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Sentences ending with refuge

She felt that this was the purer, the nobler, the better cause; and she rejoiced in the love of which he had spoken as the support and the stay of their future life together--as sheltering them like a tower of strength and a mighty refuge. [10]
Sorrow had brought them very near together; and though she had loved him before, now he had become her reliance and her refuge. [9]
At last Diomedes, the Queen's private secretary, appeared, to bring him, by her orders, to the mausoleum where she had taken refuge. [10]
One by one the others shirked the inquirers and joined us in our refuge. [5]
Flee ye to the Fort of Refuge. [11]
It was not the first time she had cried out her troubles against that great heart which had ever been her strong refuge. [9]
We and all that are about us here look over the waves longingly, contrasting the privations of this our birthplace with the opulent comfort of that happy refuge. [5]
He believed that Mr. Bentley understood perfectly why he had come, and the knowledge of the old gentleman's comprehension curiously added to his sense of refuge. [9]
But for this I'm making for the American border, beyond which, treaty or no treaty, a man gets refuge. [11]
Not only his happiness was involved, but Mademoiselle's, her father's and her mother's, and lastly that of this poor hunted woman herself, who thought at last to have found a refuge. [9]

Short sentences using refuge

I wanted refuge. [9]

Sentences containing refuge two or more times

After Chiltern's death she had sought a refuge, and she had found it here: a refuge in which she meant--if her intention may be so definitely stated--to pass the remainder of her days. [9]

