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Sentences starting with tents

Tents were struck, asses and ox-carts laden, steeds curried and newly-shod, chariots washed, weapons and harnesses cleaned, breakfast was distributed and eaten. [10]

Sentences ending with tents

He listened silently, without the quiver of an eye-lash, or a word of questioning, until his men had pitched their tents. [10]
Which is another way of saying, that between us and the front door of our happy homes there are rattlesnakes that can sting--Nahoum's arm is long, and his traitors are crawling under the canvas of our tents! [11]
Even Ledscha glanced very rarely toward the tents. [10]
Upon this plateau Valmond had pitched his tents. [11]
As early as the 7th of March, and in bad weather, too, meetings began to be held in tents. [10]
He had just seized an oar when Mastor, who had been desired by the Emperor to seek him, recognized him in the moonlight and desired him to return with him to the tents. [10]
As a sort of try in a back-water we rowed over one night to an island and pitched tents. [11]
Katuti had kept her unfortunate nephew Paaker concealed in one of her servants' tents. [10]
With straining ears he listened to the sounds from the north, as if suspecting how nearly he was affected by the broken cries and moans borne by the wind from the tents. [10]
Soon after he had gone, there was a noise of tramping about the tent, and then a suppressed cheer, which was fiercely stopped by Parpon, and the soldiers of the Household Troops scattered to their tents. [11]

