pitched

• The tents were pitched, the boundaries of the camp marked out, and a detail for guard duty was made from each company. —  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
• Here he resolved the camp should be pitched, and lighting a fire to mark the place, they galloped back to the Sand Hills. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• The tents were pitched, and all night Major Antony rode backwards and forwards between the two peppery veterans, each of whom began by vowing that he was well pleased to see the last of the other, and would never exchange a word with him again. —  The Path to Honour
• They tipped--pitched and rolled like the deck of a schooner in a gale of wind. —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• The camps are pitched, the forces marshalled. —  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915

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