Leaving the poniard then, I made off, and fearing I might be recognised, took refuge in the palace of Duke Alessandro, which was between Piazza Navona and the Rotunda.
He took refugeon the instant in the mint; while I stationed myself inside my housedoor, which I left ajar, setting a boy at watch upon the street to warn me when the pig should leave the mint.
Making off, I took refuge in the house of Messer Giovanni Gaddi, clerk of the Camera, with the intention of preparing as soon as possible to escape from Rome.
He took refuge in London, where he taught Hebrew and cast nativities, for about a year.
Driven out again by the French the Junta took refuge in Cádiz, where, in January, 1810, it appointed a Regency of five men to arrange for the calling of a Cortes representative of Spain and the Americas.
He took refuge successively in Egypt and northwestern Africa, and in 755 came to Spain with the object of establishing himself there.
Pedro I was utterly defeated at Montiel, and was besieged in a castle where he took refuge.
Released upon promising not to take the kingly title until after his father's death, the prince, again unsuccessful in an appeal to arms, took refuge in Italy with Alphonso V.
Lorenzo, with the friends he had about him, took refugein the sacristy of the church.
The Guelphs being expelled, took refuge in the Upper Val d'Arno, where part of their castles and strongholds were situated, and where they strengthened and fortified themselves against the attacks of their enemies.
Battista, unable to effect his escape, or his enemies his capture, took refuge in a vault of his house, used for storing grain.
And Shelton, who could not tell the reason why, took refuge in the smoke of his cigar.
She met no one before she reached her room; and there, to be safe, took refuge in her bed.
If you pressed him for an opinion, he took refuge in raillery, or threw out some grave paradox with which it was not easy to cope.
He took refugein indefinite expressions, and observed, 'The Responsibility of Ministers is surely a constitutional doctrine.
We hoped to reach Moulins the same day but the weather became so frightful that we took refuge in a horrible little inn where the smoke was blinding.
On his defeat he took refuge in France, and reappeared in Vienna in 1848, at the time of the insurrection, when he joined the Hungarians, who had revolted against Austria.
At the time of the violent reaction which proceeded after 1849 in several European States, following the suppression of the revolutionary movement, thousands of proscribed Germans, Italians, and French, took refuge in Swiss territory.
The remnant of the Persian fleet anchored off the coast near Phalerum, the port of Athens, ortook refuge in the small harbour.
The battered "Tsarevitch," with three destroyers, took refuge at Kiao-chau.
After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bes, who had infested the gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in the mountains.
I took refuge in Franche-Comte at first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands.
He took refuge in the temple of Athena Chalciœcus, on learning that a confidential slave had betrayed him.
In his extremity he took refuge in a temple of Poseidon at Calauria, which had been an inviolable asylum from time immemorial.
His followers, who were left in the citadel, took refuge in the temple of Athena, but they were induced to quit the sanctuary by a promise that their lives would be spared.
Knocking down two, he took refuge in the house of a German, when a young woman told him to jump between two mattresses.
Traitors delivered up the outworks; but Alberic and his wife, two daughters and six sons, took refuge on the top of a tower.
In 1225 the Lombard League procured the release of Count Richard, who returned to Verona; but he was expelled, when he took refuge in Mantua.
Then leaving his hiding-place Mar seized Stirling Castle, whereupon James marched against him, and he took refuge in England.
It is said that he took refuge in his native city, Bologna; but he never again emerges from obscurity, and all we know with certainty is that in 1534 he was dead.
Having been joined by his son, he took refuge in the island of Cercina.
Aiglemont, in dismay, took refuge in this transparent dissimulation, ready to her hand, the first resource of an artless unhappiness.
Powerless as he felt himself to find words of his own, simple enough and lofty enough to scale the heights of this exaltation, he took refuge in platitudes as to the destiny of women.
He realized that if God had left him on earth, he was bound to live on and suffer on earth; but he took refuge in the sanctuary.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "took refuge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
