"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is called chena jungle, and is always the favourite resort of elephants and all wild animals, the impervious character of the bush forming a secure retreat.
- The elephants had retired to this secure retreat, and having winded us they kept up an uninterrupted roaring.
- That man knew of retreats more secure than Rueil, darker and more silent even than the Bastile.
- Buddha escaped the vigilance of his guards, and having found a secure retreat, lived for six years undisturbed in his devout contemplations.
- I'll bet it wasn't for the archaeological or geological prospects, but because it served as a secure retreat.
- For a moment he felt trapped up here; the secure retreat turned prison.
- In 1923, Corbett first discovered the tiger in a steep ravine within a secure retreat.
- Gulko's careful 17 . . . Qd7 prepared the secure retreat 19 . . . Nb7.
- We'd need a secure retreat, somewhere in the mountains here.
- Now I found that a secure retreat was provided for me in my extremity.
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