More example sentences with the word tents in them

The lepers in Zoan, Pha-kos and Phibeseth followed the others at a certain distance, and their tents are pitched outside the camp. [10]
But mark the words of the prophecy: 'He shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. [5]
I shelled the woods in which they were, and they in return threw a large number of shells into the lines and tents from which I moved last night to take up a stronger position. [7]
He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
This was a wide, wide track--for the humble followers of the camp of wealth pitch their tents round about it for many a mile--but its character was still the same. [12]
The white mounds which had risen there had been recognized as tents, even from the Serpent Island. [10]
But the tents were pitched, and at that moment the young Captain was seen to hand over his horse to an orderly, and to come toward them. [9]
The travellers' tents were pitched one sultry evening in November, between the Nile and the limestone range, in which was arrayed a long row of tombs of the period of the Pharaohs. [10]
The use of water-dressings in surgery completed the series of reforms by which was abolished the "coarse and cruel practice" of the older surgeons, who with their dressings and acrid balsams, their tents and leaden tubes, "absolutely delayed the cure. [3]
When the battle was over, the Persians returned in triumph to their tents, to be warmly welcomed by Croesus and the warriors and priests who had remained behind, and to celebrate their victory by prayers and sacrifices. [10]
And through the varying waste of elements There passed a sail, which caught the opposing wind, Triumphant, as an army in its tents Beholds the foe it, conquering, left behind. [11]
It was the tramp of a single steed, and must be a new arrival; for there were loud voices in the tents, the dogs barked, and shouts, questions, and answers came nearer and nearer with the rider. [10]
He did not think of Daphne again until he was approaching the place where her tents had stood, and the remembrance of her fell like a ray of light into his darkened soul. [10]
So I pitched the tents, picketed the animals, milked the cows, had supper, paregoricked the men, established the watch, and went to bed--with orders to call me as soon as we came in sight of Zermatt. [5]
The largest of the tents, in front of which Roman sentinels paced up and down, two and two, on guard, was wide open on the side towards the sea. [10]
They were pitching the tents, a work of peace, for which no one needed him. [10]
The men pitched the tents with some little show of cheerfulness, and we were snugly under cover when the night shut down. [5]
The wind from the sea drove the clouds before it across the sky, and the plain covered with tents resembled a sea tossed into high white waves. [10]
The tents of the populace were only divided from the pavilion of the Pharaoh by the hastily-constructed garden in the midst of which it stood, and the hedge which enclosed it. [10]
Between it and the main mass of the mountain rose numerous single peaks, like a camp of granite tents, or a wildly tossing sea suddenly turned to stone; behind these blocks ran the streamlet, which he found after a short search. [10]
And when for the last time they pitched their tents, metaphorically speaking, it was at the goal of their hopes, their new home. [5]
Think what tents the hollyhocks and the great lilies spread for him! [6]
High above, on the flat promontory between the two rivers, is the city of tents and wooden huts, the great trees in their fresh faint green towering above the low roofs. [9]
Away off on the edge of the sand, in a soft pinky light, we see three little sharp roofs like tents, and Tom says: "It's the pyramids of Egypt. [5]
They shall guard the camp tomorrow; they will be equal to that when it is made clear to their understanding that, if they let the tents be taken, the bread, meat and wines-skins will also fall into the hands of the enemy. [10]
This was called the Big Bone Lick, and some travellers that went before us had made their tents with the thighs of these monsters of a past age. [9]
The populace hailed the announcement that tents would be erected for the sick in the desert, with applause from a thousand voices. [10]
We pitched our tents, supped, established a proper grade, recorded the events of the day, and then went to bed. [5]
A half dozen tents were pitched under the trees, horses and oxen were corraled at a little distance, and a group of men sat on camp stools or lay on blankets about a bright fire. [5]
Two of the tents were down, and the third in a collapsed condition, while confusion reigned supreme. [9]
Have some large tents pitched in the Necropolis, and all who fall sick of the pestilence removed there at the expense of the city and tended under their shade. [10]
There were closed tents in which magical remedies were to be obtained, though their open sale was forbidden by the authorities, from love-philters to the wondrous fluid which, if rightly applied, would turn lead, copper, or silver to gold. [10]
Ballarat was a swarming city of tents in the early days. [5]
And the Four, surprising as it may seem, made themselves generally useful about the camp in pitching the tents under Farrar's supervision. [9]
We did not stir till all twenty-four were safe; then we made a dash for the tents of Lancy, which now showed in the first gray light of morning. [11]
Prince Andrew's bearers, stepping over the wounded who had not yet been bandaged, took him, as a regimental commander, close up to one of the tents and there stopped, awaiting instructions. [2]
A company of soldiers from Richmond had pitched its tents near the hotel, and in the evening the ball-room was enlivened with uniforms. [4]
Ani ordered a small party of the watch to go and seek out the priest Pentaur in the tents of the wounded by the harbor, to bring the poet quietly to his tent, and to guard him there till his return. [10]
The tents lay silent in the moonshine, but wayward lights flickered in the sumptuous dusk, and the quiet of the hills hung like a canopy over the bivouac of the little army. [11]
They do not shelter the horses in the tents, either--they must stay out and take the weather as it comes. [5]
On his account she constantly returned to the northern part of the camp which adjoined the road coming from Tanis and where now, at Moses' bidding, the tents of most of the men capable of bearing arms were pitched. [10]
The market was set up beyond the Alphaeus, and there traders from all parts of the world were to be seen; Greeks, Carthaginians, Lydians, Phrygians and shrewd Phoenicians from Palestine settled weighty business transactions, or offered their goods to the public from tents and booths. [10]
Several poorly-clad ones sat before the tents, mending the soldiers' clothes. [10]
After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. [5]
Other soldiers were quartered in tents close to the walls of the palace itself. [10]
They ordered the prisoners to move aside and defer their march until the swifter baggage train, bearing Pharaoh's tents and travelling equipments, whose chariot wheels could already be heard, had passed them. [10]
My client had planned a trip to Bear Island for the following Tuesday, which was to last a week, the party to bring tents with them and rough it, with the Maria as headquarters. [9]
When they had pitched upon a site for the fort, every man set to work, some to build the fort, others to pitch the tents, fell trees and make clapboards to reload the ships, others to make gardens and nets. [4]
The village of Pihahiroth was soon gained, and while dashing by it without pausing, he noticed that its huts and tents were deserted by men and cattle. [10]
The commandant of Pelusium had therefore placed a small garrison of heavily armed soldiers and archers in Tennis, for whom tents had been pitched on the site of the burned white house. [10]
