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Example sentences for "camp fire"

  • Supports for Camp-Fire Utensils The sketch shows how to make a standard or support to hold cooking utensils over a camp fire.

  • The site should be high and dry, level enough for the tent and camp fire, and with surrounding ground sloping enough to insure proper drainage.

  • Division of Work Clear the selected spot and lay out the lines for the tent, camp fire, etc.

  • Camp Fires There is no better way to make a camp fire than to have a large log or two against which to start a fire with small boughs.

  • I always think of good stories and plenty to eat when I see a camp fire," came from Giant.

  • They trudged on, and presently came to where somebody had had a camp fire.

  • It was impossible to light a camp fire, and so they had to eat a cold supper of such things as chanced to be handy.

  • Here they stopped at a spot well known to them and built a camp fire, and here they roasted all of the game, fearing it might not keep in such hot weather.

  • I have frequently killed six or eight weekas in a single evening at my camp fire.

  • When living in the forest I have frequently amused myself killing these birds in the following manner, while sitting at my camp fire at night.

  • My dear Aunt Patricia, really I beg your pardon, but I supposed you were coming with me to France to help me chaperon my Camp Fire girls!

  • I have not confided this fact to any one before, but sometimes I have been so nervous over the prospect of looking after my group of Camp Fire girls in France that I have wanted to run away and hide where no one could ever discover me.

  • Here we've passed two or three beds of brooks all dried up; plenty of water when you don't want it, none when you do; and not a stick of wood to build a camp fire.

  • The last words distinguishable were, "God-forsaken country; no wood for a camp fire.

  • And wood enough for a camp fire," said Ned, laughing.

  • There was a cheerful sound of flapping canvas and vanishing glimpses of a woodland shot with sun-gold, of a camp fire and a pair of dogs romping boisterously.

  • Following a forest path, Philip presently caught the flicker of a camp fire ahead.

  • So excited were the boys with their strange romantic surroundings that the first night they lay down in their beds, thus prepared not far from the camp fire on the rocks, they could hardly sleep.

  • A characteristic story of Sir George Simpson, so long the energetic governor of the company, is still repeated at many a camp fire.

  • You know how much good a Camp Fire would do in Hedgeville, but it would be pretty hard to get one started.

  • You laughed at me when I was made a Camp Fire Guardian, Charlie, but you're going to see now what a fine thing the movement is.

  • Zara made no attempt to keep away from her; seemed anxious, indeed, to be with her chum, that they might talk over their plans for winning enough honors as Camp Fire Girls to become Fire-Makers.

  • Quite late that night General Jackson came to my camp fire, where he stayed some hours.

  • Sitting by my camp fire to await the movement of Churchill's column, I was saddened by recollection of the many dead, and the pleasure of victory was turned to grief as I counted the fearful cost at which it had been won.

  • I used to fancy that there was a mute sympathy between General Jackson and Tom, as they sat silent by a camp fire, the latter respectfully withdrawn; and an incident here at Strasburg cemented this friendship.

  • Late in the night Jackson came out of the darkness and seated himself by my camp fire.

  • But I want to find out by living the Camp Fire idea, I want to see what we could get out of forming a Camp Fire Club, the first one here in Woodford.

  • Just to live among the trees and the stars and hear the birds sing, and tell stories about our own camp fire and to sing.

  • Will you, won't you, will you, won't you be a Camp Fire Girl?

  • Now if I had only been a Camp Fire girl in the West instead of the East, doubtless I could at once discover all sorts of delectable bread fruit and berries growing nearby.

  • Yet she had no more thought of its oddity and the attention that she might create than if she had been a Camp Fire girl in the New Hampshire woods nearly fifteen years before.

  • Talk of college friendships, surely they are not to be compared with those of Camp Fire clubs!

  • Curious that Rose Barton, who had been such a sensible guardian and friend to her group of Camp Fire girls, had been so indulgent to her adopted daughter!

  • The guide gazed in that direction and replied: "Yes, but it comes from a camp fire, which isn't more than a half mile away.

  • It would have been the height of rashness to start a camp fire, for all the figures within its circle of illumination must have formed the best of targets for their stealthy foes.

  • Ike found a place among the rocks, where a camp fire couldn't be seen for more than a few rods and started a blaze.

  • The red man pointed towards the camp fire, thereby meaning that his captive should walk in that direction.

  • I have told you what befell Will and George Burton when they made their attempt to find out who had kindled the camp fire in the valley below the ridge on which they halted.

  • Moccasins can be stuffed with dry browse of any kind or inverted over stakes driven in the ground not too near the camp fire.

  • The lakes and streams of the outdoors abound with fish which when caught in the icy water and cooked over a camp fire in the open makes a welcome addition to the hiker’s bill of fare.

  • With this very acceptable breadstuffs can be coaxed out of camp fire heat, dough and the frying pan.

  • Not yet; they wouldn't be likely to kindle a camp fire at this time of day, and afore they jined the others.

  • The hunter was within a hundred yards or so of the clump of trees, when he suddenly checked his mustang, or rather the mustang checked himself, at the light of a camp fire, which all at once flashed out from among them.

  • It's the smoke from a camp fire and I've got to go right by it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camp fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also told; camp equipage; camp fire; camp here; camp life; camp meeting; camp near; campaign against; camping trip; chocolate cake; day and ceased saying her permitted; defend herself; eight times; first course; industrial pollution; left home; light brown; looking after; maternal love; mile front; outdoor life; rural life; state appointed; thought best; thousand years; three hundred thousand men