1 He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
2 Then, she knew that somewhere in the opaque gloom about her there was shelter, help, a haven of refuge and warmth.
3 They'd tramped through my world with slimy feet and there was no place left where I could take refuge when things became too bad to stand.
4 It was rumored to be the refuge of negro and white criminals and was the first place the Yankee soldiers searched when they wanted a man.
5 A bawdy house is a haben of refuge affer dis house of hell.
6 No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge.
7 She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.
8 Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
9 The fact is, I lost them in the crowd soon after dinner, and took refuge here, for my sins.
10 She pictured the poor creature shivering behind her fallen defences and awaiting with suspense the moment when she could take refuge in the first shelter that offered.
11 It was as though a great blaze of electric light had been turned on in her head, and her poor little anguished self shrank and cowered in it, without knowing where to take refuge.
12 She had often glanced at the store-building which had been turned into a refuge in which farmwives could wait while their husbands transacted business.
13 She found a refuge in the Jolly Seventeen.
14 For a time the gossip of Juanita Haydock and the Jolly Seventeen had been a refuge from the droning of Aunt Bessie, but the relief had not continued.
15 The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance.