The next thing to be thought of was to provide some sort of shelter for the soldiers; for they had no tents, and all the houses had been destroyed.
Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent fancy, to yourshelter underneath the holly!
He procured a lot of shelter tents, which were distributed, and the work of setting them up commenced.
There was nothing to lie upon except our gum blankets, and no better shelter than what could be improvised by stretching the tents--with which we were now temporarily provided--from the top of a fence to the ground.
Some were in ambulances, while others lay in the bottoms of ordinary farm wagons, with little or noshelter from the hot sun.
Red Indian observes, from his shelter amidst the trees of the forest, the movements of the hunter, who himself watches from an ambush the course of a herd of deer.
They provided food and lodging for the persecuted; in certain small hamlets in the area there was not a single farm which did not giveshelter to a Jewish family.
The wall extended to the wood of la Garenne, and the little band, believing that now their safety was assured, made a rush for the protection afforded by some farm buildings, whence they readily gained the shelter of the trees.
Maurice, wondering whether Honore and his guns were not of the party, raised his head to look, but the reserve artillery was at the rear, in the shelter of a little grove of trees.
All night long the engineers had been busy with pick and shovel, and even after the Prussians had opened fire they were still digging away at their shelter trenches and throwing up epaulments.
She must have takenshelter with Doctor Dalichamp, her godfather.
What roof would afford himshelter while he waited?
So long as the houses were there to afford him shelter he took advantage of every doorway, of every bit of projecting wall, shrinking at every volley into cavities that were ridiculously small in comparison with his bulk.
The gigantic trunks of the centenarian monarchs were amply sufficient to afford shelter to two men.
Where were they to look for a shelter that gave promise of security?
And they knew it, and they gave their life, freely, without a murmur, closing up their ranks and leaving the shelter of the trees to meet afresh the storm of shell and bullets.
Presently Caleb stepped forward from the shelter of a wall and called out that if the Prefect Marcus would meet him alone in the open space he had something to say which he would be glad to hear.
There were not more than fifty or sixty of these, so the wide arches of the surrounding cloisters gave them sufficient shelter and even privacy.
As to where she should dwell, since tumults were so many in Jerusalem, she suggested that she might find a home in one of the coast cities, where perhaps some friend or relative of the brethren would shelter Nehushta and herself.
To go to my cousin Mathias, the high priest at Jerusalem," answered the old man, "who has promised to give me shelter if in these days any can be found.
Only they manned the walls to right and left, and held the gateway, but to the roof where Miriam was they did not climb, because its parapet was too low to shelter them from the arrows of their assailants.
She crouched behind the shelter of her pinnacle gasping for breath.
Little wonder that we are smitten with the Sword of God when Rabbis shelter Christians because they chance to be of their house, and when warriors bear false witness concerning them because they chance to be fair.
Now, who would have thought that the noble Captain Marcus would shelter thus behind a woman's robe?
Her passage through the winter gales had been hard, and for weeks at a time she had been obliged to shelter in harbours by the way.
On it, projecting inward from the parapet, was a sloping shelter once made use of by the look-out sentry in bad or hot weather.
Also, the lives of others are at stake, of my friends who have sheltered me, and who, as I trust, will now shelter him.
Only they made use of the base of the tower to shelter those of their wounded whose hurts were so desperate that they dared not move them.
They shrink aside or downward trying to find shelter from the angry winds that are so cutting.
Their cooling shelter comforts the cattle; they furnish coursing-places among their branches for the sportive climbing-animals, and their tender twigs give restful delight to the little birds far out of reach of any foe.
The shrinking of mountain trees where the rock affords some warmth and shelter is shown on a larger scale in the forms of trees that stand at the edge of a forest.
In vain does the physician seek to shelter his wife from the chill of her environment.
Can revenge awaken my dead Or shelter me from the cold?
I am here to offer him the more secure shelter of the Manor.
And for her sake I am about to be false to the oath I swore as an officer, I am about to give aid and shelter to an enemy of my king.
The fleeing lovers had reached this lonely mountain valley of the Big Horn region on the night that the cold fall rains set in, and Antelope had hurriedly constructed an arbor house or rude shelter of pine and cedar boughs.
The river just here made a sharp turn, forming a densely wooded semicircle, in the shelter of a high bluff.
There is only oneshelter from this storm; there is only one covert from this tempest.
The peg-rhizoids, which are peculiar to the group, converge under shelter of the amphigastria to the midrib, beneath which they form a wick-like strand.
A range of low hills affords shelter on the west and south-west; but on every other side there are drained, though still unhealthy, marshes, stretching away to meet the central Walachian plains.
Van Rensselaer being wounded in six places--hurried his men under the shelter of the overhanging rocks, keeping up an intermittent fire, and waited for reinforcements.
He made no effort to shelter himself behind any plausible excuse that would have been gratefully seized by the timid or calculating man, or to fence with his duty.