More example sentences with the word refuge in them

I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
Where the valleys widened we came to silent, decorous little towns and villages where yellow-lit windows gleaming through the trees suggested refuge and peace, while we were wanderers in the night. [9]
Besides Russian families who had taken refuge here from the fire with their belongings, there were several French soldiers in a variety of clothing. [2]
The caution with which Charmian had concealed Barine's refuge had not escaped her notice, and she did not ask to learn it. [10]
No one knew what Lindau's religion was, and in default they had had the Anglican burial service read over him; it seems so often the refuge of the homeless dead. [8]
Even then it was not love I felt but an unnamed sentiment for one whom I clothed with gifts and attributes I admired: constancy, an ability to suffer and to hide, decision, wit, refuge for the weak, scorn for the false. [9]
His mother and two noble sons were snatched from him in a day; and he would again have had recourse to poison as a refuge from all, if a dim ray of hope had not permitted him to believe in their escape. [10]
Some of the Tories (for such we were pleased to call them) took refuge behind Mr. Fairbrother's skirts, who shook his cane angrily enough, but without avail. [9]
Besides, if he took refuge on the rock, there could be no grudge against Perce village or the Mattingleys, and Richambeau would not injure them. [11]
Mrs. Mavick used to say that in her apartments she found refuge in a sublimated domesticity. [4]
He got suddenly to his feet, and started forward, as though to find refuge from himself. [11]
Evelyn had come to her refuge for comfort, and to Evelyn the comforter it was she herself who must be the comforter. [4]
Cynthia must come to her at the first sign of doubt or trouble: this, Miss Lucretia's house, was to be a refuge in any storm that life might send--and Miss Lucretia's heart. [9]
How she longed to fly into them, none but herself knew--to fly into them as into a refuge secure against the evil powers of the world. [9]
The first hundred to arrive, ten hours in a hot car without food or water, were laid groaning on the bottom of great furniture vans, and carted to the new House of Refuge Hospital, two miles to the south of the city. [9]
He has a thousand things--the woman has nothing, nothing at all except the refuge of home, that for which she gave up everything! [11]
Generous-hearted people would think that these grown- up sons and daughters should have returned the old people's long toil and care by buying up the farm and handing it back to them, their rightful refuge in the decline of life. [11]
He chuckled to think how he had provided himself with a refuge against his hour of trouble. [11]
After some time, they left their place of refuge from the weather, and mingled with the concourse. [12]
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? [6]
Then there is the refuge of Seleucus of Antioch. [10]
We next find the Major, on the 21st July, 1759, piloting the expedition sent to Deschambault to seize, as prisoners, the Quebec ladies who had taken refuge there during the bombardment--"Mesdames Duchesnay and Decharnay; Mlle. [11]
A member of the Ladies' Temperance Refuge fished him out, took him in hand, got up a subscription for him, kept him sober a whole week, then got a situation for him. [5]
To think that the hiding-place for his liquor was the unused, almost unknown, cellar of that very church, built a hundred years before as a refuge from the Indians, which he had reached by digging a tunnel from the shore to its secret passage! [11]
I was in the heaven-provided refuge of the oppressed and the forsaken! [5]
The Seigneur and the Cure had ceased listening to the babble of M. Dauphin, who seemed not to know that his audience closed its ears and found refuge in a "Well, well! [11]
As he put the apron carefully on ma couzaine, he determined that he could not take refuge with the Mattingleys. [11]
They've a thought that, maybe, Pretty Pierre has taken refuge with you. [11]
I feel sometimes that phrenology is the refuge of mediocrity. [4]
And you said that our nation was to be a refuge of the oppressed of this earth, a nation made of all peoples, out of all time. [9]
I bade him thank the chaplain for me, and opening the book, I found a leaf turned down at the words, "In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. [11]
Dada clung in terror to Marcus, who was beginning to be seriously alarmed for her when, looking round for aid or refuge, he caught sight of his brother forcing his way through the throng, and gesticulating vehemently. [10]
Now came a sword-fish chasing a bonito; and the poor thing, seeking help and friends, took refuge under the rudder. [5]
Was there no such thing, could there be no such thing as a human association that might at the same time be a divine organism, a fold and a refuge for the lost and divided minds? [9]
Three years of struggle, and then her father had died, and the refuge for her vexed, defiant heart was gone. [11]
On cold and stormy winter nights, to the traveler wearily dragging along in his creaking sleigh, the light from its windows suggests a house of refuge and the cheer of a blazing fire. [4]
Jethro liked the spot, and was in the habit sometimes of taking refuge there when the atmosphere of the Pelican House became too thick. [9]
If he were spared, she prayed for strength to consecrate herself to him A book lay on the table, and Virginia took refuge in it. [9]
Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. [7]
The white, placid snow made a coverlet as wide as the vision of the eye, save where spruce and cedar trees gave a touch of warmth and refuge here and there. [11]
The Indians had shot at a party shelling corn at Captain Bowman's plantation, and killed two, while the others had taken refuge in the crib. [9]
Mingled with this sense of emancipation was a curious feeling of regret, of mourning for something I had never valued, something fixed and dependable for which he had stood, a rock and a refuge of which I had never availed myself!... [9]
Yet vehement indignation seized him when he heard from Biberli that the slanderer's malice would force Eva to seek refuge with the Sisters. [10]
I no longer seemed to find refuge in my work. [9]
He liked this room of his, which still retained something of that flavour of a refuge and sanctuary it had so eminently possessed in the now forgotten days of matrimonial conflict. [9]
Behold America, the refuge of the oppressed from everywhere (who can pay fifty dollars' admission)--any one except a Chinaman--standing up for human rights everywhere, even helping China let people in free when she wants to collect fifty dollars upon them. [5]
O sweet, tranquil refuge of oblivion, so far as earth is concerned, for us poor blundering, stammering, misbehaving creatures who cannot turn over a leaf of our life's diary without feeling thankful that its failure can no longer stare us in the face! [6]
Instead, he took refuge in the usual commonplace, and asked, "Wouldn't you like to have been a man? [4]
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. [11]
In time this refuge becomes a sort of "yard," surrounded by unbroken snow-banks. [4]
Jethro had taken refuge and found comfort in his love. [9]
He was a raving, deafening, devastating typhoon, laying waste the cowering seas but with an unvexed refuge in the centre where all comers were safe and at rest. [5]
He sought a quiet refuge, and in Joseph Alexeevich's study he really found it. [2]
This was less quickly accomplished than he had hoped; for one had taken refuge in the nearest cellar, whose opening was too narrow for the men to follow. [10]
E'en if I plead would she care?-- Sweet is the refuge of scorn. [11]
At that early period, as Mr. Galton has remarked, almost all the men of a gentle nature, those given to meditation or culture of the mind, had no refuge except in the bosom of a Church which demanded celibacy (28. [1]
Another and more peremptory ring forbade them refuge in this simple expedient. [8]
Night was drawing on, and then where could she take refuge and find shelter? [10]
I could hear on all sides the tinkle of bells, the cracking of sticks, and the stamping of cattle that were taking refuge in the thicket from the flies. [4]
At the top of this rock stood a tower built of rough blocks, in which the anchorites were wont to take refuge when they were threatened with a descent of their foes. [10]
The holy men of the early Church, beholding it from the shore of Normandy, had marked it for a refuge from the storms of war and the follies of the world. [11]
During the rest of our visit he seemed to have recovered something of his former spirits and poise, taking refuge in the past. [9]
In a world of impending chaos the brilliantly lighted office was a tiny refuge to which she clung. [9]
In that group of impassioned individualities, March felt him a refuge and comfort--with his harmless dilettante intention of some day writing a novel, and his belief that he was meantime collecting material for it. [8]
O mystic wings of Art, about thee Truth Makes atmosphere of purity and power; 'Tis man's breath kills the spring's soft-petaled flower-- Ye give a refuge for the heart of youth. [11]
All the population of a town might have found refuge in the vast edifice and its effect on the mind was like that of a harmonious symphony of adoration sung by a chorus of giants. [10]
One Janvrin, ill of a fell disease, and with his fellows forbidden by the Royal Court to land, had taken refuge here, and died wholly neglected and without burial. [11]
The explorers were now assailed with violent storms, and at last took refuge for two days on some uninhabited islands, which by reason of the ill weather and the hurly-burly of thunder, lightning, wind, and rain, they called "Limbo. [4]
But we shall not forget the two eggs, fresh from the hens, whose temperature must have been above the normal, nor the spring-house in the glen, where we found a refuge from the flies and the heat. [4]
So this was New Caledonia, the home of outcast, criminal France, the recent refuge of Communist exiles, of Rochefort, Louise Michel, Felix Rastoul, and the rest! [11]
You shall be my refuge, my strength, my guide. [9]
But she heard Mrs. Pomfret's voice on the landing above and fled, as to a refuge, into the dark drawing-room, where she stood for a moment motionless, listening for the sound of his sleigh-bells as they fainted on the winter's night. [9]
When Philip was miserable about this, he always took refuge with Alice, who was never moody, and who generally laughed him out of his sentimental nonsense. [5]
What do you mean by making a refuge of me, when there's nothing for me in it, not even the satisfaction of going into the Divorce Court with you? [11]
Advise and teach me; let me find a refuge at your feet, if sometimes the longing for home becomes too strong, and my poor heart too weak to bear its grief or joy alone. [10]
You must hear me say once more what I have so often represented to you before now: If we renounce our city of refuge here and venture out into the wide world again, what shall we find that will be an improvement? [10]
More than once Mattingley had looked at Perch Rock curiously, but whenever the thought of it as a refuge came to him, he put it away. [11]
And the rich man, who had gained everything he wanted in life except happiness, lighted his cigar and sought refuge in a tale of modern life, that was, however, too much like his own history to be consoling. [4]
I did not like to seem disappointed with my reception in the good land of refuge for the oppressed, and so I looked and spoke as cheerily as I could. [5]
She could not, like her mother, find a silly refuge in shining dishes, in cleaning pots and pans, or sit idle, vacant-minded, for long hours in a spotless kitchen. [9]
Here was the last refuge of the hillsmen if they should ever be driven from the Neck of Baroob. [11]
That refuge had its sequestered glades, if perchance it was unilluminating and rather heavily decorous; so that he could let the climbers, the toadies, the gold-spillers, and the bribers have the middle of the road. [11]
But I need it not; I go for refuge to my Father's house. [11]
A fitting refuge, it might be, for a great spirit heavy with the sins of the world below. [9]
As a refuge it had become dear to her. [9]
Yes; but patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. [5]
Criticism by comparison is the refuge of incapables, and especially is this true in literature. [4]
And that which is my best and surest comfort is that for many long years I have administered justice in this land, and never, never once--and Thou my Refuge and Comforter art my witness!--never once consciously or willingly have I been an unrighteous judge. [10]
He had stolen into the village from the north, and, afraid to trust any one except this faithful member of his company, had taken refuge in a place where, if the worst came to the worst, he could defend himself, for a time at least. [11]
I deluded myself into believing that I had found friends and a refuge at last. [9]
He sought refuge in thin thought; he strove, in oblivion, to drain the cup of the hour of its nectar, even as he had done before. [9]
Some took refuge in the mountains; but the greater part fled to the city, in such confusion that they overturned and trampled upon each other. [4]
When the heat in the little dining-room grew unbearable, they were driven to take refuge on the front steps shared in common with the household of the barber. [9]
Thither she went in fear from her refuge at Rozel, and was admitted to the Comtesse. [11]
They even looked in at Father Damon's chapel, the dimly lighted fragrant refuge from the world and from sin. [4]
Leaving the White Horse, I was followed into Piccadilly by the crowd, until I was forced to take refuge in a hackney chaise. [9]
Where could she hope to find a refuge at once? [10]
He lives with his family, and those of the faith to whom he affords refuge, in the long, white house you can just see there among the palm-trees. [10]
The wisest course here was probably to yield, and Hermon was already turning his horse's head toward the house when a Greek messenger dashed past the beckoning refuge and also by him. [10]
The woman whom he loved should need to seek refuge from nothing for which Heinz Schorlin's desire and resolve alike commanded him to make amends. [10]

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