20 Metaphors for refuge

His last refuge is the Low-countries, where rags and lice are no scandal, where he lives a poor gentleman of a company, and dies without a shirt.

This refuge only remained, Sedan; Sedan encumbered with carts, with wagons, with carriages, with hospital huts; a heap of combustible matter.

His refuge now is strong faith in the Saviour.

The Knights of Malta threw themselves into the struggle on the side of the Venetians, feeling bound in honour to do so, as the refuge of Maltese galleys in Venetian harbours was the Turkish pretext for war.

The drawbridge has been raised And now our refuge is a prison too.

* Gobind must not be forgottenold Gobind, who appeared in Preshbend at certain seasons, and sat down in the shade of a camphor-tree, old and gnarled as he; but a sumptuous refuge, as, in truth was Gobind in the spirit.

When Gwendolen was cast down in utter dejection, all of joy and delight the world had afforded her gone, and she felt the greatest need of something to comfort and sustain her in her distrust of self and the world, Deronda said to her, "The refuge you are needing from personal trouble is the higher, the religious life, which holds an enthusiasm for something more than our own appetites and vanities.

The Refuge is an asylum for juvenile delinquents, founded on the just and benevolent principle that offences against society, committed by very young persons, should be disciplined by training and education, rather than by punishment.

" When nothing else will serve, the last refuge is their tears.

Night refuges, I found, are the last stage in this journey.

" The safest refuge for water-fowl in the whole Mälar district is Hjälsta Bay.

So Jay, whose refuge from most ills was talk, went to see a friend.

In a few years the same white population which now flocks around them, will track them to the solitudes of the Arkansas: they will then be exposed to the same evils, without the same remedies; and as the limits of the earth will at last fail them, their only refuge is the grave.

The safest refuge was, of course, the church,thither ran our heroand after himfiercer than the shark, swifter than the houndsfled the black gentleman.

Her only refuge then was the house of her betrothed, and she said: "If you will take me to The Pavilion of the Quick Hedge, you may have a heavy reward.

At a time when his proper refuge was silence, and his prevailing sentimentfor he admits he was somehow to blameshould have been remorse, he foolishly vented his anger and his grief in verses, most of them either peevish or vindictive, and some of which he certainly permitted to be published.

Her refuge in times of extremity is prayer, and it has been in some instances very evidently answered, so that she has severely reproached herself for daring to doubt.

If imprisonment and hunger will not take them down, according to the directions of that Theban Crates, "time must wear it out; if time will not, the last refuge is a halter."

The natural refuge and stronghold of the outlaw was the woods.

Katie's great refuge was activity.

20 Metaphors for  refuge