Example Sentences

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We will encamp here," said the trapper, "until we shall have recruited ourselves and horses.

From The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West by Belisle, D. W. (David W.)

There, over yonder, is the place for us, mi hijos; we will encamp among those boulders.

From Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Rainey, W. (William)

There is now assembled near Paris a body of sixteen thousand deserters, daily increasing; who, they fear, will encamp and dictate to the capital, in spite of their militia of twenty thousand bourgeois.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

Surely they will encamp not far from this, and if we follow their tracks we might come upon them as suddenly as they surprised you.”

From Adventures in Australia by Kingston, William Henry Giles

“The armies will encamp in sight of each other,” said Phil.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard