How to use "asylum" in a sentence

He wrote that he was afraid of becoming like his mother and 'the best thing for me was to die.' His mother was in an asylum for lunatics

After a few days in prison, Helene had been moved to a nearby asylum for the criminally insane

Helene was allowed visitors at the asylum, and I went to see her on Sundays

When I arrived at the asylum that afternoon, Helene took me outside

'Protect my boy from what? Don't you understand? I'm here so that Henri won't be the son of a woman who went to the guillotine for having murdered his father! Don't you understand that I would much prefer the guillotine to the living death of this asylum?'

'She's escaped from my asylum!' the man replied, and he drove off.

There stood Miss Fairlie, alone outside in the moonlight, looking exactly like the woman in white! I suddenly realised that the 'something missing' was this: my realisation of the disturbing similarity between the fugitive from the asylum and my student at Limmeridge House.

Mrs Catherick told him that she wanted to put Anne in a private asylum, but she did not have enough money

My daughter was put into a private asylum with my knowledge and approval

Sir Percival Glyde very kindly paid for the asylum, and I thank him for that.

How she hates him! She said that her mother had told her a secret - Percival's secret - and when he discovered that Anne knew it, he put her in the asylum.-'

The Count had left a letter for my uncle, telling him that Anne Catherick was back in the asylum, but she now believed that she was Lady Glyde! I left Limmeridge and went to the asylum

Imagine my feelings, Walter, when I saw my dear sister there in the asylum, and that everyone believed she was Anne Catherick! I gave the nurse one hundred pounds to help Laura escape

Her face was pale and thin, and her long suffering in the asylum had affected her mind, so that her expression was vague and her memory confused

He was sure that she knew his secret, so he put her in the asylum

'Yesterday, I looked out of the window in our old house, and I saw the Count standing outside with the doctor from the asylum! Then they went away

The Count had contacted the asylum doctor and said he knew where Anne Catherick was

He said, "Tell Mr Hartright to stay away from me! If I must put your pretty sister back in the asylum to stop Mr Hartright from investigating me, I shall do so

The only thing that had not improved was her memory of the period between her departure from Blackwater Park and her escape from the asylum

The fact that Anne had escaped from the asylum first gave me the idea for the conspiracy

I met Lady Glyde at the station with a carriage, but it was not my carriage: it was the carriage of the doctor from the asylum