He winked heavily, pulling back the tent-fly, and paused. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
From where he lay, through the open tent-fly, he could see a portion of the windfall barrier which had been the cause of the disaster. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
Her eyes fell upon Hamoud who, sitting on his heels near her chair, was watching her face by the light of the talc-sided lanterns that dangled from the tent-fly. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
We'd come in at sunset from the south, and so saw nothing of the battlefield, but they were burying the dead in scores, and I'd chanced to glance aside through an open tent-fly, and there, wrapped in a cloak, was the body of old Bob Sale. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
Two and sometimes three men would be found wrapped in one blanket, "spoon-fashion," with another blanket stretched above them on four stakes to serve as a tent-fly, and their fires were usually large and well covered with green branches to prevent their burning out too rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
The camp consisted of a tent-fly, extended verandah-like behind the. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
Every man was supposed to have a small tent-fly rolled up behind him. From Wordnik.com. [A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,] Reference
Le Corbier had risen hurriedly from his seat and drawn back the tent-fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontier] Reference
But unfortunately for us, neither Adjutant Griffin nor I possessed a tent-fly. From Wordnik.com. [A soldier's recollections : leaves from the diary of a young Confederate : with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South,] Reference
The last he saw of her was her luminous smile framed against the black background; then she let the tent-fly fall. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
The colonel, his adjutant, and the doctor are curled up under a tent-fly that serves by day as a wrap for the rations and cooking-kit they carry on pack-mule. From Wordnik.com. [From the Ranks] Reference
The balloonist acknowledged these compliments, bowing and looking down over the sea of upturned faces, -- but Hedger was determined she should not see him, and he darted behind the tent-fly. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and the Bright Medusa] Reference
By this time we were fairly tired from long walking in the heat, and so were content to sit down under our tent-fly before our little table, and let Mahomet bring us sparklets and lime juice. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Footprints] Reference
Most of the baggage and tents had been left behind; a tent-fly was the shelter for brigade and division headquarters; but the food, consisting of meat, bread, coffee and sugar, was abundant and of good quality. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IX] Reference
When we came in sight of the colonel's tent-fly I said, "See the man yonder in his shirt sleeves; he is our colonel." he had probably never seen an officer without his coat, and seemed not inclined to believe me, but we were soon in the colonel's presence. From Wordnik.com. [War stories and school-day incidents for the children,] Reference
Two company commanders, -- the Alpha and Omega of the ten, as Major Sloat dubbed them, -- the senior and junior in rank, Chester and Armitage by name, have rolled themselves in their blankets under another tent-fly and are chatting in low tones before dropping off to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [From the Ranks] Reference
The tent-fly was drawn aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontier] Reference
Side-release buckle tent-fly connection. From Wordnik.com. [craigslist | all for sale / wanted in chicago] Reference
Our camp being a stationary one, was, by comparison with our ordinary camps, a campe-de-luxe; for, apart from the tent-fly, in it were books, pillows, and a canvas lounge, as well as some of the flesh-pots of Egypt, in the shape of eggs, cakes, and vegetables sent out every few days by. From Wordnik.com. [We of the Never-Never] Reference
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