His foot struck a covered object when he took a single step away from the protective corner.

However, there are no protective corners.

Quintana slipped from his protective corner and into the protection of an old cast-iron wash-pot that served as a flower box.

He recommends searching the yard for relatively warm micro-climates, near the protective corners of buildings and courtyards or on the leeward side of wind breaks like a row of cedars or a hedge.

In a spectacular bit of chance, a tall maple nearby, sheltered as it was by a protective corner in the rock wall, was not yet denuded, but displayed a wide spread of leaves so orange they looked tangy against the powder blue sky above.