A Buffalo lady sent word to the Belgian Relief Committee that she would take one of a number of refugees recently arrived from France.
After the first riots in Constantinople, the various Armenian churches were filled with refugees who could hardly be persuaded to leave their sanctuary.
Thousands of refugees were, however, kept alive by the generosity of the tender hearted in America as the chapter on Relief Work will graphically portray.
The Turkish officers, seeing that in order to reach the refugees they must withdraw the Americans whom they feared to kill, attempted to induce the missionaries to come out from the building "that they might be the better protected.
In many instances the money was given out in the form of bread and clothing to the starving refugees in Asia, within forty-eight hours of the time of cabling it from New York.
The five European Consuls who went to Zeitoun to negotiate for the submission of the Armenian insurgents telegraphed to their respective embassies that indescribable distress prevailed among the eight thousand refugees at that place.
Cold, famine, smallpox and typhoid fever had carried off four thousand people and twelve thousand refugees were in need of food, clothing and bedding.
About ten thousand refugees are estimated to have passed through the district of Khoi.
After repeated assurances of protection by the dragomans of the six European embassies, the refugees returned to their homes.
In the village of Kulleth, three hundred refugees from the Diarbekir plain were begging food and clothing.
Although the inhabitants of Zeitoun gave up their arms, the refugees shrank from quitting the town through lack of confidence in the Turks.
Miss Kimball is, therefore, distributing these articles of clothing free to the wretched village refugees who are flocking to Van in rags and nakedness.
The Boer refugees and the British are catered for by the same man at Port Elizabeth.
We have pushed our humanity in this matter of the refugeesso far that we have looked after our enemies far better than our friends.
I recognise that the two cases are not on all fours, since the Boers are compelled to be in camps and the loyalist refugees are not.
We are happy to state that the spirit of loyalty is daily increasing in this camp, and that the majority of the male refugees have taken the oath of allegiance.
The problem was complicated by the fact that many of the refugees were averse from leaving their own country, and had come in upon a promise that they would not be asked to do so.
Such camps as refuges were no new things, for the British refugees from Johannesburg have been living for over a year in precisely such places.
Fifteen hundred of them will soon be at work, and the refugees are returning at the rate of 400 a week.
They say that when an emeute occurs the refugees from all countries always play a leading part.
They also considered the affairs of France and Italy, and the constant activities of Italian societies and refugees in French territory, which were then causing serious anxiety about the tranquillity of the Peninsula.
Our mission in Lincoln County was to hunt down the guerrillas who infested it, and to care for the refugees from Chattanooga and other places in the rear of the army, who had lost their means of gaining a livelihood.
We supported the refugees by forced levies of corn and bacon from the wealthy planters of the vicinity, while our mounted force soon disposed of the guerrillas, capturing a number and frightening the rest out of the county.
London, who died in 624, and that the refugees to England brought back his relics.
Ploudalmezeau is in the old Pays d'Ach, and the British refugees swarmed hither, landing in the estuaries of the Aber Vrach, Aber Benoit, and the Aber Iltut.
It was growing much colder, and the big chunk of ice that served the refugees as a raft was moving quite rapidly over a choppy sea.
The refugees looked up, expecting to see some armed force coming to their aid.
The refugees hastened on, and soon were at the place where the craft had settled on a bank of ice and snow.
Here many refugees from all parts of the Union fled to escape punishment or justice; for although there was law, yet it could not be executed, and it was a desperate state of society.
In the mixed multitude of refugees from the Palatinate and other ravaged provinces were many belonging both to the Lutheran and to the Reformed churches, as well as some Catholics.
The first manifestation of church life seems to have been in the meetings on the banks of the Cooper and the Santee, in which the French refugees worshiped their fathers' God with the psalms of Marot and Beza.
The same letter gives the names of the three eminent French pastors ministering to the communities of Huguenot refugees at New Rochelle and New York and elsewhere in the neighborhood.
The professors of William and Mary College, when they began with experiments on plants and minerals, were assisted by the French refugees at Manakintown.
