rock shelter

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Only one race, however, that named after the rock-shelter of Crô-Magnon in the Dordogne, is represented by a fair number of specimens, namely, about a dozen.

From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney

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

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

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

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