was bivouacking
- past progressive of bivouac.
Example Sentences
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A regiment was bivouacking there with their arms piled.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor
I am on my way east, with important despatches; and I was bivouacking with my three followers in the wood, when I was attracted by the singing.
From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The French corps had just arrived; it was bivouacking.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
And in the night, when it was bivouacking, after what it had thought was glorious victory, it had been overwhelmed and eaten!
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various
It was in Neuera-Kalawa; I was bivouacking on the bank of a river, and had been kept out so late that I did not get to my tent until between 9 and 10 at night.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
