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
Grief and the Goat Man peered straight down from a safe rock-shelter, three hundred feet above.
From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack
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
The upper rock-shelter has been dug out or enlarged with a pick.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The disappearance of the herds caused Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse to leave the rock-shelter.
From The Later Cave-Men by Brown, Howard V.
