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  • Big rectangular wagons with high wooden sides and gray tentcloth roofs, drawn into a tight circle with little space between them.

    Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

  • Big rectangular wagons with high wooden sides and gray tentcloth roofs, drawn into a tight circle with little space between them.

    Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005

  • Both wore mud-stained, almost-white robes made of tentcloth.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • When he was to march, his women rose before dawn, and footing noiselessly overhead on the taut tentcloth, unskewered the strips of it, while others beneath held and removed the poles till all was struck and divided into camel-loads, and loaded.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • They entered a crowd milling between faded rainbows of tentcloth.

    The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • They entered a crowd milling between faded rainbows of tentcloth.

    The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • With the blanket, sheet, tentcloth, trenching-tool, water-bottle, and an item of the field-cooking kit, [note 1] the burden gets heavier and taller and wider, monumental and crushing.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

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