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Definition of Sheltering
1. shelter [v] - See also: shelter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheltering
Literary usage of Sheltering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"New York, bequests to Home for Incurables at Fordham and the sheltering Arms,
each $5000; Institution for Relief of Respectable Aged and Indigent Females, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... pursued his family because of their Roman sympathies; his brother, Henry Donne,
was arrested for sheltering a proselyting priest, William Harrington. ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Each straggling felon down was hewed, Not one could gain the sheltering wood;
But forth the affrighted harper sprung, And to Matilda's robe he clung. ..."
4. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"sheltering from the action of the sun.—Much of the baneful effects of marshes
and fresh surfaces are prevented, especially in temperate latitudes, ..."
5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Or find a sheltering, safe retreat, From prone-descending showers. ... winds t
Shun the fierce storms among the sheltering rocks ; On Death o/R. Dundas. ..."
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