striking camp
Example Sentences
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Recently it put up temporary fencing around parts of the library to prevent people from striking camp there.
From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017
Beyond and alongside of the already striking camp, on the right of the road, the woods began again, leaving the open fields like an alternate square on some mammoth checker board.
From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Brinton, Davis
Our faded family revived after breakfast, and even those who vowed they hadn't closed an eye all night enjoyed the scene of striking camp.
From It Happened in Egypt by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
Seeing some men striking camp near by we asked them.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
Dick set about the business of striking camp, and for a time was fully occupied.
From A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa by Cornell, Frederick
