He could see and study in detail the deepest-buried, most heavily shielded parts of the atomic engines of the Chicago.
Behind him were the targeteers, and his front faced the shielded phalanx of Chalcaspides.
Was it that they had needed, must have, the force which dwells within love, within willing sacrifice, to strengthen their own power and to enable them to destroy the evil, glorious Thing so long shielded by their own love?
But his eyes were quickly back again upon the man, who with his tablecloth-shielded arm was creeping cat-like up to him.
From an attic window high up in a small and dirty hotel facing the Cathedral Square, and well shielded by the faded and torn curtains, a man had sat for days watching the animated scenes beneath him.
I have to encounter in the discussion of this question; errors and prejudices the more formidable, as they come recommended by the virtues, and shielded by the estimable motives of those who indulged them.
Why has the gentleman shielded British instigation of their outrages?
You did not call me coward when I shielded you in battle," replied the earl; but for this reminder he lost his head.
All that he could do he had done, he had shielded her body with his own, it must have been over his lifeless body that they had taken her.
A few yards farther, though, and the probing beam of his flashlight revealed a terminus where some of the shielded fiber optics had been shunted off into the wall, passing through a heavy metal sleeve.
Although trees shielded the base of the mountain, the top had been cleared and flattened to accommodate the battery of antennas.
Peretz felt himself flung against the bulletproof bubble thatshielded the weapons station.
In the meantime, as the nation's wards, they should be promptly defended against the cupidity of designing men andshielded from every influence or temptation that retards their advancement.
The United States should never be unmindful of the gratitude they owe the God of Nations for His watchful care, which has shielded them from dire disaster and pointed out to them the way of peace and happiness.
Ripton looked very much like a rogue on the tremble of detection, but his honest hunger and the partridge-pie shielded him awhile from Adrian's scrutinizing glance.
So let her also be shielded from the ban of ridicule.
Her bound arms, dragged upwards before it, had shielded it from the thorns and the sharp stones.
Python, having the crown shielded to behind the eyes.
Its crown is more shielded than is usual with Snakes of this family, and it varies much in colouring.
Gray refers to his grand series of Shielded Reptiles (Cataphracta).
This is the second order of the great section of Scaly Reptiles (Squamata), as distinguished from the Shielded Reptiles (Cataphracta).
She loved that child and shielded her from the consequences of killing Lady Rachel.
Thus shielded with caution, he bore his prosperity with surprising temperance; everybody was charmed with his affability and moderation.
Ulysses stood gazing in admiration, unobserved himself, for the cloud which Minerva spread around him still shielded him.
By keeping close to God, and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world, we may stay his blighting touch from personal contact; but there seems to be no absolute safety until we areshielded by the "whole armour of God.
We do not believe the Enemy has abandoned his old profession: an evil spirit despises a disembodied state; if people are fortified and shielded against his entrance--then the swine.
Gracie, shielded by the distance, turned on her stool and studied him.
Could it be possible that this carefully-shielded young girl was caught in the toils of a man whom he believed to be an unprincipled villain?
Mr. Ried had his umbrella raised, and carefully shielded the bonnet, assisting its wearer to enter the carriage with as much courtesy as he had bestowed on Gracie Dennis but a few moments before.
Thus the brain and cord are directly shielded by bones, by membranes, and by the liquid which surrounds them.
He should be shielded from the poisoning effects of tea, coffee, tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
The ground here, shielded from the direct rays of the sun, felt almost cool by contrast.
Walking at first, then crawling when the dunes no longer shielded them, they crept up on the Disan keep.
There were no moving blips on it, not the characteristic shape of a shielded atomic generator.
A badly shielded bomb, or an old one with a crack in the skin, could give a trace like that.
Austin lighted a match, shielded it from the rain with his hand, and looked at his watch; it was just past midnight.
I want you always to feel safe and shielded with me.
Was he desirous of seeing the great diamond she thus unconsciously (or was it consciously) shielded from his gaze?
But the tray, as he held it, shielded her breast from view, and when he lowered it to strike his blow, he thought of nothing but aiming so truly as to need no second blow.
And in his last act he had shouldered it all on himself, had shieldedher nobly from the penalty, had opened wide for her the only door of escape.
They were in fact shielded from view as he bowed, one with the thumb tucked in the corner of his trousers pocket, the other behind his back.
