Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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To the pangs of exile which Dante suffered were added the pangs of disappointment. The whips and stings which be had to bear drove him at length to take refuge within himself and there in the sanctuary of his own soul he found the peace and security he had yearned...
When a country is conquered and taken possession of by an emigrating tribe who bring with them their women and children, the material of the population is changed, the aborigines take refuge in the mountains and their language perpetuates itself there, as snow maintains itself all summer in certain mountainclefts...
The arguments for the affirmative side may be summed up about as follows: Immigration is innate in man, and no country has a right to shut its ports to those honestly wishing new homes. Here we have vast extent of lands ready to receive all who care to come. Our...
...have been made without any elaborate plan simply because they were American sailors. This outrage demanded punishment of the offenders and an immediate apology, but the Chielans took refuge in delay. Minister Egan, meanwhile, had taken into the protection of the United States legation, a large party of Balmacedist refugees, and although this was his right, yet it was disagreeable to the Chileans. The safe conduct out of the country for these refugees, which Mr. Egan demanded of Matta, the foreign minister, was refused and soon after this minister wrote to the ambassadors, notes making abusive charges of bad faith...
Miss Jeannette Gilder of the Critic contributes a short sketch of an American princess, the wife of Prince Lucien Murat who sought refuge in this country and settled in Bordentown, New Jersey, that home of expelled Bonapartes.