Sheltered

Examples

• Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was one of the oldest farms in the neighbourhood, situated in a solitary, sheltered spot, inland at the junction of two hills. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My new name sheltered me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Several fragments of loose stone formed a kind of breast-work, which sheltered their position from the observation of those below. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This end was sheltered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I should have gone to bed with a sore heart indeed under any other roof but that which sheltered little Em'ly's head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Moreover, he it was who sheltered Egbert, an exile from Wessex in England, and assisted him presently to establish himself as King in Wessex (802). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here at the brickyard we were sheltered from rifle or machine-gun fire by the river bank. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When opposition was encountered our troops sheltered themselves by keeping under the arches supporting the aqueduct, advancing an arch at a time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The reddleman struck a light, kindled an inch of tallow-candle which he had brought, and sheltered it with his cap. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Whatever there was of abiding worth in the life of the community sheltered there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They lived together, these three people--the mistress, the chaplain, the servant--all old, all feeble, all sheltered under one kind wing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His aspiration was for a free people, well sheltered, well fed, well clad, well instructed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I could see, from my window, the lantern they had left him burning quietly; and I went to bed very happy to think that he was sheltered. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Only one voice cried out: 'Th' stone were meant for thee; but thou wert sheltered behind a woman! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Here Wildeve waited, slightly sheltered from the driving rain by a high bank that had been cast up at this place. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The walk being here less sheltered than on the other side, allowed them to see him before they met. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Ventilate on the sheltered side of the house. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In all the work that they, the _partizans_, did, they brought added danger and bad luck to the people that sheltered them and worked with them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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