Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Full gladly I take shelter there...
...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...
...coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they had come; she was holding a Chinese sun-umbrella in a position calculated to shelter her fair face from the inquisitive glance of the sun, and trailing her free hand in the wake of the little craft, - a most fascinating performance, on the whole...
...farm-house in which our Crew was quartered the past three years is certainly too cramped, besides being in a very hot situation. It is at some distance from the boat-house, and is devoid of any shade or shelter from trees. In this respect, the Yale crew has the better position. But if a frame house could be built, somewhere near the boat-house on the pine-clad little promontory that juts out into the river, to be the property of the University Boat Club, the fullest requirements of the Crew would be met; for they are undisturbed here...
...following day I volunteered my services as an instructor in swimming, and gave my pupil her first experimental lectures at high tide; while the Yale man, from the shelter of a pile of drift-wood, cast rancorous glances at us and soliloquized in good round New Haven English...