The site of theencampment was matchless in the beauty of its surroundings.
Upon the beach there remained less than a score of tents to mark the encampment of an armed host.
From the latterencampment he forwarded the following despatch, including my son's surveying report.
The neighbourhood of this encampment is one of the prettiest we have seen during the journey.
No one gave any heed to us, and we wandered here and there looking into this house or criticizing another which was but half finished, until we came to where we could see Fort Harmar with the Indian encampment behind it.
Roaming through a dirty Indian encampment was not for a single moment to be compared with the pleasure of making one's way among the huge trees, where game was so abundant that a fellow might pick and choose.
Next morning we crossed the river, and formed an encampment amid the cottonwoods on its bank.
In a few days they arrived and formed a general encampment here, and finally formed a settlement, and surveyed and enclosed another farm of several thousand acres.
They formed anencampment on Sugar Creek, in the State of Iowa.
This encampment was about ten miles below the crossing of the same stream on the old road.
Lucas, of Jackson County mob memory, then commenced their encampment for the night.
Melish at a banquet given in honor of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templars of the United States, by the Templars of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, Pa.
He followed with unerring precision the trail of the fugitives through thorny thicket and quaking morass, and ere the evening sun had dropped behind the hills, he came upon the encampment of his foe.
Every morning the tent was struck, and the encampment of the previous night, however well situated, abandoned without regret.
I was stopping at a wayside inn, half-a-mile on the Windsor road, just opposite which inn there was a great encampment of Gypsies.
There were three detachments and we pushed right into their encampment and set fire to their shelters.
The conduct of the whole force was excellent and, whether on the march or in the encampment ground, they conducted themselves in a most creditable manner.
Smith to proceed to the Indian encampment and ascertain the meaning of this demand authorizing him, if necessary, to arrange for the pitching of the conference tent nearer the Indians, if that would give them any satisfaction.
The escort took up their encampment at a very desirable situation on the edge of the lake, the Indians being encamped at some distance.
After our arrival, the Commissioners caused the Indians to be summoned, to meet them, in a marquee tent adjoining the encampment of the militia.
Mr. Cochrane to proceed to the Indian encampment and state to them that from each band other than the one from which the chief was chosen, a Councillor would have to be taken.
On the 12th the Crees and Saulteaux sent four men from the soldiers tent or council, which they had organized, to ask that the encampment of the militia and the conference tents should be removed half way, towards their encampment.
Mr. McKay's encampment about three miles from the large Indian encampment about half way to Duck Lake, on Monday, the 28th, if they were prepared then to accept the terms of the treaty I had made with the Carlton Indians.
I sent a messenger, Mr. Peter Ballenden, to Duck Lake to inform the Indians that I would meet them at the encampment of the Carlton Crees, about two miles from the fort.
Leaving the Indian encampment I arrived at Fort Carlton, where Mr. Christie, Dr.
At noon a message came from the encampmentof Indians requesting the Rev.
Noticing a large encampment of Indians there, I landed and found they were part of the Moose Lake band.
The encampment consisted of three long lines of tents, one for each company.
Early in the morning came a sound that told all the cadets that the annual encampment was now at hand.
Although there was considerable excitement around the encampment caused by the discovery of the German submarine base, the cadets were not allowed to forego their drilling and their army maneuvers.
The examinations previous to the annual encampment were now close at hand, and all were anxious to make a good showing.
During thisencampment the cadets were given a taste of real military life, with strenuous drills and marches, target and bayonet practice, and usually ending with a thrilling sham battle.
He referred to the annual encampment of the Colby Hall students.
The wind was now blowing half a gale, and the canvases of the encampment were flapping and slapping loudly.
In the present volume the boys are back at Colby Hall, but it is time for the annual encampment of the military school, and soon they depart for a brief season "Under Canvas.
What the boys were going to do after the encampment came to an end, had not yet been decided.
As we approached, men, women, and children poured out of the encampment to look at the strangers, and having satisfied their curiosity, the sports and amusements of the evening were renewed.
We had been perceived by the villagers, and the unexpected arrival of strange horsemen at an Indian encampment always creates great excitement.
Finally, when he parted from the queen, Roberto crossed the encampment directly toward Ruth.
The moment the vans arrived, all the people jumped out, laughing and talking, and the usual preparations for an encampment were begun.
Ruth had lost hope of anybody coming to the encampmentin search of her, for the present.
My soldiers had sought me solely in the path along which they saw me ride out; Verus, who accompanied our army, was the only one who noticed that, after leaving the encampment that morning, I turned eastward.
In the centre of the little encampment were the noble racers, the battle stallions, and the brood mares, confined in a circle made with ropes and lances thrust into the sand.
It was a matter well known to every member of the graduating class that, almost from the day of her arrival during the encampment of the previous summer, Phil Stanley had been a devoted admirer of Miss Nannie McKay.
That summer encampment seems like one long, huge lark," put in Belle Meade.
By degrees, however, the yearling in summer encampment discovers that there is a first class of much older cadets above him.
For just as they got opposite Clovelly dike, the huge old Roman encampment which stands about midway in their journey, they heard a halloo from the valley below, answered by a fainter one far ahead.
The children were trained from infancy to thievish pursuits, and almost every gipsy encampment was a school of practice like that kept by Fagin the Jew, to which poor little Oliver Twist was introduced by the Artful Dodger.
A large gipsy encampment is a rare sight nowadays, and even the gipsy features, owing to frequent intermarriages between the tribes and the European race, are in a fair way of being obliterated.
So he comes down from the stern cloud-encircled peak to that great plain where the encampment lay, and all eyes watch his descent.
We see the bustle of the morning's breaking up of the encampment of Israel.
Wallenstein, on the retreat of Gustavus, had set fire to his own encampment and marched away, burning the villages around Nuremberg and wasting the country as he advanced, with Saxony as his goal.
He sent an insulting order to the ambassadors to follow his encampment and await his pleasure, and paid no further heed to their pacific mission.
The infantry presented a more creditable appearance than any I had yet seen, and the encampment generally looked clean and orderly.
On the night of the 15th we halted in a small encampment about five hours beyond Stolatz, where tents were already pitched for our reception.
But, as we have seen, the Eskimo encampment was deserted, so McBain had to leave it disappointed.
Dell and Joel shook hands with all the Indians, Sargent shared his tobacco with Lone Wolf, and on returning to their encampment at evening, each visitor was burdened with pickled beef and such other staples as the cow-camp afforded.
To add to their surprise, all the dogs in the encampment set up a howling, the Indians came tumbling from their temporary shelters, many of them running for their ponies on picket, while an old, almost naked leader signaled to the brothers.
You now state to me your expectation that they will only reach your present encampment by that date.
Rose and Russ listened very earnestly to what the Indian said, and they urged Cowboy Jack to go to the Indian encampment and see what it meant.
At the other side was the encampmentof Black Bear and his people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encampment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bivouac; camp; encampment; lines; settlement
