Example Sentences

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In the 20th Century a whole tribe of scholars and interpreters have encamped on the slopes of the Bard, assaying his every semicolon.

From Time Magazine Archive

If that happens, the Chinese reason, the Soviets may simply add five more divisions to the 45 they already have encamped along the Chinese border.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have encamped upon the shore; abandoned our encampments; and now we have set off, at last, from the ruins of Norfolk.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Their carts are drawn around them forming a barricade to their camp, for here, as is customary among them, instead of putting up at taverns, they have encamped since their arrival.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt

In the neighbourhood there is a hill where the English are said to have encamped, and where there are traces of a more ancient civilisation, probably Portuguese.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore