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There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASYLUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
asylum
 n.  place of refuge or shelter; protection
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  You return home for to-night to your asylum, and see that all be well.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  She knew, of course, that the place was a lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a shudder when we entered.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenchi.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  His request was that I would at once release him from the asylum and send him home.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  As we passed across the lawn on our way to the station to catch our train we could see the front of the asylum.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
9  After he had had every other kind of misfortune, his wife, 'Crazy Mary,' tried to set a neighbour's barn on fire, and was sent to the asylum at Lincoln.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
10  Political troubles in France, at last, led the family again to seek an asylum in this country.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  At most, they would take him to the lunatic asylum as "the King of Spain" if he should go very mad.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
12  from the superintendent of the lunatic asylum.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
13  Only at the end of it, in front of the almshouse and the lunatic asylum, could be seen some people in white and others like them walking singly across the field shouting and gesticulating.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
14  I had not for a moment the idea of keeping it, but I knew that at Paris there was an asylum where they receive such creatures.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
15  To make a lunatic asylum of it, similar to that founded by the Count of Pisani at Palermo.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 69. The Inquiry.
Example Sentence:
1  Many asylum seekers appear to be economic migrants, convinced that the streets of Europe are paved with gold.
2  Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.
3  Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum.
4  Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
5  Nine Albanians have crossed the border into Greece and asked for political asylum.
6  The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
7  There was a nationwide debate on whether the asylum laws should be changed.
8  The refugees sought asylum from religious persecution in a new land.
9  Then, you know, they clapped them away in a lunatic asylum.
10  Wang is seeking asylum in Australia after he has offered a trove of confidential information, such as his organization having infiltrated into some universities.
11  Thursday's diplomatic maelstrom started when Russia granted Mr. Snowden so-called temporary asylum, which lasts for one year but is renewable.