For a time these refugees prospered and remained apparently content with their new place of abode; and others, induced by their example, likewise removed thither.
The bulk of the Virginia planters undoubtedly retained their habitual attachment to monarchy and to the Established Church; and some royalist refugees had been driven hither by the civil war.
The refugees received from the king and the assembly large donations of money and provisions; and they found in Colonel William Byrd, of Westover, a generous benefactor.
Much of the land thus "re- distributed" was owned by Turkish absentees, now refugees themselves.
In a region known for its indefinite historical memory and lack of statute of limitations, they recalled how the Italians treated Montenegrin refugees in 1923 (returning them to Yugoslavia in cattle cars).
These political Lego games led to enormous population shifts - the politically correct term for refugees brutally deprived of their land and livelihood.
Every day some ten thousand refugees were sent east by way of Smolensk, Orel, and Tula.
Supplies had always been a hard problem in that poverty-stricken little land and when the Serbian refugees began flocking in, it became an insoluble problem, unless with help from outside, which was not always forthcoming.
Depots of provisions were also established along all the roads by which the refugees were straggling in toward the coast.
The fate of all these hundreds of thousands of refugees by the time winter will have arrived will be horrible.
Sir Gilbert visited frontier towns and the camps of the refugees for the purpose of making a personal investigation into the conditions.
None begs, none asks for money, and yet on the faces of these frontier refugees I saw stark hunger, the weakness come of long weeks of famine.
Shamefacedly, as if fearful of disclosing the depth of their emotion to their comrades, the men would beg the refugees to be allowed to carry their parcels for them.
Refugees from the liberated villages towards Cambrai were being sent back for safety to Arras, where they were housed in the Schramm Barracks till the French Mission was able to arrange to settle them in other parts of France.
I could leave here to-morrow, but want to clear my columns of the vast crowd of refugees and negroes that encumber us.
In the mean time, I had dispatched by land to Wilmington a train of refugees who had followed the army all the way from Columbia, South Carolina, under an escort of two hundred men, commanded by Major John A.
But their happiness, that of a winning action, exalted and passionate, had not the depths of that of the refugeeswho had fled before the German hosts and were returning to their homes in the wake of their victorious army.
I saw a motor-car with a wounded man stop at a crowded corner, in the midst of refugees and soldiers; a doctor was leaning over him, and he died whilst the car waited.
Its fishermen crept out in the mornings from the shelter of its quays, where refugees gathered in crowds hoping to get away by steamer.
Four or five peasant women refugees by the roadside loosened their tongues in piercing feminine satire and upbraiding.
In Ostend I had seen the Belgian refugees in flight, and I had seen them pouring into London stations, bedraggled outcasts of every class, with the staring uncertainty of the helpless human flock flying from the storm.
Looking at the refugees in the camp at Bergen-op-Zoom, an observer might share some of the contempt of the Germans for the Belgians.
They had nothing for the refugeesin London, but they found that the people who had stayed at home in Belgium were worthy of help.
From the cafés where the British journalists gathered England received its news, which they gleaned from refugees and stragglers and passing officers.
Some historians declare that the Boer borrowed from the French refugeesmuch religious sentiment.
We’re having a beastly time as compared with the Belgian refugees and the German prisoners in England.
It was to these settlements or posts, or their neighborhoods, that these refugees from the Revolutionary war in the colonies had retired.
The influx of refugees increased the cost of living.
See also the letter of the Dutch Consul in Antwerp urging the refugees to come back to their homes.
The other refugees repaid Mr Cayenne his money with thankfulness, and, on their restoration to their homes, could not sufficiently express their sense of his kindness.
Before the grave assemblage of the Confederation of the Diet at Baden, Count Michel magnificently declared that as for him he would protect the refugees at all costs, and left the matter to the justice of the delegates.
The people of Massachusetts loved not Catholics and Frenchmen; nevertheless, in some instances they received the refugees with especial kindness.
Some refugees might have done so, but they had not.
The Acadians taken to New York were evidently as poor as their fellow-refugees at Philadelphia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refugees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
