Sometimes I think the oasis of the medical library should be maintained as a pleasant and essential refuge, mirage though it may be.

Stuyvesant Town has always been a pleasant refuge from the city.

Dr Lecter drove home to this pleasant refuge on the Maryland shore after his morning in the woods.

A pleasant refuge from the busy streets outside, it's worth a visit to just to bask in the atrium's brightness.

DuMont is a warm and pleasant refuge for young daters, old neighborhood hands, even the occasional visitor from afar.

It also provides a pleasant refuge among the shades of a more elegant era, namely the 1830's, when postrevolutionary France was exercising its influence.

IN warm weather, thousands of homeless people move from winter shelters to a more pleasant refuge in the city parks.

And, unlike many of Jackson's accommodations, each is a pleasant refuge during the day rather than a place you want to avoid until bedtime.

It was a pleasant refuge from the autumn storm--that grill.