In the big new tent the Colonel lay asleep on a little camp-bed, (mercifully left there by the rich Englishmen), "gettin' ready for the night-shift."

" "Did you never happen to notice that one-legged fella pluggin' about Dawson?" He had gone down on his hands and knees to see if Nig was asleep under the camp-bed.

He came back, Nig followed, and the two stood by the camp-bed waiting their Colonel's orders.

I had the privilege of living in General Chetwode's camp for some time, and I have seen him working at four o'clock in the morning and at nine o'clock at night, and the notes on a writing tablet by the side of his rough camp-bed showed that in the hours when sleep forsook him he was planning the next day's work.

It was half-past three in the morning before the Assembly adjourned, when the king and his family were removed to the adjacent Convent of the Feuillants, where four wretched cells had been hastily furnished with camp-beds, and a few other necessaries of the coarsest description.

The three unconscious officers on three camp-beds were lying out in the middle of a sea of mud like three lone islets.

Dewes found the Political Officer propped up on pillows on his camp-bed.

I happened to say that I was rather scared at the thought of the wild beasts I might encounter, probably under my camp-bed, in the jungle; so a man, Captain Rawson, drew out a table for me to take with me into camp.

We have, it is true, gipsies in this country as well as at the Cairn of Derncleugh: but they live under clipped hedges, and repose in camp-beds, and do not perch on crags, like eagles, or take shelter, like sea-mews, in basaltic subterranean caverns.

There I saw a broken camp-bed, covered with a Kaffir blanket.

They carried the emperor into his tent, and laid him on his camp-bed.

We have slept in one camp-bed, drunk from one glass, One morsel shared!

"Compactum" camp-bed with case, and fitted with sockets to take mosquito netting.

The camp-beds had stood at such an angle that it was almost impossible to avoid sliding gradually into the outer darkness, but S.A. had scraped out earth from the head, and filled up a terrace at the foot, in a way which gave us hope of sound sleep.

The vexation of Charles was great; the day before he had been almost alone in advocating the assault; in the evening, as he lay on his camp-bed, according to his custom, he had asked several of his people whether they thought the townsmen were prepared for it.

The Doctor led the way into one of the tents; he pointed to one of two camp-beds.

I lay on a camp-bed after supper, utterly done.

" He went to a small chest and brought out a map, which he spread on a camp-bed.

" The general moved his seat up to a camp-bed, on which he spread the map.

"At nine," he elsewhere writes, "supper was served, and when the hour of bed-time came, I found that the chamber, to which the General conducted me was the very parlour I speak of, wherein he had made them place a camp-bed."

She made the Kaffir boy bring the camp-bed out of the guest-hut which Burke had occupied of late and set it up in a corner of Guy's room.

They were lodged in the governor's quarters in the fortress, where the accommodation for ladies was of the slenderest, and M. de Nidemerle made many apologies, though he had evidently given up his own sleeping chamber to the two ladies, who would have to squeeze into his narrow camp-bed, with Suzanne on the floor, and the last was to remain there entirely, there being no woman with whom she could have her meals.