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shelter

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" Shelter " is a song by English indie pop band The xx . It is the seventh track on their début album, xx , and the only track from it that was written and performed without former member Baria Qureshi. The songs lyrics were written by Romy Madley Croft, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "structure affording protection," possibly an alteration of Middle English sheltron , sheldtrume "roof or wall formed by locked shields," from Old English scyldtruma , from scield "shield" (see shield (n.)) + truma "troop," related to Old English ...

Usage examples of shelter.

Their street, Clay Avenue, was more modest than most of the affluent byways of Pelham, but it was sheltered, shady, and quiet.

The delineation was faithful, and aided very much in rendering concealment difficult, for it prevented the timid from affording shelter to the chiefs as soon as they became fugitives.

What if they had made some machine to shelter them, something more powerful than the giant amplifier the thrint patriarchs had built on Homeworld?

I had always lived a perfectly sheltered life back in Boston, with the antimacassars and the walnut furniture and the volumes of Emerson and Thoreau.

But it has now been shown that deep artificially constructed shelters do in fact exist.

Great balks of timber were being thrust out and now, in the shelter of these, hundreds of men and women from the Citadel were streaming to help.

The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.

Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.

Here, near that island where her army sheltered, the birds had been hunted out, so they had the water to themselves and their progress flushed no betraying clatter of wings.

The important thing to Bleys would be not so much to find Hal as to find what it was that could have brought him out from behind the shelter of the phase-shield.

Ganesh sulkily, standing in the shelter of a convenient doorway, his hands stuck in the pockets of his blouson jacket.

Or he could bluster afoot into his forbidden backyard and drag his canopy around the side of his house like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Neanderthal Man, a savage making off with shelter.

Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.

Patrick leaned over the side of the shelter where Bounder was hobbled and watched him eat the tufts of dried grass that Mackenzie had found for him.

He stood or squatted within bowshot, but behind such rocks and stunted trees as offered shelter.