rock shelter

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My rock-shelter is hedged about with prickly thorns and thistles….

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum

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)

A human parietal with a piece missing that had evidently been taken out, was found beneath the rock-shelter of Entre-Roches near Angouleme.

From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.