What is "tents"

Usage examples of "tents".

After a few hours they would disperse, the men going to the tents of their wives or heading for the flocks if it was their turn to take over the night watch.

Seeing that everyone in the camp had taken shelter within their tents, he made his way back to his.

Brown and ungainly, with long, curved necks, a ridiculously small head for such a large body, and thin, scrawny legs with huge, splayed feet, the animals carried striped, hoop-shaped tents upon their humped backs.

On riding closer, Zeid was further disconcerted to see the tents of both tribes pitched around the Tel, with the outer signs of having been here for some length of time.

Jaafar flushed in embarrassment and hurried off to his tents to change, thankful for the chance to regain his composure.

Mathew and the other women into their tents, setting the guards around them for the night, and Mathew could, at last, relax.

Your people are poor, forced to live in tents and to roam from place to place to find food and water.

The first cool breeze of coming night was drifting among the tents with a soft sigh when the sound of a hoarse yell split the air.

Weapons in hand, men dashed from their tents, looking about wildly and demanding to know what was happening.

Oblivious to the beauty, Pukah sat some distance from camp in the shadow of the Tel, watching with increasing gloom the people coming out of their tents to take advantage of the cool night breeze.

Below him he could see the activity in the camp around the Tel: the men racing for their horses, the women with their children gathered outside their tents, waving their outstretched hands in the air, their shrill voices raised in an eerie war chant to hearten their men.

Jaafar saw the soldiers, mounted on their magical steeds, flying out of the storm cloud, aiming for the tents below.

Leaning down, they touched the brands to the tents, setting them on fire.

A long, long line of them stretched behind, bringing the tents, the other appurtenances of their journey.

This arrival turned out to be a one-eyed man with his three sons, who together owned fifty beasts, six slaves, and five tents, with two freedmen as assistants.