He fantasized about running away, perhaps to Xi, the quiet, pastoral refuge hidden in a vast desert of color.

The intimate room, paneled in the same mahogany as the tall doors, seemed a quiet refuge from the sometimes noisy palace.

But for nature lovers seeking a quiet refuge, this 29-mile-long island is the perfect spot.

Today, the stone-paved plaza was a quiet refuge above the maze of Jerusalem's Old City.

You're a writer who needs a quiet refuge for a few weeks, and in turn, you'll sort out her library.

The public library is a "quiet refuge" to which Maya retreats when she experiences crisis.

It's now a quiet residential refuge popular with artists - and tourists seeking to escape the mobs.

My bedroom was a quiet refuge in an apparently uninhabited wing of the building.

It is simply an intolerable insult to have pleasure helicopters ruin the last quiet refuges in this noise-filled city.

The area now offers a quiet and often less expensive refuge for dining before or after the theater.