Lord Penryn's house rose in a spacious square of ground behind a hawthorn hedge, shrouded in trees, and, while not easily accessible from the street, clearly afforded refuge to anyone who succeeded in penetrating the hedge.

"There is a ribbon of green space that runs through urban and suburban areas that is actually affording refuge to species that might not otherwise be there," Mr. Main said.

"The malghaste have for too long existed on our border, affording refuge to those who escape from us."

Some administrative cabins constructed in the early 1920s afford refuge for trail crews and wilderness rangers.

He also joined societies for the suppression of climbing chimney-sweepers, for diffusing knowledge about capital punishments, for affording refuge to the destitute, and for repressing cruelty to animals, being conscientiously opposed to field sports.

Some small distance up the valley Aillas noticed a dilapidated hut which might even now afford refuge to herders and wanderers of the hills.

Granted that Castenago has afforded refuge to assassins, why need he ever admit it?

The steep coastal topography afforded refuge to religious minorities, including Druze and Christians, whose persecutors were reluctant to follow them into the mountains.

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden (1682-1718) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia (1672-1725) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.