost its (reasoned) capacity to appreciate, at their face value, the (potential) pitfalls of unbecoming attitudes although (seemingly) encouraging the flaunting of anti-social behavior that is typically provided refuge in recently minted (psychogenic) disorders


    38. occupation by the enemy of his last harbour of refuge, gave pursuit and


    39. Be that what it may, having weighed the possibility of a third-party (George Wallace) and finding it untenable or perhaps untimely might be the better word, many (Conservatives) sought refuge in the Republican Party who many believed reflected their values


    40. Yet of these I have chosen, who have sought refuge in The Lord,

    41. For there is but One Refuge and One Way to be found


    42. His second objective would be met, knowing that he could find temporary refuge in the cave


    43. At last they were home and he could go to bed, the last refuge of the truly unhappy


    44. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm


    45. When there is no place of refuge at all, it is desperate ground


    46. Dissidents were often fleeing from their home countries to find refuge in neighboring nations


    47. Cardenas even gave refuge to Communist leader Leon Trotsky


    48. This likely led to the discontent in Cuba that caused over 125,000 Cubans to flee to Florida in boats or by seeking refuge in embassies


    49. In the third debate, the Democratic candidate took gratuitous refuge in the lesbianism of one of Republican Vice President Cheney’s daughter to defend his own position with respect with homosexuality


    50. …That wonder of geological treasures is an inexhaustible source of impressionist paints that make the sightseer sigh: “I wish I was a painter!” As in Alaska, that is a fascinating landscape, a feast for the senses, a true natural scenic orgy, a peaceful and tranquil refuge where to escape from the earthly problems that constantly besiege human beings














































    1. These ranged from generals upholding the law in southern states to Blacks working for the post office, one of the few secure refuges for minorities before the end of segregation


    2. Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty


    3. Today, the few descendants of the great Southern Plains bison herd are sheltered on private ranches and carefully tended in refuges like Caprock Canyons State Park at Quitaque, Texas


    4. refuges and rescue associations have been coping with for decades, and one the national


    5. Many houses in the Old City had these refuges


    6. one of the cellars or old refuges in the Old City, they have


    7. the mass of refuges and their families


    8. There were many safe refuges where the elderly, the pregnant, and the ill could stay to avoid any menace that might come


    9. Old men weren't refuges


    10. She was to stay at one of those refuges for timid ladies with connections in the Church which are scattered about Berlin and called _Christliche Hospiz_, places where, besides coffee and rolls, there are prayers and a harmonium for breakfast

    11. safe havens, and refuges of criminal conspirators


    12. Blind faith and unquestioning belief are the refuges of fools


    13. He had at least five small refuges in different parts of London in which he was able to change his personality


    14. In their narrow-mouthed caves the natives, whoever they might be, had refuges into which the huge saurians could not penetrate, while with their developed brains they were capable of setting such traps, covered with branches, across the paths


    15. the children and the old, should stay to the refuges that you have in the


    16. When the situation was not ripe, when the insurrection was not decidedly admitted, when the masses disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges were nailed up, and the street turned into a defile to help the army to take the barricade


    17. He had at least five small refuges in different parts of London, in which he was able to change his personality


    18. I proposed living in the street, and, if necessary, I was ready to sleep in one of the night refuges where they give you a piece of bread and a glass of tea as well as a night's lodging


    19. It seemed as if all that world, with all its inhabitants, strong and weak, with all their habitations, the refuges of the poor, or the gilded palaces for the comfort of the powerful of this world was at that twilight hour like a fantastic vision of fairy-land, like a dream which in its turn would vanish and pass away like vapour into the dark blue sky


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    Synonyms for "refuge"

    recourse refuge resort asylum sanctuary safety resource escape retreat exit opening shelter security harbourage cloister

    "refuge" definitions

    a safe place


    something or someone turned to for assistance or security


    a shelter from danger or hardship


    act of turning to for assistance