They were thus compelled to fly for their lives, and sought refuge in the cave on West Rock, which afterwards bore their name.
Lincoln Park, lying upon the lake to the northward, contains 310 acres, and served, during the great fire, as a place of refugefor thousands of people driven thither by the raging element.
Many took refuge in the river or the lake; but the hissing flames stooped down and licked the water, and the poor victims were made to feel the tortures of a double death.
The valley seemed barren and uninviting; yet in it, as offering a refuge from the persecutions which they had suffered in the east, the Mormons decided to establish their church and build their homes.
It was to escape the "dear weariness" of incessant friendly visitors, which they were now less than ever able to bear, that they had taken refuge in the Enfield lodging.
Hetty Lamb found a refuge and a welcome in the old humble home again.
England has such harbors of refuge for her surplus nobility everywhere, and the cost of supporting these locusts is a crushing tax upon the labor of the country.
He hastily quitted his castle and sought refuge in the castle on the island, thinking that the steep rocks and swift water would prevent the rats from finding him there.
In this contest the Firbolgs were overthrown with great slaughter, and the remnants of the race according to Keating and other writers took refuge in Arran, Islay, Rathlin and the Hebrides, where they dwelt until driven out by Picts.
A few years later Diarmait seized by force the chief of Hy Maine, who had slain his herald and had taken refuge with St Ruadan of Lothra.
The fugitives had a refuge in the Rue de l'Union with an old Chouan named Vergne, who had been in orders before the Revolution, but had become a doctor since the pacification.
As for herself, she had foundrefuge with a reliable person; the Abbé Moraud, vicar of Guibray, would take charge of her correspondence.
Of the proposal which had been made her to take refuge at Tournebut, not a word.
Being released on the King's return she immediately took refuge in a convent where she spent the rest of her life.
He scoffs at his hiding-places in the roofs of the old château, and it is precisely in the roofs of the old château that the police found the famous refuge which could hold forty men with ease.
Polly already belonged to him; she was his, made his own by a distinct and plighted troth; he could no more put her away from him than he would have turned away the half-frozen robin that sought refuge from the inclement storm.
A strong restful nature like Mildred's was the natural refuge of a timid despondent one such as Olive's.
It is gratifying to learn that still more reforms are advocated, and that there are to be more schools established, similar to the one originated by Ramabai, not far from Bombay, as a refuge for child widows.
Here at last, so we thought, was a haven ofrefuge from jewelry intruders, but, alas!
My friends, it was once said--That man's instinct was in all unknown matters to take refuge in God.
When we are awed, and all but terrified, by the unfathomable mystery of life, we can at least take refuge in God.
She would sometimes seek refuge from her burning shame and from her tortured soul in fierce revolt.
But suddenly he felt something beside him in the bed and awaking started up in alarm and cried, "I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the stoned!
Because," replied the Wazir, "this will one day be the place of Refuge of the Prophet Mohammed, who will be sent at the end of time.
With Allah take I refuge from whatever driveth me, iv.
The Indians, not knowing how great might be the force that would assail the town, at once took refuge in the neighboring woods, while the Creoles retired to their own houses.
It is not apparent, indeed, that they made any resistance, and the king and his family at eight o'clock lost heart and deserted the Tuileries, to takerefuge with the National Convention.
Italy was no longer safe for him: he fled across the Alps, and took refuge in Belgium.
Soon the flickering of the flames, and the rolling columns of smoke which issued from the burning hall, announced to those who had taken refuge in the adjacent temple the nature of the awful catastrophe.
I have often sent there poor unfortunates that needed a refuge of that nature.
No, indeed; for God was "my refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Sam Johnson, the great lexicographer, declared it to be "the lastrefuge of a consummate scoundrel.
The Emperor ordered them to hold on their course, as, at the worst, he had the chance either of capturing the French cruiser, or of taking refuge in the island of Corsica, where he was assured of being well received.
The King, who at first took refuge at Lille, had in fact just retired to Ghent.
Part of the imperials were made prisoners by the royalists; others took refuge in the mountains, or went to carry the news of their defeat to Grenoble or Valence.
Austin has taken refugeat the English ambassador's.
I want the body of a man who has taken refuge here after committing homicide," replied the officer.
In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.
I've reason to believe a thief's been in my rooms, and taken refuge here," I explained.
Buzurg Khan, who had been present at this battle, was among the first to seek refuge in flight; and when he received intelligence of the final success his satisfaction was almost eclipsed by his personal chagrin and mortification.
The town was occupied without difficulty, but an attempt to storm the citadel in which the Khitay had taken refuge was repulsed with loss.
These were the unsuccessful conspirators against Khudayar Khan, who, after the death of Alim Kuli, had obtained his power once more; and these having been driven out of Khokand by his armies, were compelled to seek refuge in Kashgar.
This conspiracy was unsuccessful, and Yakoob Beg, who had yielded up Khodjent, with the defence of which he had been entrusted by Alim Kuli, on the approach of the forces of Khudayar Khan, took refuge in Bokhara.
The Mantchoos are said to have been the descendants of the Mongol conquerors of the thirteenth century, who had been forced to take refuge in the wilds north of China when the native Chinese rose up and destroyed their power.
The Khitay troops, unarmed, were surprised during the night, and cut down without quarter, and the small body of survivors sought refuge in the Yangyshahr fort.
Buzurg Khan, who had taken refuge in the Yangy-Shahr, was seized in his palace there, after a very slight resistance.
The family of Yakoob Beg's father seems originally to have come from Karategin, on the borders of Badakshan, but in the time of the Usbeg conquest of that district the father of Mahomed Latif, then an infant, took refuge in Khokand.
As might have been expected, the Russians were victorious, and Yakoob Beg was compelled to seek refuge with his shattered forces within the walls of Tashkent.
The Kirghiz power after this reverse was broken up, and Sadic Beg took refuge with Alim Kuli at Tashkent.
The room was a refuge and did not pretend to be an achievement, and in that very fact might, to an eye as sharp as his for such significance, suggest the tastes that it relinquished.
He had taken refuge from Ronnie in hatred of those whom, in the poem, he called his murderers, and his voice was weighted with its fierce indictment.
She had at last the sensation of flying, battered and breathless, from his platitudes, and found, soon, her onlyrefuge in duplicity.
Two centuries ago multitudes of the people of this country found a refuge on the North American Continent, escaping from the tyranny of the Stuarts, and from the bigotry of Laud.
Audrey instantly turned into the roadway, treating the creosoted wood as though it had been rose-strewn velvet, and reached a refuge where a policeman was standing.
She felt as though she were in a refugefrom the world, and as though her conscience was being narcotised.
