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Sentences ending with shelter

Wolf was acquainted with the city, and perhaps would spare him a walk by informing him where the sick lads would find the best shelter. [10]
Henceforth she must walk in the scorching sun without protection or shelter. [10]
You people must wait, we will soon call you to come under shelter. [10]
His three friends urged Billy to turn back, since they were out of provisions and had no shelter. [11]
They filled the town; they more than filled it; inns and lodgings were packed, and yet half of the inflow had to go without shelter. [5]
The longer Paulus thought it over, the more indispensable it seemed to him that he should himself accompany the Gaulish lady to Alexandria, and in his own person find her a safe shelter. [10]
An officer of their regiment, with long mustaches extending onto his cheeks, who after riding to the staff had been overtaken by the rain, entered Rostov's shelter. [2]
You come and take our land and our game, and we at last have to beg of you for food and shelter. [11]
A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter. [2]
A great thunderstorm overtook them on their way that summer evening to the station; but they had no time to seek shelter. [14]

Short sentences using shelter

To shelter this vast emptiness? [5]
They reached shelter that night. [11]
Terrorized, I sought for shelter. [9]

Sentences containing shelter two or more times

There is a little shelter here in the trees"-- pointing to the right--"a shelter built by the late manager. [11]

More example sentences with the word shelter in them

Listen--but first, will you shelter me here to-night? [11]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
There are no words to express how grateful I am that she did not meet her fate in the hands of strangers, but in the loving shelter of her own home. [5]
The way she went gave no shelter save the trees and caves which had been used to cache buffalo meat and hides in old days. [11]
And how can we remain the Sages and continue to develop and absorb all learning within the shelter of our temples, not only without endangering the weak, but for their benefit? [10]
What delight it was to burst from the shelter of the thicket and touch with our poles two, three, or four of the surprised enemies ere they thought of defence! [10]
The old man was rejoiced to see them, and told them at once that his old mistress had promised Herse to give Dada shelter if she should return to them. [10]
The whole street was like a crowded fair; and Alexander had several times to follow Agatha and her escort out into the roadway, quitting the shelter of the arcade, to escape a party of rioters or the impertinent addresses of strangers. [10]
The little street was deserted, but in Pall Mall the dark forms of busses could be made out scurrying for shelter, one wondered where? [9]
Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
Hitherto she had walked on without goal or purpose, but here the question where to seek shelter confronted her; for the torchbearers who had lighted the way disappeared one after another in the various houses. [10]
Last November he walked five blocks in a rainstorm, without any shelter but an umbrella, and cast his vote for Grant, remarking that he had voted for forty-seven presidents--which was a lie. [5]
This shelter is very much thinner now; still, there is a sufficiency of smoke there, I think. [5]
They had passed us as we came down, for we had sailed inside some islands of the coast, getting shelter and better passage, and the fleet had, no doubt, passed outside. [11]
Here they were upon a now hostile shore without food, fire, shelter, and weapons; their situation was desperate even yet. [11]
Then she went towards two blocks of stone which leaned against each other, and between them afforded the spot of shade, not many feet wide, which Paaker had pointed out as a shelter from the sun. [10]
Only"--and he turned to Timotheus--"this house of your god, which has given me shelter, with the priests and the treasure of great Serapis, are spared. [10]
I've no doves to shelter, and my skin is thicker than yours. [10]
We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
It is proposed to reduce the width where excessive by brushwood dykes, at first low, but raised higher and higher as the mud of the river settles under their shelter, and finally slope them back at the angle upon which willows will grow freely. [5]
The nobleman returning to his home had no occasion to find shelter in a tavern. [10]
She felt thankful to him for the shelter he was affording her, but often said to herself, "It's a shame to let him see in my cryings a reproach--as if he could ever do anything that could make me reproach him! [5]
These were sufficient to carry him through in three years, and there was enough profit-sharing from the drug-business he had founded on terms to shelter his mother and his younger brothers, while he took honours at the University. [11]
For the first time she asked where she was to find shelter in Ratisbon; the Emperor's command closed Wolf's house against her; the Prebrunn castle was only a summer residence, unfit for winter use. [10]
We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head. [5]
Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
Nor do I think that we need to take shelter behind the wellworn and convenient observation, the truth of which stands in much doubt, that literature is the final flower of a nation's civilization. [4]
