rock shelter

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The disappearance of the herds caused Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse to leave the rock-shelter.

From The Later Cave-Men by Brown, Howard V.

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

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

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

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.