28 Metaphors for tented

The temperature was + 27° this forenoon, and rose to +31° in the afternoon, at which time the snow melted as it fell on anything but the snow, and, as a consequence, there are pools of water on everything, the tents are wet through, also the wind clothes, night boots, &c.; water drips from the tent poles and door, lies on the floorcloth, soaks the sleeping-bags, and makes everything pretty wretched.

The tent in the woods, which had been proposed on the day when birch-twigs were found to be eatable, was almost forgottenor if thought of, it was as a thing that could not possibly bewhen, on the day in question, Miss Harson took her charges out as usual, and led them to a very pretty cleared space with a fringe of rocks and trees all around it.

One tent was half full of hard ice, the result of thaw.

" "Oh!" exclaimed the children, to whom the tent was still a delightful novelty; and they decided not to wish just yet for nutting-time to come.

the enormous tents spring up like mushrooms, to last a day; for a few short hours there is a medley of strange sounds,a blare of trumpets, the roar of strange beasts, the ring of strange voices, the crackling of whips; there are prancing steeds and figures in costumes curious,then, flapping of canvas, creaking of poles, and all is silent.

Equipments are unslung, packs opened, shelter half and pins removed: each man then spreads his shelter half, small triangle to the rear, flat upon the ground the tent is to occupy, the rear rank man's half on the right.

Soon after Solomon repaired to the heights of Gibeon, six miles from Jerusalem,a lofty eminence which overlooks Judaea, and where stood the Tabernacle of the Congregation, the original Tent of the Wanderings, in front of which was the brazen altar on which the young king, as a royal holocaust, offered the sacrifice of one thousand victims.

It is an event of extreme rarity to see a gipsy in a court of justice, and we have reason to believe that it has come to pass that farmers entertain a belief that the tent of the wanderer, with its nightly blaze and its dark shadows flitting about it, is a protection to their property.

In General Morell's tent were two officers, afterward known to me as Generals Morell and Butterfield.

Our tent that night was a gloomy place, for I think most of us, for the first time since the campaign opened, began to doubt its ultimate success.

They are as different in their look as the owners are in their dress, and every tent is a portraiture of the temper and tastes of the persons who encamp in it.

The dance ended, one of the girls sang with a little foreign accent, very pleasing to the ears of the Master and Leclairs the famous chant of Kaab el Ahbar: A black tent, swayed by the desert wind Is dearer to me, dearer to me Than any palace of the city walls.

I loved my little ones passionately, for their clinging love soothed the aching at my heart, and their baby eyes could not critically scan the unhappiness that grew deeper month by month; and that steam-filled tent became my world, and there, alone, I fought with Death for my child.

But a tent is strong presumption of an army.

The Sibley wall tents and wedge tents are luxuries of the past for officers and men alike.

Henry's tent shall be the arbour, and I'll have the French king's down in this corner.

The Y.M.C.A. tent is a great blessing to the regiment, and is very popular, and aids in every possible way the work of Chaplain Durham.

"O gallant youth, no farther roam, This summer-tent shall be thy home; Then will the clouds of grief depart From this enamoured, anxious heart.

The tent is finea small compact affair supported by a single bamboo.

The horses are caught and saddled, while a breakfast, similar in kind to the meal of the preceding evening, is preparingthe tent is struckthe pack-horse loaded"tout démanché," as the Canadian says.

The Y.M.C.A. tent is a great blessing to the regiment, and is very popular, and aids in every possible way the work of Chaplain Durham.

The tent was a buzzing beehive of flies.

If the tent is a ward or storage type, corner poles will now be placed at the four corners.

The tents were questionable improvements; but I agreed with them in preferring clean water to mud, and gathering up my bedding I crawled in by the side of Dodd.

Sibley's tent is a wrinkle taken from savage life.

28 Metaphors for  tented