Sentence examples for i was sheltering from inspiring English sources
I had read the story of the eventual successful rescue years before, when I was sheltering from a storm in a Scots-built farmhouse in southern Patagonia: it had been a tale that kept me up all through a howling night, and I had promised myself that one day I would get to the Skeleton Coast and find the wreck and Macintyre's grave.
The midday sun was creeping higher into the searing blue African sky last Saturday as I was sheltering under the sweet shade of a baobab tree, wondering what to do with my day at the Lake of Stars festival in Malawi.
"I was sheltered," she says.
"Yes, I was sheltered till I was in my 20s".
"I was sheltered in a weird way," she said.
Her point, anyway, is that "I was sheltered.
At least I was sheltered from public humiliation by the dense quiet of a small village on an August afternoon.
By the time Deeker caught up, I was sheltered under a tree, sopping wet – despite two waterproofs, a jacket and two jerseys – and shaking.
Far into this dense, splendid novel, Aldous Cotton, who has constructed an indelible portrait of his lamentable father, Harry, remarks, As a child I was sheltered from everything except happiness.
I realized I was sheltered from a lot of that pain.
