abiding-places

If he would, he could command us to quit our abiding-places for a desert country wherein we might not endure to sojourn; and if he desired to destroy us, he would bid us destroy ourselves, whereupon we should destroy one another. wherefore we may not disobey his bidding for, if we did this, he would consume us with fire nor could we flee from before him to any asylum.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The other shelves, where they had not been cut away and used by the owner for other purposes, were fitted up for the abiding-places of birds, beasts, and reptiles.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

All over Europe caves are found containing bones of human beings, most of which are recognised by scientists to belong to an earlier race, who made use of these homes provided by Nature, both for abiding-places during life and resting-places for the dead.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Encarnacion and Tomas, and others their brethren, from the Mexican village a few miles up the creek, or from isolated abiding-places round about.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

They had stolen away through the tall grass to their abiding-places, and the prairie showed no sign of any living creature save himself.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

From the proofs of partial civilisation found in their deserted homes, we may believe them to have been more refined and gentler than the savage Apaches and similar fighting tribes who overcame them, and drove them out to find fresh abiding-places.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Mr. Spenlow conducted me through a paved courtyard formed of grave brick houses, which I inferred, from the Doctors 'names upon the doors, to be the official abiding-places of the learned advocates of whom Steerforth had told me; and into a large dull room, not unlike a chapel to my thinking, on the left hand.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

In 1862, there were thirty-five public and private hospitals in Richmond; and churches were likewise converted into temporary abiding-places for those who had been shot in the field.

Chapter XII 1917

Commonwealth remained the freest and one of the wealthiest abiding-places in the world.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

Altogether the room was both quaint and artistic, and with its few plain chairs and tables, mostly heirlooms, and all of good old colonial design, was a room in which one could readily imagine one's self sitting down to a winter evening of cosy comfort, such as is not always to be had in far finer abiding-places.

The Indifference of Juliet Henry Hutt 1912