And these shelters have been utilised by man from the period when the first occupants of the district arrived at a vastly remote period, almost uninterruptedly to the present day.
There was going to be another battle, and, though we were not taking part, our area was wanted for a Support Division, so we were to go back across the Canal, and take over some shelters in the old front line trench on the Ridge.
Riquerval Bridge over the Canal and up to the Ridge, passing the Brigadier on the main road by the Canal, and found the Brigade we were to relieve, sitting very comfortably in their shelters and huts.
In consequence, the trenches were full of mud and water, and most of the bivouacs and shelters were afloat.
Surrounding it were the tents and shelters of his white companions and the natives of his safari.
Keeping the tent between him and herself, she crossed between the small shelters of the native porters to the boma wall beyond.
There is a plane tree, wondrous old, and with seven twin trunks, standing before our tents, and in it there is a hollow whichshelters securely as a house.
The guns were kept in shelters in a line of reserve trenches and a set of dummy emplacements was dug out a little distance away for the benefit of our aeroplane observers.
We managed to rig up a few wooden shelters and bivouacs amongst the ruins of the houses.
Here there were plenty of small German shelters and dugouts partially protected by a shallow trench.
The observers were quartered in a number of small shelters on the high ground between Coigneux and Bus, well back from the shelled and bombed area.
I made an entirely new Brigade bomb store in these trenches, using the little shelters in a line of disused trenches.
Here on the second day I took a small party of men, as a working party, to the shelters at the 'Sunken Road,' rather nearer the line.
The shelters were in the side of a green mound, near the Bus waterworks; and this place was used as a battle O.
The nutritive grasses and natural shelters make this an ideal cattle-raising section.
Wikiups, improvised shelters of willows, are also used in fair weather.
The grounds are being landscaped, foot trails laid out, and picnic shelters built.
Stores of wood were brought for the night, shelters were rigged up for the officers, caldrons were being boiled, and muskets and accouterments put in order.
In the twilight saddled horses could be seen, and Cossacks and hussars who had rigged up rough shelters in the glade and were kindling glowing fires in a hollow of the forest where the French could not see the smoke.
The Building Brigade--For whom we shall find ample employment in the erection of our Labour Sheds, Shelters and Farms.
The people do come to the Salvation Army's establishments, and they do behave well in the Shelters and the Workshops.
No temptation was afforded by the workshops or shelters to induce people to stay away from ordinary industrial life longer than they could possibly help.
By means ofshelters and training factories in the towns, he would give every one a chance who wishes to work, however "lost" their character may have become.
There others were digging and burying logs deep in the earth, installing shelters and mitrailleuses or feverishly building fortifications.
And the trek-waggon barricades, and the shelters panelled and roofed with corrugated iron.
At last we were in this dear Empress's bedroom, the abode which shelters for such a considerable number of hours of every twenty-four the most powerful woman in Asia.
Ammunition shelters: See that there are a sufficient number of shelters for rifle ammunition, grenades, rockets and other supplies.
In sectors that have been the scenes of offensives the several elements remain in the same relation, but as the villages have been obliterated, shelters must be provided.
These people built their shelters of boughs and bark, and to some extent lived in tents made of the skins of animals.
These people live in sheltersmade of boughs piled up in circles and covered with juniper bark supported by poles.
The clouds discharge their moisture in torrents, and we make for ourselves shelters of boughs, only to be soon abandoned, and we stand shivering by a great fire of pine logs and boughs, which the pelting storm half extinguishes.
They are without lodges, but have built little shelters of boughs, under which' they wallow in the sand.
During the inclement season they live in sheltersmade of boughs or the bark of the cedar, which they strip off in long shreds.
Then they constructed stairways in the soft rock, by which their cavate houses were reached; and in these rock shelters they lived during times of war.
A coppice of holm-oaks shelters it from the north wind.
The great reed of the south, the Arundo donax, is often used, in the country, for rough garden-shelters against the mistral or just for fences.
In some of the trenches the shelters were more elaborate, and varied from an almost shot-proof retreat to a simple tent, made out of two raw cow skins stretched over bamboos.
They had, of course, no tents, but had fashioned fantastic shelters out of stone and wood and wire.
The cooking pots were still on the camp fires; the rude shelters under which our hardy enemy had lived were still intact.
About the foot of these bastion-like ridges is the squalor of a neglected camp, and on all sides are rifle pits and trenches and stone shelters and hidden holes.
One of the most remarkable of these natural shelters belonging to the reindeer epoch has been discovered at Bruniquel, in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, not far from Montauban.
The second figure is an entire mammoth, graven on a fragment of reindeer horn, from the rock-shelters of Bruniquel, and belongs to M.
In general shape it reminded him of the little wayside shelters which, called dak bungalows in India, were known beyond the borders as rest-houses.
The early explorer, Bonneville, found the tribes of Snake River wintering in brush shelters without roofs merely heaps of brush piled high, behind which the Indians crouched for protection from wind and snow.
The steel used in these individual shelters was about one-eighth of an inch thick.
It would seem as though a merciful Providence had not only provided the first shelters for man against the inclemency of the weather, but had also furnished him with places of secure refuge against the violence of his fellow-man.
Not till the chalk and the limestone shelters were stocked, and could hold no more, would men be driven to invent for themselves other dwellings.
It is generally supposed that parasites are exceptional beings, requiring a place by themselves in the animal hierarchy, and knowing nothing of the world except the organ which shelters them.
They respect the hearth which shelters them, and their progeny are not developed by their side.
Packets of socks and shirts showed where an English quartermaster's stores had been, and flapping canvas and dismantled shelters were evidence of a local débâcle to our side.
I like to think of my wood, where I was so rarely found, whither perplexed runners brought orders so late, where I never was relieved, but where my old shelters of tin and brushwood escaped disturbance in my absence.
Holes filled with water were the result, and nearly all the tents and shelters had to be moved.
I had my company in shelters under a bank, clear of the village but immediately in front of a battery of 18-pounder guns, whose incessant firing, added to the evil whistle of the German shells, deprived the nights of comfortable sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shelters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
