Temporary camp

Usage examples of bivouac.

Here they went ashore to a wretched bivouac, to lie about the camp fires, with their belts drawn tight, chewing grass or aromatic leaves to allay their hunger.

The sickness upset them for the day, so that the force remained there, at bivouac in the village, until the next morning.

The river went brawling past their bivouac at a little distance, and some of the men caught fish, and broiled them in the coals for their suppers.

Other wounded men walked away from the battle, staggering in the sun towards their old bivouac areas.

The Quartermasters marked bivouac areas for the various battalions in the soaking fields.

Charlie Weller, who was allowed to bivouac with the veterans because they liked him, plucked a head of soaking wet rye and shook his head sadly.

Jensens were talking as they walked across the clearing from their bivouac tent.

Ruth smoothed the un-smoothable cloth of her bivouac slacks, like a woman not used to being without a skirt.

McAuliff, Sam Tucker, and Alison sat around a small bivouac table, the light of the dying fires flickering across their faces as they talked quietly.

As they neared the bivouac area, black men in rags could be seen in the bush, the early dawn light shafting through the dense foliage, intermittently reflecting off the barrels of their weapons.

But Echo and George companies had finally reached the bivouac areas that the recon platoons had found for them, scattered through two deep gullies and a patch of thick scrub forest where the two gullies met.

They had moved in and made their bivouac at the foot of an old abandoned railroad embankment that jutted up nudely out of the scrubby liana and keawe jungle a couple of hundred yards inside the fence.

Prew explained, as they started back up toward the bivouac, them on one side, Slade on the other, stumbling over roots and bumping into branches.

Infantry, soldier, we do not allow men from other outfits to hang around our bivouac area.

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove off down the gravel toward the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously drunkenly imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, somespace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it.