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If women were in the encampment they would be segregated and would prepare the meal, although slaughter and butchery were men's work.
He moves among the students in the encampment checking canteens, to see who has been drinking water.
The sharp crack of their rifles echoes through the humid Georgia night, evoking cries of alarm and warning from the encampment ahead.
We were worried about enemy patrols and the risk of tripping landmines on the trail or on the site of the old encampment.
The Indians implicitly understand, and they escort Cody back to their encampment, where he meets the Comanche chief.
Hence it came to mean a temporary encampment of troops in the field without tents and using only locally available shelter.
Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.
Tents with flysheets of various designs and colours dotted the encampment like wildflowers on a rolling hill.
Climbing its slopes, with a twinge of excitement I spot an encampment of black tents set in the fold of a green glen.
The soldiers have setup a battlefield encampment that sends injured soldiers through a five-step process.
Another origin dates from the time of the Crusaders, who played a game of dice named after their place of encampment, the castle Hasart.
Some of the areas have been turned over to contractors who will construct an encampment for 5,000 soldiers.
Finally, the young warrior came to the clearing in the woods that was their temporary encampment.
The full moon slowly rises, orange-red above the Georgia forest, illuminating a small encampment of tents and camouflage.
In the midst of the night, this encampment in these sparse woods on the edge of Ther'kass was eerily silent.
Each paddle stroke inches you further upstream towards the Abenaki encampment that should lie perhaps a league ahead.
He was transported back to Bayview Station where he was booked on weapons, narcotics, the warrant and illegal encampment charges.
My new school turns out to be a village of Quonset huts-more like a military encampment than a high school.
Together, William and the king, Jonathan, walked through the army encampment.
Settlements were often small, represented archaeologically by stone scatters and traces of a tented encampment.
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This was our most fatiguing day, and we wanted our last encampment to be the best.
If we want to see the encampment, we had better not have anything to do with the fortune-teller.
Yes, and I have come to ask if I may go and reconnoiter the British encampment.
Chief George waited for no second bidding, but began to shamble off across the snow towards his encampment.
We have found out a better site for a settlement than our present encampment, and Gerald and I mean to build a shealing.
The new commander at once proceeded with the army to the Congaree, and formed an encampment near its junction with the Wateree.
They did not find them, till their return, when they discovered a Menomonie encampment on the upper part of the Prairie.
Around its station I saw an enormous encampment of small Russian tarantas, or cars, heavily laden with piles of sacks.
As they approached our encampment they played the jerid with their long spears, galloping to and fro on their well-trained mares.
Before long, another Arab met us with the news that there was an encampment of Druses on the plain between us and katana.
He wondered how much they knew of his part in the raid upon their encampment.
Meanwhile an encampment was made on the Canonbar, a tributary of the bogan.
They had almost got to lying in the sleeping-bags by day, when a Samoyed declared he smelt the smoke of a native encampment.
In the mean time, the main body of the Swedes had been greatly weakened by a tedious encampment before brunn.
Once or twice a stray peasant stumbled on us, and was much surprised at our encampment in so droughty a locality.
And at the time when the Bard stood up to claim the wife, a strange warrior came into the encampment, holding a barbless spear.
The encampment is on the outskirts of a perfectly flat plain, skirted with jungle-clad hills and covered with elephant grass.
The British encampment was formed near the creek, on a piece of open ground flanked on two sides by a canebrake.
He then drew back with the main body of his army toward the Araxes, and concealed his forces in a hidden encampment.
Our encampment was near a beautiful spring, called Bellefontaine, which is visited by the Indians, at some seasons of the year.
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