Dictionary Entry

sheltering

To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect.

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Common Phrases

under shelteringbehind shelteringthemselves shelteringarms sheltering

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Poetry examples for “sheltering”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Blowing feathered seeds to fall
By the sun-baked, sheltering wall.

While Danny liked the sheltering high grass,
In which he lay upon a clear dry night,

The fisher's drooping skiff
In yonder sheltering bay;
The choughs that call about the shining cliff;

Of leaflet new, and little, wandering spray;
Often, in sheltering brakes,
As one from rest disturb'd in the first hour,

Life stayed on within my soul.
One night in sheltering from the wet
I quite forgot I could forget.

Near at hand,
From under the sheltering trees,
The farmer sees

The melancholy crow--in hurry weaves,
Beneath an ivied tree, his sheltering seat,
Of rushy flags and sedges tied in sheaves,

And pattered on my hat--tis coming nigh!
Let's look about, and find a sheltering place.
The little things around, like you and I,

Less cruel than the savage slaves _40
Who hunt us o'er these sheltering waves.

Whom yet I see, as there you sit
Beneath your sheltering garden tree,
And watch your doves about you flit