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Shelterless   Listen
adjective
Shelterless  adj.  Destitute of shelter or protection. "Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shelterless" Quotes from Famous Books



... to think of her going out into the darkness of the night, friendless and shelterless, knowing how well his master had loved her, and how worthy ...
— Dainty's Cruel Rivals - The Fatal Birthday • Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

... without was eager and sharp; Of Sir Launfal's gray hair it makes a harp, And rattles and wrings The icy strings, Singing in dreary monotone A Christmas carol of its own, Whose burden still, as he might guess, Was "Shelterless, ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman

... herself; that she should take in, and cherish this poor little stray girl without inquiry, without hope, or thought of reward. At Madelon, happy, successful, contented, Jeanne-Marie would not have looked a second time; but for Madelon, forsaken, shelterless, dependent on her, she would have been ready almost to ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter

... love there is a self-sustaining strength by which it lives, deprived of everything, as there are plants that live upon our barren ruins burned by the sun, and parched and shelterless, yet ever lifting green ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida



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