Around the tents, over more than five acres, bloodstained men in various garbs stood, sat, or lay. [2]
There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. [5]
I have friends on the Far Off River who show me the yards where the musk-ox gather; I have found the gardens of the young sable, and my tents are full of store. [11]
But the skeletons of the pyramid tents alone remained. [9]
There were scores of tents, horses, and many Indians and half-breeds, and a few white men. [11]
Of the hundreds of tents which till lately had covered it, only those of the seventh cohort of the praetorian guard remained; for these, having to protect the person of the emperor, had not been quartered in the town. [10]
A semicircular building of new construction adjoining the old palace was the theatre, and many large tents for the bodyguard, for ambassadors and scribes, as well as others, serving as banqueting-halls for the various court-officials, stood both within the garden and outside its enclosing walls. [10]
I did not observe, though I might have seen from where I lay, the flap of one of the tents drawn back and two figures emerge. [9]
But, turning on my homely bed, I looked up and saw the deep quiet of the skies, the stable peace of the stars, and I was a son of the good Earth again, a sojourner in the tents of Home. [11]
They had just made up their minds to this inevitable waste of time, when a young woman was seen coming toward them from one of the tents with a swift, light step, winged with gladness. [10]
Before they reached it the equipage passed the sumptuous tents which had been erected for the royal pair and their attendants. [10]
On nearly every island there was at least a cottage, and on the larger islands were great hotels, camp-meeting establishments, and houses and tents for the entertainment of thousands of people. [4]
We shall be in the saddle three weeks--we have horses, tents, provisions, arms, a dragoman and two other servants, and we pay five dollars a day apiece, in gold. [5]
The tents were in a circle, surrounding a clear space of ground, and the chief halted in the middle of this. [11]
The boat lies idly by the shore, The shed I built with happy care Is fallen; and I see no more The white tents in the eager air. [11]
It is wonderful how the pitching of a few tents, and the busy crackle of a few fires, and the sound of voices--sometimes merry, sometimes sad, depending on the weather, will change the look of a lonely pine knoll. [9]
The "dews of Hermon" are falling upon us now, and the tents are almost soaked with them. [5]
Without even vouchsafing Hanno another glance, Ledscha glided forward in the shadow of the bushes to the great sycamore, whose thick, broad top on the side toward the tents was striped with light from the flood of radiance streaming from them. [10]
The party who had arrived by water were not allowed to occupy the tents which had been pitched for them not far from his, because he desired to be alone, quite alone, with his anguish of spirit. [10]
Now you can go down again to the tents, not a hen is missing. [10]
At last he gained the tents and pinfolds of his people, not a few of which had also been overthrown, and asked the first acquaintances he met for Nun, the father of his dead mother and of Joshua. [10]
He has sent for one hundred tents, and, if all go to the hills who are in motion now, two hundred will be required. [5]
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! [5]
Into Lindell Grove flocked the crowd, the rich and the poor, the proprietor and the salesmen, to watch the soldiers pitch their tents under the spreading trees. [9]
Five hundred will find their way into the citadel, with the priests and other visitors to congratulate you on your birthday, the other two thousand will remain concealed in the tents. [10]
Here, too, Hermon felt himself the most distinguished person, the animating and attracting power, until it was said that the voyage was over, and the company pitched their tents in the famous oasis near the Temple of Amon. [10]
One of his father's fine ships would convey them to Paraetonium, where tents, saddle horses, and guides for the short land journey would be ready. [10]
We got so far ahead of the tents that we had to camp in an Arab village, and sleep on the ground. [5]
The storm kept every one within the tents whom duty did not summon into the open air, and Ephraim had less reason to fear discovery on account of the deep shadow that rested on the spot where he lay. [10]
Then, turning to Ephraim, he told him that Hosea and his men would encamp outside of the city, pitching their tents, on account of the pestilence, between Tanis and the sea. [10]
Whoever had formerly entered, between midnight and morning, the humble frontier hamlet with its shepherd tents, wretched hovels of Nile mud, and by no means handsome farms and dwellings, would scarcely have recognized it now. [10]
The hot and dusty desert wind, which the day before had swept over the parched grass and the tents and houses of Succoth, had subsided at nightfall; and the cool atmosphere which in March, even in Egypt, precedes the approach of dawn, made itself felt. [10]
At first he did not listen; but presently the organist was heard alone, and then the choir afterwards sang: "Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: And to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar. [11]
The army was demoralized, clamoring in vain for pay, and deserting by companies and regiments; one-third of the men were without tents, one-fourth of them were on the sick list. [4]
On a long curved spit between the rivers, towns of tents were visible, with a multitude of fluttering pennons, and a mighty swarm of pilgrims. [5]
The dressing station consisted of three tents with flaps turned back, pitched at the edge of a birch wood. [2]
Each is a city of small houses, and each is teeming with life, but Ocean Grove, whose centre is the camp-meeting tabernacle, lodges its devotees in tents as well as cottages, and copies the architecture of Oak Bluffs. [4]
The spectators occupy chairs on the platform in front of the bath-houses, or sit under tents erected on the smooth sand. [4]
Presently all the canoes were got to land, and without any hostile sign the Indians filed out on the centre of the plateau, where were pitched a number of tents. [11]
He ordered the camp to be broken up and again pitched in a narrower spot on the plain of Rephidim at the northern end of the battle-field, where it would be easier to defend the tents. [10]
Tents, muskets, ammunition came out of dark places, as they are ever sure to come when the war-trumpet sounds. [11]
From the tents came now loud angry cries and now plaintive groans. [2]
No sentry challenged, but I knew that at the top Lancy's tents were set. [11]
The crowds liked best to go to Compton Heights, where the tents of the German citizen-soldiers were spread out like so many slices of white cake on the green beside the city's reservoir. [9]
Here, behind and beside the frames of the cloth weavers, stood the tents before which the followers and soldiers of the princes and dignitaries who had come to the Reichstag were still sitting around the camp fire, carousing and laughing. [10]
The tents were being struck and for a long time Miriam vainly sought her husband. [10]
The tents had been shut up all this time. [5]
On the left bank of the stream an encampment of Egyptian soldiers formed a large semicircle, enclosing three large tents made of costly material striped with blue and white, and woven with gold thread. [10]
The wounded men awaiting their turn outside the tents groaned, sighed, wept, screamed, swore, or asked for vodka. [2]
As late as August, at the time, of our visit, a hundred people were camped in tents on the Marjorie, wiling the salmon with the delusive fly, and leading him to death with a hook in his nose. [4]

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