Sheltering

Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us.

His ships he hides within a sheltering cove, / screened by the caverned rock, and shadowed by the grove, / then wielding in his hand two broad-tipt spears, / alone with brave Achates forth he strayed.

But lo! the serpents to Tritonia's seat / glide from their victim, till the shrine they gain, / and, coiled beside the goddess, at her feet, / behind her sheltering shield with gathered orbs retreat.

Sheltering kids does them a disservice.

Elias was sheltering from the rain under a loquat tree.

We found the horse sheltering from the elements behind a tumbledown shed.

The centipede slithered under the sheltering rock.

She was sheltering from the rain under an olive tree.

I don't want to put you into trouble, but I want you to know that you're free from danger with me, and that I'm sheltering you from any exterior danger that may come your way. I'm taking you under my wings at any time of the day.

More than 800,000 civilians are sheltering in El Fasher, and a full-scale battle could unleash atrocities similar to those of the genocide carried out by Arab Janjaweed fighters against African Zaghawa, Masalit, Fur and other non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur in the early 2000s.