encamp
verb (used without object)
to settle or lodge in a camp.
had been encamping
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past perfect progressiveof encamp.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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Sulla, who with his troops had been encamping near Nola in Campania, marched upon the city, and for the first time a Consul entered Rome at the head of his legions.
From Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert Franklin Pennell
They had been encamping here for about three hours, and were already deliberating about a night journey, when Claude came up.
From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by James De Mille
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