sanctuary

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Founders of plant shop Root 13, Dave and Katy Williams would agree - they have created a calm sanctuary so customers can escape from city living into nature.

From BBC

And Harry Brook's men now leave Sri Lanka - a country that has provided a sanctuary for over the past weeks and returned six T20 wins from six - for India and the semi-finals.

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"The Church must be a sanctuary for the displaced, not a platform for their expulsion."

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They added that "it would make sense if he was thinking of a potential sanctuary where he could still live like a king".

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Elisha called this private upper floor “a sort of sanctuary; a retreat to which we are driven by mischief-making eyes and tongues. There, like wounded deer we escape the hunters.”

From Literature