rock shelter

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That the upper story took its name from the rock-shelter may be further illustrated.

From A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Cushing, Frank Hamilton

I also passed a rock-shelter, which served as a permanent home.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

The rock-shelter and the cave are the homes which men seek from the advancing cold.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

Then he hunts himself out a hollow tree or rock-shelter, curls himself up quietly to sleep, and snores away the whole livelong winter.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

Isak had a hard time, with cold at nights, for a while; he tried burying himself in the hay under the rock-shelter, tried to bed down for himself with the cows.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut