While "bivouacking" a little behind this hill the enemy's skirmishers a little after dark made quite a determined onset on our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade,] Reference

Vietnamese army bivouacking area with a broken arm and leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rittichier, Jack C.] Reference

He found bivouacking was not suitable to the character of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

The fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge of the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

I am writing this in the woods, where we are bivouacking for the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

While bivouacking on the Hiawasse, a citizen named Trotter, came into camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

There could be descried piles of guns, moving bayonets, and troops bivouacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Hard by, on either hand, there was solid and most passable ground for bivouacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

The troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

During this day they contented themselves with bivouacking there on the beach at the harbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

It was a very wet evening, and my men who were bivouacking with no tents had a bad time of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference

The sepoys had succeeded in crossing the river and were bivouacking immediately in front of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Beyond all, another 2 miles off, was the camel corps bivouacking by the rocks and foothills of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

Shelled the rebels out of the woods in which we are now bivouacking, and picked up a few prisoners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to the village and had already been sent for.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

The bells had been rung in Vitoria, bells that carried the message to all the troops bivouacking on the plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Honour]

He had thought the South Essex to be bivouacking on the gentle slope that faced him but it was black and empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

General Kent reported in person to Major-General Wheeler, the troops bivouacking for the night near the landing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference

I have marked them at night, when arrived at their journey's end, and bivouacking in the midst of their animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

A self-styled militia of 15 to 20 men patrolled outside the house, bivouacking in two tents in a neighbor's yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cashing In On Little Elián] Reference

The army has been marching almost constantly for two months, and bivouacking at night with an insufficiency of clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

The tents, and the men wrapped in their blankets and bivouacking on skins in the open air, surrounded the baggage at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

Moving forward on that day to Vaulx-Vraucourt, it attacked at dawn on the 3rd and reached Morchies, bivouacking near Doignes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference

Nineteenth Connecticut Volunteers reached the capital, and the next day moved into the hostile state of Virginia, bivouacking near.    From Wordnik.com.  [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference

“And I should like to know who so stupidly risked the lives of these fine warriors by bivouacking in a place that invites ambush.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irda]

The fact was that a flock of geese had got out into the road, and they presented an appearance to the advanced guard of troops bivouacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference

We moved at eight o'clock this morning, over a very bad dirt road, from Wilson's pike to the Nolansville road, where we are now bivouacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

On the morning of July 26, 1890, the sun rose upon thousands of stern-looking men bivouacking in the streets and public squares of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

After parting with my cadet friends at Hanover Junction, soon after day-dawn, I readily found our battery bivouacking in sight of the station.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference

At night a tremendous downpour of rain descended and saturated the troops, who were bivouacking where they were, some 4000 yards in front of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

I seized my dress-coat which was beside me, threw it over my shoulders, twisted my white cravat round my neck, and, like a soldier bivouacking, I sought a comfortable position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

You look as if you had been bivouacking last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minna Von Barnhelm] Reference

We remained here, bivouacking in the woods, until the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference

Adda, the Austrians were already bivouacking on the flank of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference

You'll be parachuting into Iceland and bivouacking in the crispy pancake section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crave at CNET UK] Reference

Almost all people in different parts of the world have their own peculiar methods of bivouacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions] Reference

Hunter's men had been bivouacking for some days past in the vicinity of Monocacy Junction and Frederick, but before General.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete] Reference

The following night was chill and rainy; and the Union forces, bivouacking on shore, grumbled loudly over their discomforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference