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Meanings of port of refuge in English

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Usage of port of refuge in English
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You have but to sail southward and find a port of refuge.
Round the World
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And soon by his offices the two were passed into the port of refuge.
Fraternity
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He purposed, therefore, to skirt the Antilles, keeping continually in reach of a port of refuge.
Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British N...
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The Little Roadstead, being thenceforward protected, will become an excellent port of refuge in bad weather.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
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An old policeman, too, like some grey lighthouse, marked the entrance to the port of refuge.
Fraternity
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Again I tried to persuade them to be towed into the port of refuge so near at hand.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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I gazed across the mouth of the Chechessee, and the sound at the entrance of the port of refuge.
Voyage of the Paper Canoe / A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles...
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Knowing he was in no condition to outrun them, he'd taken the first port of refuge: the security guard's van.
Exit strategy
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Fixed income investors fare even worse, perhaps because the bond market is a port of refuge during periods of market volatility.
Reuters
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For many, the stage was the port of refuge to which they fled from the lonely habitations of erudition, where they-
Shakspere and Montaigne / An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency o...
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The little pilot town of Lewes, near Cape Delaware, and behind the Breakwater, is a port of refuge for storm-bound vessels.
Voyage of the Paper Canoe / A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles...
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New Orleans was a port of refuge for a great many of the French who fled the island during the slave uprising.
Ralestone Luck
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This port of refuge is much frequented by coasters, as many as two or three hundred sails collecting here during a severe gale.
Voyage of the Paper Canoe / A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles...
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Ship and cargo may be in peril, and it may be necessary for the safety of both to put into a port of refuge.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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He was afraid of that terrible westerly current which had cheated him out of so many ports of refuge.
South Sea Tales
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"The neglect of this little inland sea as a port of refuge," says M. Elisée Reclus, "is an economic scandal.
In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc