It curved almost as smoothly as the slope of a crater, and shelved to a small semi-circular bay.
The beach shelved steeply, and her stern lay well afloat; nor was there any run of sea to baffle him by throwing her broadside-on to the stones.
Every available nook and crevice was occupied along a wide slope which shelved away until it met the vertical cliffs falling to the ocean.
From this rimshelved down a smooth and polished base, marked with fine vertical striae.
His strong disbelief modified her belief in a fleeting instant, and Mom's eyes darkened with the remembrance of shelved glances and curt remarks which now took on an entirely different perspective.
This concession to a Central Asian despot was not agreeable at head-quarters, and the question was shelved for the time.
And shelved to the chamber secluded Where Bluebeard, the great lion, brooded.
The 'Irish Dragoon' has been shelved these twelve days.
Meanwhile I must press forward with my 'Knight,' which for some weeks I have shelved entirely.
It was shelved in some pigeon-hole, and the Colonel was to stand by and see his men sicken and die, while a rebel farmer's house near by would have saved many of them.
It should be shelved to contain such documents as registers, minutes and other local records in a convenient manner, and should be kept well ventilated and dry for the safe preservation of its contents.
Large and odd-sized books should be shelved in special presses, and their place in the classification can be indicated by means of dummies, as described below.
In calculating the number of volumes which can be shelved in a given space, the following general rules will be found fairly accurate:-- Nine lending library books will occupy one foot run of space.
Shelf Dummy for Book Shelved out of Order (Section 247).
But this proposal, whichshelved both Joseph and Louis, was not only hotly resented by the eldest brother, who claimed to be successor designate, it also aroused the flames of jealousy in Louis himself.
His brain was so busy over these discoveries that he disregarded the really remarkable way in which the object of his visit had been shelved for the moment.
Then set your mind at rest," he said, with the nonchalance of a man who has shelved a major difficulty.
The cliffshelved over some feet, making a natural shade and cover, and here we placed the proper seats, two only being at the foot of the tree whose occupants read and responded to the church service.
Below the fort the ground shelved rapidly for several yards to the edge of the ravine, then bent inwards before it became a perpendicular wall to the invisible bottom.
At length, at a point where the roof shelved downwards, he caught a glimpse of a dark form not many yards in advance; it was immediately lost in shadow, then again it was discovered by the torch.
She acknowleged that his nose was good, but his eyes were small, peery, and too close together, and his head shelved backward like an ape's.
Indeed, the letters of Czartoryski prove that such a plan was pressed forward, and found much favour with the Czar, though at the last moment he prudently shelved it.
Low and broken cliffs picturesquely shelved down to the water's edge where a neat embankment now runs, and the balustrades of the old bridge serve their old purpose on this new river-wall.
For centuries this project had been discussed--and shelved in the dusty pigeon-holes of the Admiralty offices.
In the end the proposals were shelved by being referred to the Executive Committee.
Early in the next session another inconvenient motion of a similar kind wasshelved by the previous question; and, finally, Mr. Balfour decided that he could avoid the consequences of a wager of battle by simply refusing to fight.
The first private member's motion on the subject was shelved by the previous question, and the government dealt with the subsequent ones by the novel device, already described, of staying away from the division altogether.
Put yourself in the place of a man of forty who is shelved and knows of no other way of earning his living!
Rude ledges of sombre rock underlay its depths and lined and shelved its sides.
It was a spot where the ground shelved gently down from the grass to the brook; the stream was very shallow and flowed over the sandy bottom with a gentle murmur.
Then the birds began to come down to the drinking-place, where the shore shelved very gently, and the clear shallow water ran over the sandy bottom.
President du Ronceret and an elderly judge, Blondet by name, represented the section of functionaries shelved for good, and resigned to stay where they were; while the young and ambitious party comprised the examining magistrate M.
But few are called to that paradise of the man of law, and nine-tenths of the profession are bound sooner or later to regard themselves as shelved for good in the provinces.
The answer did not come with any eagerness; Christie thought the confession, which had cost her something, was to be shelved as a matter of no interest, and her disappointment showed itself in her face.
Occasionally they consent to be smothered up and shelved aside; at other times they break out and become provokingly noisy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shelved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
