This is called chena jungle, and is always the favourite resort of elephants and all wild animals, the impervious character of the bush forming a secure retreat.

The elephants had retired to this secure retreat, and having winded us they kept up an uninterrupted roaring.

That man knew of retreats more secure than Rueil, darker and more silent even than the Bastile.

Buddha escaped the vigilance of his guards, and having found a secure retreat, lived for six years undisturbed in his devout contemplations.

I'll bet it wasn't for the archaeological or geological prospects, but because it served as a secure retreat.

For a moment he felt trapped up here; the secure retreat turned prison.

In 1923, Corbett first discovered the tiger in a steep ravine within a secure retreat.

Gulko's careful 17 . . . Qd7 prepared the secure retreat 19 . . . Nb7.

We'd need a secure retreat, somewhere in the mountains here.

Now I found that a secure retreat was provided for me in my extremity.