decamp

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So Fanny Kemble married, and Adelaide Decamp came and lived with us, and was the good angel of our home.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

Both are buried at Addlestone; so is Fanny Kemble's mother, Mrs. Charles Kemble, who as Mademoiselle Decamp had delighted French theatres.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

My mother was the daughter of Captain Decamp, an officer in one of the armies that revolutionary France sent to invade republican Switzerland.

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny

So daylight When shutters are thrown back spreads through a house; As then the dreams and terrors of the night Decamp, so from my mind were driven All its own thoughts and feelings.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean

P. 155, CAMP, 'Leaving the Camp' amended to Decamp.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir