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1. It amused him that his little bivouac now contained over one hundred thousand dollars worth of fur at pre-pulse prices
2. We formed up again in three ranks and we were soon on our way to the nights bivouac and we sang as we marched along
3. after starting to move around did he realize that he had a bivouac fall on top of him
4. He pitched a bivouac over Lucky, and made him as comfortable as he could
5. In a short time they did more damage than the red ants: they destroyed the furniture in the parlor, in their madness they tore to shreds the hammock that had resisted the sad bivouac loves of Colonel Aureliano Buendía and they disemboweled the mattresses and emptied them on the floor as they suffocated in storms of cotton
6. I spent some time thinking about being on bivouac and asked our beloved sergeant about a dilemma I faced
7. There was already some furious activity there, with the women landed by the transports working quickly to prepare their bivouac area and to stockpile their materiel and supplies
8. All the women he could see moved with a purpose, working quickly to establish a livable bivouac area for their unit and to improve the aircraft parking area in front of the tree line
9. She was on vacation in Idaho in the early summer of last year, when an orienteering trip placed her on the edge of a Melioran bivouac
10. He knew that they were located in the craterous badlands where they’d established a crude bivouac using jagged rocks
11. in their bivouac, immediately added, in his rude English: "Moon comes and white
12. After going about thirty paces, he smelt the appetizing odor of the kid that was roasting, and knew thus that he was passing the bivouac; they then led him on about fifty paces farther, evidently advancing towards that part of the shore where
13. Behold the mansion reared by dedal Jack See the malt stored in many a refluent sack, In the proud cirque of Jackjohn's bivouac
14. There’d be more than enough daylight left when they reached their positions, and the support element had already reached its position and begun erecting the first of the tents for their intended post-battle bivouac
15. It opened a prospect; the prospect one gained at the turn of the avenue, as I had first seen it with Sebastian, of the secluded valley, the lakes falling away one below the other, the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty; a soldier's dream in a foreign bivouac; such a prospect perhaps as a high pinnacle of the temple afforded after the hungry days
16. The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: ‘Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds
17. In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring
18. The huge, endless bivouac that had previously resounded with the crackling of campfires and the voices of many men had grown quiet, the red campfires were growing paler and dying down
19. Denisov himself intended going with the esaul and Petya to the edge of the forest where it reached out to Shamshevo, to have a look at the part of the French bivouac they were to attack next day
20. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou
21. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops
22. Hougomont and La Haie-Sainte continued to burn, forming, one in the west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense semicircle over the hills along the horizon
23. "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two ingrates, his country and myself
24. He found a means to traverse the throng and to pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the sentinels
25. He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who had left on all the victorious battle-fields of Europe drops of that same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade blackened with powder, his brow furrowed with his helmet, in barracks, in camp, in the bivouac, in ambulances, and who, at the expiration of twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done everything for France and nothing against her
26. The first task was to get firewood and straw for the bivouac, and for this purpose they would climb on to the neighbouring houses and carry off roofs, rafters, partitions, and everything combustible, reducing the whole building to ruins, despite the cries, threats, and resistance of those who were within
27. The camp presented the appearance not of a military bivouac, but rather of a market where every soldier, turned tradesman, was busy selling the most valuable articles at the most moderate prices; where all the men, though living in the open field exposed to rain and storm, ate from porcelain plates, drank out of silver goblets, and were surrounded with the costliest luxuries of the period
28. The Emperor without waiting for an answer turned away and said to one of the officers as he went: “Have these gentlemen attended to and taken to my bivouac; let my doctor, Larrey, examine their wounds
29. Denísov himself intended going with the esaul and Pétya to the edge of the forest where it reached out to Shámshevo, to have a look at the part of the French bivouac they were to attack next day
30. An hour before dawn a halt was called to bivouac on the reverse slope of a hill until the journey could be completed in the darkness of the following night
31. Hearing the commotion, the Commandant put his head out of his bivouac and shouted, "What the dickens do you mean galloping through here?"
1. We slept where we could, Sir Brian securing two discarded blankets, under which we bivouacked in the sopping grass with some degree of comfort
2. The VC spread out and bivouacked all around them
3. bivouacked on tiny ledges while bitter winds and restless dreams urged us toward the
4. The host was bivouacked in the pine-woods that clustered about Eilenach
5. He had bivouacked at Dion-le-Mont, and had set out at daybreak; but the roads were impassable, and his divisions stuck fast in the mire
6. We bivouacked at the edge of the forest in full view of this image of the infernal regions
1. Someone mentioned that Captain Tushin was bivouacking close to the village and had
2. The two Pavlograd squadrons were bivouacking on a field of rye, which was already in ear but had been completely trodden down by cattle and horses
3. The fifth company was bivouacking at the very edge of the forest
4. The troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat
5. Someone mentioned that Captain Túshin was bivouacking close to the village and had already been sent for
6. The two Pávlograd squadrons were bivouacking on a field of rye, which was already in ear but had been completely trodden down by cattle and horses
1. There were three small bivouacs erected in a semi-circle facing the fire
2. to hungry bivouacs in the snow, to pain and hardship and to the risk of all the bright Now Ashley was going away, back to Virginia, back to the long marches in the sleet, beauty of his golden head and proud slender body being blotted out in an instant, like an ant beneath a careless heel
3. Many have died last days on the road or at the bivouacs
4. There are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned trees, which mark the site of these poor bivouacs trembling in the depths of the thickets
5. Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points of the Parisian character, generosity, devotion, stormy gayety, students proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, contempt of death on the part of passers-by
6. The chief cause of the débâcle was hunger, followed by rapid and ceaseless marches and bivouacs without sleep or rest; and lastly, the cold when it became very intense
7. It should be mentioned that when the retreat began most of the men had furs of different kinds, but in the nightly bivouacs, the snow, melted by the heat of the fires, soaked them through and through, and they afterwards froze again into solid blocks of ice
8. Stragglers who had deserted from their regiments were repulsed wherever they went, and could find no place in the bivouacs
9. Before them lay the promised land, where the hungry should be filled and the weary be at rest, where they were to lie in warm and comfortable rooms and forget their nightly bivouacs in forty degrees of frost
10. Handfuls of decaying straw, the broken and trampled remnants of former bivouacs, or thatch torn from the roofs of what few huts remained, furnished all their provender, and they perished in the camp by thousands
11. By evening, the adjutants had spread it to all ends and parts of the army, and in the night from the nineteenth to the twentieth, the whole eighty thousand allied troops rose from their bivouacs to the hum of voices, and the army swayed and started in one enormous mass six miles long
12. The fires and shouting in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the Emperor himself rode round his bivouacs
13. Many have died these last days on the road or at the bivouacs
