Act of turning to for assistance

Usage examples of refuge.

For seventy years, defectors, malcontents, pirates, and pacifists had accreted around the refuge of our alien Queen.

Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.

His brief spell in the arcology refuge had shown him how little use theoretical medicine was in the face of real injuries.

Gothic standard became the refuge of forty thousand Barbarian slaves, who had broke their chains, and aspired, under the command of their great deliverer, to revenge the injuries and the disgrace of their cruel servitude.

He drank and thanked the Maker for the refuge, then spread his blanket and drew his bearskin over him and settled to sleep.

Their last place of refuge in Staffordshire was at the house of Colonel Lane, of Bently, an earnest royalist.

Jair would tell him what had befallen, persuade him to send patrols south in search of his parents so that they could be warned of the danger that waited in the Vale, and then all of them would take refuge in the city until Allanon returned with Brin and Rone.

For this refuge he was making, and from this our mutinous Houyhnhnms meant to keep us.

Kourikos, logothete of the treasury, that you have taking refuge within your walls his wife and daughter.

AT the mouth of the pit, The Shadow encountered a rising mestizo who had picked that very refuge after the original fray.

Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.

Up on the roof, amid the strapped-down merchandise for village stores upriver, the matching sets of lawn furniture, barbecue grills, inflatable toys, the bags of plastic sandals, sun hats, boxes of canned cocoa, laundry powder, and Duracell batteries, Drake had found smoking refuge in a used obstetrical chair destined for a needy highland clinic.

The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.

Teneriffe was strongly fortified, as it was a harbour of refuge between Spain and her oversea possessions, both East and West.

Order was the refuge of those to whom it was not given to conform to the fruitful relations between men and women overseen by the great Four, but to seek their own sex.