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a low, wide tent having a ridgepole and affording considerable sleeping space but very little headroom.

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While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.
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But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
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Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
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The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.
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It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
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They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
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