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The sepoys had succeeded in crossing the river and were bivouacking immediately in front of them.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh

It was a very wet evening, and my men who were bivouacking with no tents had a bad time of it.

From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)

Thousands and thousands of men were bivouacking there in the open, improvising as best they could their habitations.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

From his new position, less than four hundred yards from the spot where the unsuspecting Huns were bivouacking, Wilmshurst could keep them under close observation.

From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest

For almost five days now I have been, as it were, bivouacking.

From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance