Lastly, imagine this coward saved, dwelling within a few miles of the son whom he had deserted, and yet utterly unable to rescue or even to communicate with him because of the poltroonery of those among whom he had refuged."
"Queen Sheba's Ring"
H. Rider Haggard
The league-long, paved, lighted, garden-plotted, seated and refuged Marina renounced its more or less celebrated attractions to break off short here; and an inward curve of the kindly westward shore almost made a wide-armed bay, with all the ugliness between town and country, and the further casual fringe of the coast, turning, as the day waned, to rich afternoon blooms of grey and brown and distant-it might fairly have been beautiful Hampshire-blue.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James
When the Yankees took New Bern, two years before the war ended, we all were refuged to Franklin County to keep them from setting us free.
"Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2"
Work Projects Administration