Sentence example with the word 'bivouacking'

bivouacking

Definition n. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

Last update: July 19, 2015


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But since Napoleon introduced the "war of masses" the only alternative to cantoning the troops is bivouacking, which if prolonged for several nights is more injurious to the well-being of the troops than the slight relaxation of discipline necessitated by the cantonment system, when the latter is well arranged and policed.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER IX The fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge of the forest.   [Please select]

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Major Tempe in consequence determined, as the weather was fine, upon bivouacking in the open air.   [Please select]

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Indians were arriving from all directions, bivouacking close up against the church.   [Please select]

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They were bivouacking.   [Please select]

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Sleeping soldiers, without a gaiter-button lacking, bivouacking on the ground amid stacked arms whose bayonets would prick; above them in the heavens the clash of contending ghostly armies--wraiths born of the sleepers' dreams.   [Please select]

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The little near-by chapel, with its antique baptismal font, was built by the Conqueror himself, and shows how limited were the means he had at his command when bivouacking in the "Athens of Mexico."   [Please select]

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