tent-fly

We'd come in at sunset from the south, and so saw nothing of the battlefield, but they were burying the dead in scores, and I'd chanced to glance aside through an open tent-fly, and there, wrapped in a cloak, was the body of old Bob Sale.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

We'd come in at sunset from the south, and so saw nothing of the battlefield, but they were burying the dead in scores, and I'd chanced to glance aside through an open tent-fly, and there, wrapped in a cloak, was the body of old Bob Sale.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

He winked heavily, pulling back the tent-fly, and paused.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

He winked heavily, pulling back the tent-fly, and paused.

Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Her eyes fell upon Hamoud who, sitting on his heels near her chair, was watching her face by the light of the talc-sided lanterns that dangled from the tent-fly.

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

From where he lay, through the open tent-fly, he could see a portion of the windfall barrier which had been the cause of the disaster.

A Mating in the Wilds Ottwell Binns

Two and sometimes three men would be found wrapped in one blanket, "spoon-fashion," with another blanket stretched above them on four stakes to serve as a tent-fly, and their fires were usually large and well covered with green branches to prevent their burning out too rapidly.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

The balloonist acknowledged these compliments, bowing and looking down over the sea of upturned faces, -- but Hedger was determined she should not see him, and he darted behind the tent-fly.

Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

Most of the baggage and tents had been left behind; a tent-fly was the shelter for brigade and division headquarters; but the food, consisting of meat, bread, coffee and sugar, was abundant and of good quality.

Chapter IX 1917

The camp consisted of a tent-fly, extended verandah-like behind the

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915