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SHELTERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protected from danger or bad weather
Example:
a sheltered harbor
Classified under:
Similar:
invulnerable (immune to attack; impregnable)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb shelter
Context examples:
No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
We both desired to have her stranded safe enough, in a sheltered place, and so that, when the time came, she could be got off again with as little labour and danger as might be; and until that was done I considered that my life would certainly be spared.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight—and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Many were the inquiries she was eager to make of Miss Tilney; but so active were her thoughts, that when these inquiries were answered, she was hardly more assured than before, of Northanger Abbey having been a richly endowed convent at the time of the Reformation, of its having fallen into the hands of an ancestor of the Tilneys on its dissolution, of a large portion of the ancient building still making a part of the present dwelling although the rest was decayed, or of its standing low in a valley, sheltered from the north and east by rising woods of oak.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The quaint old garden had sheltered many pairs of lovers, and seemed expressly made for them, so sunny and secluded was it, with nothing but the tower to overlook them, and the wide lake to carry away the echo of their words, as it rippled by below.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
No high backbone of island sheltered us from the wind, and it whistled and bellowed about the hut till at times I feared for the strength of the walls.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He thanked God that she had been born and sheltered to such innocence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A small but well-kept house in the outskirts of the town sheltered the bereaved mother.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
