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Example sentences for "take refuge"

  • But closely pursued, he was advised once more to take refuge in England, where, with Pichegru and the Count of Artois, he prepared another plot against the First Consul, who was now to be arrested and carried away.

  • When, war compelled them to take refuge in the town the majority of them gave themselves up to all kinds of scandals, going alone and in secret to the men they desired to visit.

  • Being unable to reach Cochin on account of the winds, they were forced to take refuge in the island of Anchediva.

  • In the mean time, Francisco de Albuquerque and Duarte Pacheco defeated the reinforcements from Calicut, and forced them to take refuge on board their paraws, leaving many of their men slain and wounded on the shore.

  • He had encountered severe weather on the coast, and was forced after much trouble and danger to take refuge in Anchediva.

  • Amidst these solitudes there were many valleys in whose peaceful bosoms the weary of other lands seemed to be invited to take refuge.

  • The republicans and dissenters, disappointed and persecuted, were disposed in ever increasing numbers, to take refuge in the New World.

  • At length Blake, discomfited, was compelled to take refuge in the Thames.

  • He was driven by a sort of implicit impulse, for the sake of avoiding one ungenerous action, to take refuge in another, the basest and most diabolical.

  • Not for one hour could I withdraw myself from this complexity of horrors, or take refuge in the calmness of meditation.

  • Having done this, he seemed immediately to recollect himself, and to take refuge in the usual distance and solemnity of his manner.

  • He succeeded in surprising and defeating the Danes in that district of Lincolnshire known as Lindsey, and drove Cnut to take refuge in his ships, and eventually to sail away to Denmark.

  • A riot ensued in which the citizens took the part of the duke, and the bishop had to take refuge in Southwark.

  • Serko had been obliged to take refuge in the carriage.

  • But driven back, little by little, from the mercantile portion of the place, they were compelled to take refuge in the upper town.

  • To take refuge there is to run the risk of being caught, if they are in search of me; but I have no choice.

  • At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed off his hand with an axe.

  • Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.

  • He had trusty fellows, accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no doubt, take refuge.

  • Cosette, less happy than the most insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing.

  • The town was crowded with fugitives who, having distinguished themselves by the violence of their opinions and the severity of their measures, before the insurrection broke out, were forced to take refuge in the cities.

  • The keenest wit has to remain silent and to take refuge in kisses.

  • His wife had a nobler soul than he, as she wanted to sell all they had, and to take refuge in Holland rather than submit to the shame of a recantation.

  • If you decide in the affirmative you must find a convent for me to take refuge in before I commit myself to anything, as otherwise I should be exposed to the harsh treatment I wish to avoid.

  • He advised the king to depart in secret and to take refuge in a frontier fortress among faithful regiments, within reach of Austrian supports.

  • Mounier had obtained his unqualified assent to the Rights of Man, and urged him to seize the moment to take refuge in some faithful province.

  • At this critical point a secret Council was held, at which the royalists advised the king to take refuge in the provinces.

  • On the restoration of the Medici in 1530 he had again to take refuge in France, where he composed the greater part of his works.

  • Driven by a famine to take refuge in Egypt (cf.

  • He was obliged in consequence to take refuge in Venice, and, on the accession of Clement, to flee to France.

  • President Kruger, who was the guest of the District Governor, wrote to General Coetser at Komatipoort, asking him not to destroy the bridge and advising him to take refuge in Portuguese territory.

  • Well was it for our straggling train that Delarey came dashing down on Clements in the night, slaying and capturing right and left, till the British general was glad to take refuge in entrenched Pretoria!

  • As soon as it was evident that we were friends, however, two strapping sons made their appearance from a kopje behind the house, where the clatter of our horses' hoofs had caused them to take refuge.

  • He was the son of a clergyman, John Holland, who had been obliged to take refuge in Germany and Denmark with Miles Coverdale during the Marian persecution.

  • The summons met with little response; the enemy advanced in irresistible force, and Hofer, a price once more set on his head, had to take refuge in the mountains.

  • And so I, after the manner of my kind, was driven to take refuge in a dream.

  • So I take refuge in quoting your own words of this morning against you--that no explanation is lucid if the hearer refuses to accept it.

  • He therefore resolved to take refuge in another room, but Caecilie in her good-tempered malice addressed one question after another to him, so that he, without being rude, could not break off the conversation very quickly.

  • The tempest became so violent that Blanden was obliged to take refuge in the dead-house, where he found several participators in the funeral who had also fled thither; amongst them a Gerichtsrath whom he knew.

  • He deemed it safest to take refuge by the castle lake; he entered a boat that lay by the water's edge, and gave himself up to the guidance of the waves.

  • This functionary contrived to dispense bribes so judiciously among the inferior Albanian chieftains, that they deserted en masse to the Turks, and thus rendered it imperative on Mustapha to take refuge in his fortress at Scutari.

  • He, and the six commissioners who had been sent with him from Constantinople, were driven out, and compelled to take refuge in Servia, whence they returned to Constantinople.

  • The judicious disposal of his troops, which he has effected, have driven Luca Vukalovitch and his band of hornets to take refuge in Suttorina, adjacent to the Austrian territory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    due course; fine yellow; take back; take care; take charge; take cold; take courage; take great; take hede; take heede; take him; take keer; take long; take observations; take offence; take over; take pictures; take position; take shelter; take time; take wing; taken alive; taken from; taken into; takes away; takes possession