Shields

/ (ʃiːldz) /

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noun

Carol (Ann). 1935–2003, Canadian novelist and writer, born in the US; her novels include Happenstance (1980), The Stone Diaries (1995), and Unless (2002)

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Words nearby Shields

shield cricket, shield fern, shield law, shield match, Shield of David, Shields, shield-tailed snake, shield volcano, shieling, shier, shiest

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The cap devices on thousands of identical hats glinted in the late morning sun along with the shields worn by each of the cops.
Choking Back Tears, Thousands of Cops Honor Fallen Officer Ramos|Michael Daly|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He used some of the captives as human shields and forced others to hold a black flag with white Arabic writing against the window.
Jihadi Siege in Sydney Ends in Gunfight|Courtney Subramanian, Lennox Samuels, Chris Allbritton|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Riot police eventually converged from the flanks, hundreds at first, then hundreds more, with shields and batons.
Mexican Protesters Look to Start a New Revolution|Jason McGahan|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand.
Carol Shields’s Tale Of Secondhand Life|Nathaniel Rich|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life,” writes Shields elsewhere.
Carol Shields’s Tale Of Secondhand Life|Nathaniel Rich|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In fact—on account of conditions beyond my choice and control—I spent too much time on the wrong side of the hull shields.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.
The Man from Time|Frank Belknap Long
The body shields of the head pass gradually into the dorsal plates.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Shields was eventually defeated and driven down the Shenandoah Valley.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
Jackson then led his remaining forces north of Port Republic and encountered Shields there.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey

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