shelter
noun
something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
shelteringly
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a word derived from
shelter.
Example Sentences
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The royal purple of Thy garment died, From Bozrah, is spread over even me, All my unworthiness, my want I hide Under Thy princely vesture shelteringly.
From Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
Shirley’s arm lay shelteringly about the small shoulders as if it would stay the passion of grief that from time to time shook them.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
"I am too old for Keats," he said in a half-whisper to the leafy branches that bowed their weight of soft green shelteringly over him.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
These very arms that had held her so shelteringly had been lifted in supplication to the idols, and the lips, whose kiss she had awaited, would swear to love her, by an image.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
Unable to speak she mutely held out Douglass's letter and the mother, comprehending, took her shelteringly to her bosom while she read it.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
