bell-tent

The “station” consists of a wool shed, a low grass hut, a hut with one side gone, a bell-tent, and the more substantial cabin in which we are lodged.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Its great hooped skirt hung from the armpits and spread like a bell-tent to the ground.

Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

Coming back to tea, the Cubs were delighted to find their Scoutmaster sitting on the floor of the bell-tent, a large bun in one hand and a mug of tea in the other.

Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light

We shall be two in a bell-tent, or dozens in a big store tent, uncertain yet which, and we are to have a bath tent.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

As I left the cook-house I decided exactly in my own mind where the bell-tent ropes extended, ditto those of the store tent and the Mess, but invariably, just as I thought I was clear, something caught my ankle as securely as any snake, and down I crashed on top of the tray, the plates, mugs, and knives scattering all around.

Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

For a whole week he kept his eyes intermittently on the brown bell-tent, but the stranger came not.

Colorado Jim George Goodchild

Artillery provided me with a small bell-tent that was very useful, and enabled me to keep my stores out of reach of the light-fingered gentry, who were as busy in the Crimea as at Epsom or Hampton Court.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

Last night almost choked in the bell-tent, the night before sea-sick, and now wakened up for rum and cawfee.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

The night before I had slept in a bell-tent where a man's head pointed to each seam in the canvas, to-night it seemed as if I should sleep, if that were possible, in a still more crowded place, where we had now barely standing room, and where it was difficult to move about.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

Here a new world opened to our eyes: a canvas city, the mushroom growth of our warring times lay before us; tent after tent, large and small, bell-tent and marquee in accurate alignment.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926