21 Words to use with refugees

Sometimes a crowd of a thousand or two drew one toward the Central Station where bedraggled refugee families, just arrived from Liege, Termonde, Aerschot, and Malines, stood on street corner or wagon top and thrilled the crowd with tales of atrocities and the story of their flight from their burning homes to the south.

Greece today, the aftermath of the refugee impact.

Odletown, near our line, on the western side of Lake Champlain, has been a station for a body of Canadian militia for two years, to guard the neighborhood from refugee incendiaries from our side.

The refugee ship.

To oblige them to give up refugee criminals under the same penalty.

Dr. Ibrahim Zabaji, a Syrian refugee doctor, undertakes the medical charge.

I suppose that they are in some refugee home, to remain there till the war is over.

It was a refugee lottery.

Of his three sisters two died young, the other married twice, her first husband being a French refugee minister who became a Prebendary of Westminster.

The younger had the stricken one hurried off toward the railway and a refugee mother in the hills, Constance tenderly protesting until the surgeon murmured the truth: "It'll be all one to him by to-morrow.

The refugee packet arrived without the nature of contents on the address tag.

Yet we went on, mixed up always in refugee rushes, in masses of troops moving forward to the front or backwards in retreat, getting brief glimpses of the real happenings behind the screen of secrecy, meeting the men who could tell us the hidden truth, and more than once escaping, by the nick of time only, from a death-trap into which we had tumbled unwittingly, not knowing the whereabouts of the enemy, nor his way of advance.

In a refugee shed, sleeping on the straw, we found an old woman of 88.

The newspaper men said that "refugee stuff" was already stale; eviction and misery were stale.

He had been joined by refugee tories from the Watauga, who could have piloted him thither; and perhaps he intended to make his threats good.

It had been the intention of the War Office to pack us under guard with the herds on one of those Government refugee trains.

The French Ambassador requested the Government to make at once more stringent laws against refugee aliens, and in answer to this request Palmerston brought in a Conspiracy to Murder Bill.

On our left, going the opposite way, was another line, also unending, made up of refugee villagers, returning afoot to the towns beyond Louvain from which they had fled four days earlier.

I was standing by the roadside holding in my arms a refugee baby.

They were like a refugee camp after a disaster, impermanent, uncomfortable, barely holding on to the swampy earth.

Presently, her peasantry growing ever more restive, passed from protest to revolt against the Circassian refugee-colonists with whom the Porte was flooding the land.

21 Words to use with  refugees