bivouac

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On Adirondack's lake-encircled crest Old war-paths mark the soil, Where idly bivouacks the summer guest, And peaceful miners toil.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

Eighty-eight gunners and one hundred and thirty mules had dropped out, and not a complete gun of all the six was available. bivouacks on southern edge and awaits dawn.

From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

In the great round central "Place" confusion was worse, animals, carts, and refugee bivouacks being all squashed together on the market place.

From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Gordon, Cora

The appearance of these bivouacks, composed of Cossack squadrons, Hungarian hussars, or Prussian artillery, in the obscurity of moonlight, and surrounded by the gloom of forest scenery, was beyond measure striking.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Alison, Archibald, Sir

All the past, all that had been extinguished by the Cossack bivouacks, and by the stern battle of life, flamed out at once on the surface and drowned the present in its turn.

From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich