Tents

Examples

• I replied, Never mind the guard, and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When Camargo was reached, we found a city of tents outside the Mexican hamlet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The cords of the tents were of the same colour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Her Ladyship, our old acquaintance, is as much at home at Madras as at Brussels in the cantonment as under the tents. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As we lay in our tents upon the sea-shore, the artillery at the fort on the Rio Grande could be distinctly heard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is not even certain that they had tents or huts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Confederate assaults were made with such a disregard of losses on their own side that our line of tents soon fell into their hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The park was speckled by tents, whose flaunting colours and gaudy flags, waving in the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We got so far ahead of the tents that we had to camp in an Arab village, and sleep on the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At first, officers and men occupied ordinary tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They may have had simple skin tents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Expecting to be back in their tents by that time and to be engaged in battle while out, they took with them neither overcoats nor blankets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• General Hurlbut was in command there at the time and had his headquarters tents pitched on the lawn of a very commodious country house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were also hospital tents on shore on the island of Flamingo, which stands in the bay. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They lived in tents and wagons rather than houses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As summer wore away, and cool days and colder nights came upon us, the tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After they had started, the tents and cooking utensils had to be made into packages, so that they could be lashed to the backs of the mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As I called for a second cup of coffee, I glanced over my shoulder, and behold our white village was gone--the splendid tents had vanished like magic! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were a horde of nomadic horsemen living in tents, and subsisting mainly upon mare's milk products and meat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Troops could scarcely find dry ground on which to pitch their tents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They do not shelter the horses in the tents, either--they must stay out and take the weather as it comes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The moment the camp was reached our men laid down their arms and commenced rummaging the tents to pick up trophies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The dews of Hermon are falling upon us now, and the tents are almost soaked with them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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