Scorching winds which parched the throat and made everything one wore hot to the touch were enough to oppress the staunchest soldier, but these sterling Territorials, costers and labourers, artisans and tradesmen, professional men and men of independent means, true brothers in arms and good Britons, left their bivouacs and trudged across heavy country, fearless, strong, proud, and with the cheerfulness of good men who fight for right.'

At 3.30 p.m. I left the camp and proceeded to the creek, where the timber party were at work, reaching their bivouac at 7.30; six logs had been cut twenty to twenty-five feet long and twelve to fourteen inches square; the timber is a melaleuca with a broad leaf (Melaleuca leucodendron).

All the world was before us where to choose our bivouac.

Now fate turned the special defence of the city into the means of its destruction; while the army of Marcellus quartered in the suburbs suffered but little, fevers desolated the Phoenician and Syracusan bivouacs.

The night being fine, we enjoyed our bivouac upon the top of a sandhill, near the sea, by the side of a dead Pandanus, which served as firewoodalthough it was judged expedient to keep watch by turns, and go the rounds occasionally, especially after the setting of the moon and before daybreak.

Still a few of these same blacks make a very agreeable addition to a shooting party, as besides their services as guides, and in pointing out game, they formed amusing companions and enlivened many a noonday bivouac or dull thirsty march in the hot sun with their songs, jokes, and mimicry.

My friend Patrick found a bivouac, wormed into it and went to sleep.

A thin blue smoke, floating upward, for an hour or two, marked our bivouac; soon this had gone out, and the banks and braes of Ragmuff were lonely as if never a biped had trodden them.

While crossing the rue des Bourdonnais we had noticed the bivouac of the Place Saint Eustache.

I remember we passed a gypsy bivouac on our journey, with fires alight, on the edge of a great, heathy moor.

Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

The rebel had taken no means to secure his bivouac against surprise; his men were scattered around engaged in slaughtering cattle, cooking, and making camp for the night.

Thus they had shared the bivouac of Napoleon; now they ate the same bread as Vidocq.

That night, however, a false alarm stampeded their bivouac and again dispersed all the faint-hearted.

Near the river, as we were approaching our intended bivouac, we came upon a native walking leisurely across the plain, and so intently occupied in poising and straightening his spear, and fixing it in the throwing stick, that he allowed me, being in advance of the rest, to get within sixty yards of him:

It was written on the occasion of the interment at Frankfort, Ky., of the Kentucky dead of the Mexican War, where "Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.

The Scots had arranged a bivouac in that field before it became sodden.