bivouacked

• And some of the holes and corners in which we bivouacked, as the ladies called it, were something like this place where we are now, so that when I came down here it put me in mind of them. —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)
• All this however occurred nearly two months after the time of which I write, and it is introduced here merely by way of explaining the things which happened to Sam on the morning of the rash resumption of his journey This man Weatherford, the fiercest enemy the whites had, with a party of about twenty-five Indians, bivouacked, the night before, in the edge of the woods, and when Sam mounted his horse that morning the Indians were lying asleep immediately in his path as he rode blindly out of the thicket. —  The Big Brother A Story of Indian War
• And some of the holes and corner in which we bivouacked, as the ladies called it, were something like this place where we are now, so that when I came down here it put me in mind of them. —  Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
• Later the men had bivouacked, and all along the rest of the road we passed little fires of fresh brushwood, the sparks pouring up like fountains into the night, round which the soldiers and drivers were sitting and singing their weird songs At Podgoritza we found Dr. Lilias Hamilton at supper with her staff. —  The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia
• Just above the spot where the men bivouacked was a lofty mound surmounted by a turret, from which an armed sentry of a regiment of redif (or militia) kept watch over the surrounding country. —  Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels

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