sheltered childhood

She led a very sheltered childhood and has no knowledge of men or the outside world.

What a sheltered childhood you must have had.

I think it's because I had a sheltered childhood.

He often described a lonely and sheltered childhood worsened by his obesity.

She'd never had any practice in a loved and sheltered childhood, so she'd never learned how.

She bought me a sheltered childhood with subservience.

She covered it by pretending to have had a sheltered childhood, but in fact Madeleine could not have been the creation of a grown woman.

Daza experienced a sheltered childhood filled with culinary adventures.

He spent what he later called a politically sheltered childhood, attending Anglican and Methodist mission schools.

She said the Sandy character was very similar to her sheltered childhood, growing up in New Zealand with many protective older brothers.

Luce stretched and, having eased her ankle into a more comfortable position, went on, 'Looking back, I had a happy, sheltered childhood.

Van Dyken said she became asthmatic at 18 months and led a sickly and sheltered childhood.

Born in Yonkers, New York, Wells lived a sheltered childhood, and as a boy experienced a desire to become a missionary.

Born in Victoria, Australia to a Baptist preacher as one of twelve children, Harmony had a sheltered childhood, with private education and few friends.

Dorothy Brett and her sister had an extremely sheltered childhood (Dorothy not becoming aware of the facts of life until she was 30 years old).

What my curiosity sought, what dreams, lust and fear created-the great secret of puberty-did not fit at all into my sheltered childhood.

Gen X'ers, growing up amid the family upheaval of the 70's and 80's, may well have missed out on the sheltered childhoods that many boomers enjoyed.

A novel first published in 1951; a brother-sister bond sealed by a sheltered childhood is stressed by World War II.

Seiya has a sister (Rui, who saved him from being sucked into a wormhole), and has had a sheltered childhood.

Sibylle grew up in a sheltered childhood and enjoyed, together with her brothers and sisters, education and teaching through governesses and private tutors.

He was born on November 3, 1927, at the family home Disselhof 36 in Haltern and experienced in his own words, a sheltered childhood until age 11.

Now that a friendly hand had extricated me, I retreated, looking neither to the left nor to the right, but went straight to my mother's lap and the security of a pious, sheltered childhood.

In many ways I am proud to be an Afrikaans-speaking South African, but for most of my sheltered childhood I didn't know there were other people living in my country, too.

She had hardly had a sheltered childhood, calling for men to come and pay to visit her mother's bed, and she had negotiated the tricky intricacies of Clan politics successfully for many years.

She suffers from a condition called "hyper empathy" in which she experiences other people's pleasure and pain as her own; even her relatively sheltered childhood has taught her to expect more pain than pleasure.