Sentence examples for sheltered corner from inspiring English sources

That was our only hairy moment, though, and we soon caught up with the others, in a sheltered corner of the marina.

Well, it could if it somehow demonstrated that conscious deliberation and rational self-control did not really exist or that they worked in a sheltered corner of the brain that has no influence on our actions.

Inside it is both lovely and functional, with a number of features – especially the wooden floors and a wrought-iron spiral staircase – using recycled materials, and outside there is a remarkably sheltered corner facing the enormous view.

Beschornaria yuccoides, a member of the agave family, has gray-green sword-shaped leaves that can grow four or five feet; the plant is hardy to 28 degrees, and might survive the winter in a sheltered corner.

In a sheltered corner of one of the greatest megacities on Earth, there is a place where lizards careen around tree trunks, butterflies drink nectar from vermillion flowers and hummingbirds whisk the heavy air with their wings.

In a sheltered corner, beside an old stone wall, with a plain headstone made of Kilkenny limestone mottled by raindrops, it is unassuming, modest, engraved with a few words: "Walk on air against your better judgement," from his poem The Gravel Walks.

Small, harmless scorpions have always sheltered in the dark corners of Tbilisi's old wooden houses, along with what Ms. Khardziani described as "a lot of other very interesting invertebrates," occasionally appearing in public and producing a brief panic.

After sheltering in a corner for 20 minutes, he emerged to find the neighbourhood transformed into a wasteland.

Entered from the block's southwest corner and uncannily sheltered by the underbelly of the elevated skyscraper ten stories overhead, it was a consequence of the city's "plaza bonus" zoning, which allowed developers to build higher in exchange for incorporating public space into their property.

In Our Friends, the Enemy, James Boyce recalls, "Tucked away from the war in a quiet corner of France, sheltered by trees and covered in frost, thick twigs tied together to form small crucifixes lunge out from the fluffy snow.

Freeze and flee also characterized the response of social (Gunther's) voles (Microtus socialis guntherei) to playback of recorded owl calls [ 1, 27]: some voles decreased activity and hid in an accessible shelter or corner (freezing) whereas other voles increased activity, running frenetically in the apparatus (fleeing).