Peter commanded, that they should have shelter for the night in the town-hall and the guard-house at the gate. [10]
In this work there are many details connected with the forms of these shelter dykes, their arrangements so as to present a series of settling basins, etc., a description of which would only complicate the conception. [5]
Under cover of the shelter, she turned and smiled at him. [11]
The interior of the peasant hut was filled with people who had sought shelter there, and the stifling atmosphere which the artist felt at the door induced him to remain outside. [10]
The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north, propped up by musket rests, and a campfire was built before it. [2]
I plucked at the king's robe and we drew back and took shelter behind the corner of the cabin. [5]
The smell of the karoo bush is sweeter than attar, and the bog-myrtle and mimosa, where they shelter a house or fringe a river, have a look of Arcady. [11]
In front of the farmhouse, too, which Hermon and his companion next reached, they saw dozens of people seeking shelter, and the Midianite urged his master to join them for a short time at least. [10]
She also learned that the wounded Ephraim had found shelter in his uncle's tent. [10]
It is better than the gross obscenities of Rabelais, and perhaps in some day to come, the taste that justified Gargantua and the Decameron will give this literary refugee shelter and setting among the more conventional writing of Mark Twain. [5]
Will the cracked Teacup hold together, or will he go to pieces, and find himself in that retreat where the owner of the terrible clock which drove him crazy is walking under the shelter of the high walls? [6]
By mid-day the strips of shade too had vanished, where she had found shelter from the rays of the sun, which now beat down unmercifully on her un protected head. [10]
He kills the starving stranger who comes begging for food and shelter there is proof of it. [5]
The bungalows (dwellings) stand well back in the seclusion and privacy of large enclosed compounds (private grounds, as we should say) and in the shade and shelter of trees. [5]
Everything was at stake; her father's life and with it maintenance and shelter for eight helpless creatures. [10]
Verily, your great spirit can be but a weak and miserable creature, if he need a covering from the wind and rain, and a shelter from the heat which he himself has created. [10]
A canoe was softly and hastily pushed out from its hidden shelter under the overhanging bank, and was noiselessly paddled out to midstream, dropping down the current meanwhile. [11]
We all got so that we could tell a good deal about shells; and after that we didn't always go under shelter if it was a light shower. [5]
For, believe me, sir, there is no greater rogue unhanged, as you shall find some day to the hurt of your colony, if you shelter him. [11]
I have long since observed that the fate of the house to which your father and mother belong is a matter of perfect indifference to you; and yet you would have to seek shelter and protection under its roof if your husband--" "Well, mother? [10]
Nothing of life showed, save the cattle here and there, creeping away to the shelter of the foothills for the night. [11]
They do not shelter the horses in the tents, either--they must stay out and take the weather as it comes. [5]
And from the shelter of its trees we saw the steely lines of a score of low ponds, and over the tops of as many ridges a huddle of brown houses on the higher ground. [9]
The only safe shelter I can offer you is the prison down there; the room where they lock up the subaltern officers when they have committed any offence is quite unoccupied, and I will conduct you thither. [10]
Rather will I shelter him from thy revenge, knowing as I do the impure source from which it springs. [10]
She would not shelter herself; she would not give him the right in the future to say she had not dealt fairly by him, had evaded any inquest of her life or mind which he might make. [11]
Two years before she had spent a whole month as a guest in his wealthy household, and she intended now to seek shelter there again. [10]
If Great Britain shall choose to recognize them as lawful belligerents, and give them shelter from our pursuit and punishment, the laws of nations afford an adequate and proper remedy [and we shall avail ourselves of it. [7]
In their scant shadow, or in the shelter of an overhanging ledge of rock, Arabs offered us draughts of cool water, and oranges. [11]
It had been said of Dollier de Casson that once, attacked by two renegade Frenchmen, he had broken the leg of one and the back of the other, and had then picked them up and carried them for miles to shelter and nursing. [11]
I must always remember Shunem gratefully, as a place which gave to us this leafy shelter after our long, hot ride. [5]
Jorg, the charcoal-burner, received them, and opened his hut, but only to go away himself, for though willing to give the fugitives shelter and act against the authorities, he did not wish to be present, if the refugees should be caught. [10]
From Tanis they reached Tennis in a few hours, and found shelter in the home of the superintendent of Archias's weaving establishments, whose hospitality Myrtilus and Hermon had enjoyed before their installation in the white house, now burned to the ground. [10]
