winter quarters

plural noun

1. housing or accommodation for the winter, esp for military personnel

Example Sentences

They traveled rapidly until the approach of cold weather decided them to establish winter quarters on October 27th.

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It remained now to go into winter-quarters, to guard the prisoners, and to await such orders as should come from the President.

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Friedrich stays in Saxony about a month, inspecting and adjusting; thence to Breslau, for Winter-quarters.

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Different corps took up their winter-quarters in the neighbouring towns, to watch, on all sides, the motions of the enemy.

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Prince Karl has split up his force at Konigsgratz; means, one cannot doubt, to go into winter-quarters.

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