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Example sentences for "made camp"

  • We had driven only about five miles when we came to some grass, which we never pass without taking toll of, and as it was about camping time anyway we turned the horses loose to graze while we made camp.

  • We crossed the Gunnison River again just before we made camp.

  • We met no one on the road, but just as we made camp a man came along from Emery with a team and buggy, looking for a ranch house he said was on a branch trail somewhere back of us.

  • It is likely that the greater number of our company were ignorant of that which menaced; but I knew full well that we had been in peril of our lives from the moment we made camp at Raft River.

  • That part of the country yielded no grass for the animals, and when we made camp at night we took good care to see that every beast was hobbled so securely that he could not stray very far in search of food.

  • LAME OXEN When we made camp, after having traveled sixteen miles, John Mitchell called my attention to the fact that our oxen were growing lame, and he seemed quite vexed because I treated it as a matter of course.

  • Just before sunset we arrived at the banks of the Paria, where we made camp, with plenty of wood, water, and grass.

  • It was a real pleasure to see the appetite of the animals when we made camp.

  • After several ascents and descents and a great many mishaps with our mules, unaccustomed yet to the work, we made camp, having marched 18 kil.

  • Areal we made camp on a streamlet flowing north.

  • That was such a picturesque spot that I made camp on the right bank of the torrent.

  • We made camp a few miles outside of the village and sent the guide to prepare the people for our coming.

  • Thus we advanced for about six miles and made camp, at an elevation of 6,300 feet, on some old trincheras, with a fine view over the vast country we had left below.

  • This evening we made camp on a flat of dry ground, densely wooded, of course, directly on the edge of the river and five feet above it.

  • At four we made camp at the head of another stretch of rapids, over which the Canadian canoes would have danced without shipping a teaspoonful of water, but which our dugouts could only run empty.

  • While the rest of us "made camp" Duncan cut wood for a rousing fire, as the evening was cool, and Pete put a porcupine to boil for supper.

  • Here, drenched to the bone and thoroughly tired, we made camp, and in the shelter of the tent ate a savory stew composed of duck, grouse, venison and fat pork that Pete served in the most appetizing camp style.

  • Finally, I instructed Pete to go with Richards and see what he could do while the rest of us made camp.

  • We made camp and I commenced to get dinner.

  • We made camp where Mr. Miller had directed me to the ditch site.

  • We made camp in an opening among the brush.

  • Nothing but bare rock rose all round, and on this we made camp, turning the camels out at the foot of the cliffs where a few bushes grew.

  • Around this we searched for fresh tracks, and, having discovered some, made camp.

  • Near the foot of the second headland we made camp.

  • Below was a new-made camp, where Austrians labored on a right of way that had come to life almost over night.

  • A mile farther on we made camp; and all of us were hungry, weary, and quiet.

  • We made camp at Meteor Crater, one of the many wonders of this wonderland.

  • We made camp at sunset, with a flare of gold along the west, and the Peaks rising rosy and clear to the north.

  • By promising to take Romer hunting after supper I contrived to get him back to the glade, where we made camp.

  • A night-made camp is always an uncomfortable camp, and an uncomfortable camp means a miserable night, which to-morrow must pay for.

  • So we made camp on the outskirts of the village, and I went to work swabbing out the throats with carbolic acid and preparing liquid food from our grub box.


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