encamp

Historical Examples

• It is evening, and as we are weary with our wanderings, we encamp here all night.

  The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba

  Walter Goodman

• When night came on, I did not consider it safe to encamp near the Tibetans.

  In the Forbidden Land

  Arnold Henry Savage Landor

• They encamp before the city, and draw their trenches round the walls.

  The Aeneid of Virgil

  Virgil

• On the eastern side Murray was moving closer, to encamp for the siege.

  Fort Amity

  Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

• At the close of the day it was always necessary to run the canoe ashore, to land and encamp.

  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago

  John S. C. Abbott