单词 | refuge hut |
释义 | > as lemmasrefuge hut C1. General use as a modifier, as in refuge house, refuge hut, refuge place, refuge tower, etc. ΚΠ 1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Evi Bicause God wolde haue a refuge place, and sanctuarie for his. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxi. 7 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 86 Lord,..Be my rock, my refuge tower. 1696 tr. G. Croese Gen. Hist. Quakers sig. A3v I found my self under a necessity of seeking out for some Patronage and Refuge-place. 1774 J. Fry Select Poems 33 And keep thee safe as in a refuge Tower. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xviii. 187 This little refuge-hut..was the means of saving the lives of these four men. 1869 J. Ker Serm. (1874) 339 To make the death of Christ a mere refuge-house for pardons. 1895 C. Dixon Migrat. Brit. Birds ii. 27 Three fairly well defined range bases or refuge areas. 1911 E. J. Clapp Port of Hamburg iii. 69 From the castle of Ritzebüttel, piracy was now..suppressed... A small refuge harbor was built and pilots were here taken aboard. 1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 89 The creeks on the chosen trail would eventually be bridged..and refuge cabins would be built at suitable intervals. 2001 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 66 699/1 Feminists turned to organising consciousness-raising groups and establishing cafes, bookstores, and refuge houses for battered women. < as lemmas |
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