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Example sentences for "asylum"

Lexicographically close words:
asure; aswel; aswell; aswoon; asya; asylums; asymmetric; asymmetrical; asymmetry; asymptote
  1. The United States offers asylum to the oppressed of all lands.

  2. Leila, as she fell on one knee beside the queen, "most joyfully, most gratefully, will I accept any asylum which proffers solitude and peace.

  3. The asylum people want to keep Mr. Hendrix in their possession so they can get his valuable property, but his friend is trying to prevent this.

  4. So when I saw you arrive in yours I thought you were from the asylum after them, and I tried to get you away from the barn.

  5. They appealed to me for help, and offered me a large sum if I would conceal them, so that they would not be captured by the asylum authorities.

  6. Yet with him," replied Marcian, "are you sure of a safer asylum than with any one else.

  7. Going first to the Asylum of which you were once an inmate, I managed after much diligent inquiry to procure the address of the woman who brought you there when you were about three years old.

  8. Her mother, the matron told her, had died in New York, and she was brought to the Asylum by a woman who would keep her from starvation.

  9. I resolved, yea, took an oath the most solemn, that rather than again be overtaken by a disaster so dire, I would have myself entombed within an asylum for the insane.

  10. It were better, ten thousand times, that every such one should do as I have done--voluntarily go to an asylum and be restrained until he so far recovers that he can of his own will resist temptation.

  11. It is on the record of this asylum that I was brought here June 4th, a victim of intemperance.

  12. The old enemy, who had crawled up the walls of the asylum and slimed himself through my grated windows, and coiled around my heart in frightful dreams, again had me in his possession.

  13. A little boy in the Massachussetts Asylum for Idiots was in declining health, and became, during his dying illness, an object of great interest to the matron and attendants.

  14. There is a small Farm attached to the Asylum and a Sea-side Branch at Clacton-on-Sea, and there is accommodation for 250 patients.

  15. Contributors may individually exercise the right of Voting, or transfer the same to the House Committee of the Asylum or to any Local Committee.

  16. The Asylum is under the personal charge of Mr. and Mrs. J.

  17. In addition to the Asylum proper, the Board has lately purchased a farm-house with 32 acres of land, immediately adjoining the main building.

  18. Those whose friends are unable to pay for their care and maintenance, are elected to the benefits of the Asylum by the votes of the Subscribers, and, subject to the rules and regulations, are admitted for five years.

  19. In these Counties there are upwards of 3,000 cases of Idiocy and Imbecility, and the Asylum at Colchester is the only one in the District.

  20. I confess that it has cost me a great deal of disquiet and anxious thought to find a secure asylum for you.

  21. If we succeed in saving the young king, the latter will find in Vendee a safe asylum with the prince, and will live there securely, surrounded by his faithful subjects.

  22. The exile was denied an asylum in Plymouth, and followed the example of Roger Williams by seeking a refuge among the Indians, who treated him kindly.

  23. The only window the room contained looked north, and, as there were in those days no buildings at all, of any size, in that part of the city, my view extended away across the country to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum on the northern hills.

  24. At the same time he offered asylum to refugees from Valencia, Murcia and other territories in which the Moors had been overcome.

  25. The Govan lunacy board opened in 1896 an asylum near Paisley.

  26. It was to him that Napoleon entrusted the letter of appeal to the prince regent for an asylum in England.

  27. The Magdalen Asylum at Philadelphia consented to receive her, and after much exhortation, she was persuaded to go.

  28. I want thy friends at the Asylum to be able to say, 'She is doing exceedingly well.

  29. When it was all arranged, Friend Hopper went out to the Asylum to carry the news.

  30. I hope thou wilt not think of leaving the Asylum for some time to come.

  31. She afterward became completely deranged, and was removed to the Lunatic Asylum at Bloomingdale.

  32. Through the exertions of herself and other benevolent women, an asylum for these poor outcasts, called THE HOME, was established and sustained.

  33. During the Revolution he found an asylum with Prince Henry of Prussia at Rheinsberg.

  34. At the age of eighteen she entered the asylum for the deaf and dumb at Hartford.

  35. The beauties which surrounded it, and its retired situation, immediately pointed it out as a place designed by Heaven to afford the asylum we wanted.

  36. He immediately joined them, and, under the guidance of Edward, traced the tangled wilds, which had afforded an asylum to his Ellenor.

  37. At large upon the world, without food or raiment, and with the constant calls of nature upon them for both, without a home or any asylum to shelter them from the inclemency of the weather, what is to become of them?

  38. Where an honest industrious man has wasted his strength in labour and endeavours to rear a family, he is well entitled to an asylum to render the evening of his life comfortable.

  39. The miserable condition of many who seek for an Asylum in the Metropolis.

  40. The Spaniards urged that they could not tolerate that an asylum should be offered, to all who chose to desert from the plantations.

  41. Behold it as the asylum where the wretched and the oppressed find a refuge and support!

  42. Of course, we fled to America--to these United States; for where else do the weary find repose and the oppressed an asylum and a home?

  43. Having no relatives, he directed the executors of his will to apply his handsome fortune to the establishment of an asylum for orphans, which still remains a monument of his sterling goodness and public spirit.

  44. He was an inmate of the Asylum but allowed to go at large.

  45. Nothing had been heard of Odette Rider, and the only news of importance was that the ex-convict, Sam Stay, had escaped from the county lunatic asylum to which he had been removed.

  46. He was taken to the County Asylum this morning.

  47. Well, old Kari told me that she was in service at the orphan asylum some years ago, and at that time it was still more dreary and lonely in that part of the town than it is now.

  48. That asylum is a dark and dismal place, I can tell you.

  49. We have opened our ship-decks to foreign sailors—more proud in our boast of being an asylum for the distressed than in preventing distress among our own people.

  50. The Government opened up a school for the grown-up children, and the American Consul of Trebizond instituted an asylum for the infants.

  51. The infants in the care of the American Consul at Trebizond were taken away on the pretext that they were going to be sent to Sivas, where an asylum had been prepared for them.

  52. I wonder if any one realizes because I was brought up in an orphan asylum and then lived with other people that I have never had a home of my own in my life.

  53. I shall never forget that I was a girl being raised in an orphan asylum and that your mother took me to her home and did what she could to give me my first start in learning to sing, if that is what you mean, Dr.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asylum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    asylum; bedlam; bughouse; cache; clinic; concealment; corner; cover; covert; cranny; cubbyhole; den; dugout; foxhole; harbor; haven; hideout; hiding; hole; home; hospital; infirmary; institution; lair; niche; nook; port; preserve; recess; refuge; retreat; sanatorium; sanctuary; security; shelter; sickroom; stash; stronghold; ward; workhouse