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By dusk we had got on to the open country near St Waast, and here we found that the Division was bivouacking.

From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord

A regiment was bivouacking there with their arms piled.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor

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

The night before the battle of Vittoria I was bivouacking in the open country.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to the village and had already been sent for.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf