But, when they came to their train, they found every one silent and dejected: the men discovered shame and fear in their countenances, and the women were weeping in the tents.
Pekuah descended to the tents, and the rest entered the pyramid: they passed through the galleries, surveyed the vaults of marble, and examined the chest, in which the body of the founder is supposed to have been reposited.
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.
Fires surrounded by groups of happy human beings were burning in front of the tents, and many a beast was slain, here as a thank-offering, yonder for the festal supper.
We must make a night of it, boys; if the tents are to be struck before daylight it will be mighty little use your turning in.
The men snatched their muskets from the piles in front of the tents, and in a wonderfully short time the whole were formed up in their ranks, stiff and immovable.
That night orders were issued for the tents of the division to which the Mayo regiment belonged to be struck before daylight, and the troops were to be under arms and ready to march at six o'clock.
The warmth in the tents at lunch-time was so great that we had all the side-flaps up for ventilation, but it is a treat to get warm occasionally, and one can put up with a little stuffy atmosphere now and again for the sake of it.
I portioned out the available ground for the tents, the galley, and other purposes, as every foot was of value.
A couple of overlapping blankets made the door, superseded later by a sack-mouth door cut from one of the tents.
Within five minutes the boats were over the crack and close to the tents.
The Southern Party elected to sleep there before the start, but the supporting party slept outside in the tents, as they considered it warmer.
It was dark by the time we arrived at the tents, and the news immediately spread through the Arab camp that two elephants had been killed.
My name is now Christian, but my name at the first was Graceless; I came of the race of Japheth, whom God will persuade to dwell in the tents of Shem.
They must have come home for shelter and become confused and blinded by the lights in the tents, and the loss of their ground.
The tents are "struck" at six sharp in the morning, and that means that we have to be up at four and breakfast at five.
Our camp "mess" has been started, and we will be very comfortable, I think, with a good soldier cook and Cagey to take care of the tents.
At that time the soldiers come, and, when the bugle sounds, down go the tents, and if anything happens to be left inside, it has to be fished out from underneath the canvas or left there until the tent is folded.
The heat was fierce, too, and made it impossible for us to remain in the tents, so we were obliged, after all, to sit out under the trees until the air had cooled at night sufficiently to chill the mosquitoes.
Sunday morning, and, as usual, all the boys in town came to the lot to see us put up the tents.
Pa said he would go right over and drive them back to the tents.
We were smothered in the tents, for lack of oxygen.
The hour of rest having arrived, each man entered the camp, partook of the supper prepared by Endicott, and went to sleep for the last time under the tents.
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.
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.
Now you can go down again to the tents, not a hen is missing.
The tents, and they who dwelt beneath them, have long since disappeared, and instead we have one of the finest cities that our colonial empire ever produced.
About dark a sallow-faced fellow descended the hill on horseback, and splashing through the pool rode up to the tents.
We took a hasty leave of this flourishing colony, and walking up the rising ground to the tents, found Delorier's fire still glowing brightly.
These men, who were eighteen in number, came with us to the tents, and received such presents as we had for them.
My anxiety for them led me to wander down the bed of the creek, when, to my joy, I found a pond of water within a hundred yards of the tents.
On this occasion, the women and children passed behind the tents, but did not venture to stop.
We had scarcely time to examine it before night closed in upon us, and it was after nine when we returned to the tents.
The men did not come round the tents, but stood in a row at a short distance.
Our men did not keep their lines perfectly; they were curious to see what was in the tents.
The Doctor led the way into one of the tents; he pointed to one of two camp-beds.
The tents seemed to me too few for the numbers of men who were at the camp-fires.
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