The ships of England," he continued, "had been refused shelter in United States harbours, while refuge had been extended to the ships of our inveterate enemies.
Secretary of War, compelling 400 women and children to seek shelter in the woods, with the thermometer ranging around zero.
The 600 Indians deployed in the shelter of the woods, skirmishing to effect a flank movement.
Some raced headlong down the main road, seeking shelter under the muzzles of Holcroft's guns; some sought refuge in the houses; others raced to the landing only to find the boats no longer there.
He built dockyards to shelter His Majesty's navy, which consisted of two small vessels!
As an alternative he could perhaps have withdrawn and soughtshelter in the village.
These twelve gates surround the entire world, that is they are a shelter for all creatures.
Thou hast lit a flame within the lamp of the Company on high, thou hast set foot in the Abhá Paradise, thou hast found a shelter in the shadow of the Blessed Tree, thou hast attained His meeting in the haven of Heaven.
Praise be to God, those two faithful birds have sought shelter in one nest.
We are servants of Thy Threshold, taking shelter at Thy holy Door.
Regarding the health society of which thou art a member, once it cometh under the shelter of this Faith its influence shall increase a hundredfold.
Thou who art neath the shelterof God, and under the shadow of the Tree of His Covenant, why sorrow and repine?
Today that vast stretch of land hath become mostly the shelter and asylum of Turkoman tribes, and an arena for the ferocious display of wild beasts.
Lift Me up unto Thee, shelter Me close to Thee, make Me a dwelling by Thy throne of glory.
Whoso seeketh shelter under this roof will certainly come forth from other dwellings.
They turned each canoe on its side, propping the ends with sticks driven into the ground, thus making canopies like half-roofs to shelter them for the night.
First a large house roofed with hides, and divided into apartments, was finished to shelter all.
Elmer, with characteristic generosity, had chosen last, and hence he lay nearer the outside of the shelter than any of his mates.
Elmer, assisted by George and Toby, meanwhile started to see how some sort of shelter could be arranged with the four rubber ponchos which they carried.
I can give a pretty good guess that you've been having some rough times, and will be glad of a shelter to-night.
As it turned out, after the conference, Elmer had changed his figures a little, and the latest plan was to head a point south of northwest when they started forth in hopes of finding shelter from the storm.
In later and degenerate ages almost any structure would serve the purpose; it might be a flimsy shed or an extemporaneous lanai such as is used to shelter that al fresco entertainment, the luau.
Translation] Song It was in Hamakua; I sat in a grove of Pandanus, A stranger at my arrival, A rock was my shelter from rain.
The most plausible view is that this is an exclamation made by one of the two travelers while crouching for shelter under an overhanging bank.
But, sweet, So big my heart has grown with love for you I cannot shelter it or keep it hid.
There were many who were anxious about home friends and hastened away in the vehicles so hastily summoned; but there were also many whose only home was a boarding-house and who were thankful for the shelter and hospitality offered.
The shelter was speedily found, but the aid came too late; and for a time the women of the Fort had a difficult task in comforting the fright-crazed boy.
So the Snowbird was brought out, and she led the pretty creature away behind the shelter of the few trees which hid the spot where Osceolo had bade her meet him.
Let him choose now a house of refuge for you and the little children; choose it where there are trees to shelter and water to refresh.
Any shelter would be better than none, in this creeping moisture.
Her change of direction must have brought her all the more plainly into view of the pursuing soldiers, but in a few moments she had gained the shelter of a group of trees.
Here may Wahneenah, and the young son and daughter which have been given her, find shelter and sustenance.
A shiver ran through the lad's frame, and he crept within the shelter of Wahneenah's arm.
Some of de colored peoples have bresh (brush) shelter whe' dey go to church in dem days, but all us go to de white folks church.
De bush was dey shelter en when it rain, dey meet round from one house to another.
Furman house is ramshackle but it is still standin' out dere and is used as a shelter for sawmill hands dat is cuttin' down de big pines and sawin' them on de place.
In 1567 Mary made Bothwell keeper of the castle, and sought itsshelter herself after the murder of Rizzio and again after her flight from Borthwick Castle.
The Austrian Lloyd steamers call at intervals, and some shipbuilding and fishing are carried on; but the harbour lacks shelter and is liable to deposits of silt.
Baliol in the neighbourhood in 1296, and it afforded shelter to Edward II.
One night, a flea took shelter in the merchant's carpet-bed and, finding his body soft, and being thirsty drank of his blood.
But I preferred the shelter of a big tree, and enduring the rain that filtered through the leaves, rather than listen to this distracting talk of Jack and Jim about the flesh-pots of old Bill Williams.
Then, with much profanity, he declared that he wasn't going to stand up on that bank, he was going down into the cut, where he could have some shelter from the wind and rain.
At first sight indeed it may seem as if this shelter in the wilderness were incompatible with the task of witnessing assigned to her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shelter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