Can he, or rather can they, for there will probably be two, find shelter and protection in your father's house, which lies high up there on the sacred mountain? [10]
It seemed a providential time to eat my luncheon; and I took shelter under a scraggy pine that had rooted itself in the edge of the rocky slope. [4]
You will find protection and shelter in their house. [10]
Julia greeted the pretty creature in whom she had once taken a motherly interest with affectionate sympathy, beckoned Arsinoe to her, smiled as she listened to her request for a night's shelter, and led her with much satisfaction to her husband. [10]
We are not permitted to shelter her here any longer, and if we turn her out--" "What is the matter with the woman? [10]
He, for his part, would soonest have found shelter with us; but Cousin Maud refused it, and with good reason, inasmuch as I had freely told her that never in this world would I hearken to his suit. [10]
Unless the unbelievers over there give him shelter we are certain to have him. [10]
Who can call Out perfect peace from any ritual, Or shelter find in systems of a day? [11]
The veteran starts out from the shelter of the Home. [4]
However, one by one they straggled in at last and took shelter under the tent, cold, scared, and streaming with water; but to have company in misery seemed something to be grateful for. [5]
One walks from one end to the other of these spacious streets, under shelter all the time, and all his course is lined with the prettiest of shops and the most inviting dining-houses. [5]
Night was drawing on, and then where could she take refuge and find shelter? [10]
To fall back on the errors of the time is very proper when we are trying our predecessors in foro conscientace: The houses they dwelt in may have had some weak or decayed beams and rafters, but they served for their shelter, at any rate. [6]
His widow here offers shelter to all who need it. [10]
Caracalla, thinking only of the happy omen of Tarautas's wonderful escape, called out to Melissa, with affectionate anxiety, to fly to shelter as quickly as possible; a chariot was in waiting to convey her to the Serapeum. [10]
Under the shelter of the foothills, cold as the day was, his cattle were feeding in the open, scratching away the thin layer of snow, and browsing on the tender grass underneath. [11]
In the shelter of that the intercourse of the summer took on natural relations. [4]
A few drops of rain warned me to seek shelter. [9]
But the Convent of Pillenreuth was a right comfortable shelter, and my lady the Abbess a woman of high degree and fine, hospitable manners; and the table was made longer in a winking, and laid with white napery and plates and all befitting. [10]
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter, where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. [6]
Hermon and Bias obtained shelter on one of the ships which the sovereign had placed at the disposal of the Greeks who came to participate in the festivals to be celebrated. [10]
If you do not, when all the truth is known, you will find no shelter from the storm that will break over you. [11]
In that case none would give him food or shelter or the hand of friendship; none dare show him any kindness; and it was the law that any one against whom he committed an offence, however small, might take his life. [11]
His occupation was nominally a pilot in a bay rarely touched by vessels, and then only for shelter. [11]
We passed the night in a grotto hollowed in the snow, which afforded us but poor shelter, and I was ill all night. [5]
London is a nation of something like four millions of inhabitants, and one does not feel easy without he has an assured place of shelter. [6]
Who would hide me, shelter me? [11]
And if your master looks you up and insists on your assisting at the sacrifice or what ever it may be, you will find shelter with us. [10]
She didn't laugh loud--we, of course, wished she would--but kept in the shelter of a fan, and shook until there was danger that she would unhitch her ribs from her spine. [5]
I'll go and look for shelter. [2]
The poorest man lives secure under the shelter of the law, and through us participates in the gifts of the spirit; to the rich are offered the priceless treasures of art and learning. [10]
Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws. [5]
No one who knew him would shelter him. [11]
And to do it in the early morning--to wait in the shelter of the trees till some go to look after the horses, then enter the house, arrest those inside, and lay low for the rest. [11]
For me it is nothing, whether it be now or in a few benumbing years; but for thee--is there no one whom thou lovest so well that thou wouldst not shelter thy life to spare that life sorrow? [11]
This night's shelter is a god-send. [11]
It had made him so happy to think that he was all in all to the poor orphan, and could shelter her against pressing want. [10]
He had aimed high, at first, but as time and his money wasted away he grew less and less exacting, until at last he was willing to serve in the humblest capacities if so he might get bread and shelter. [5]
This thought strengthened Hermon's courage to twice ride past other farmhouses which offered shelter. [10]
For the struggle here throughout the centuries has not been in the interest of any private family, or any church, but in the interest of the whole body of the nation, and for shelter and protection of all forms of belief. [5]

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