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
For an hour after striking camp the little professor did not build a fire, but sat looking up the shore of the lake through his hunting glass.
From Kazan by James Oliver Curwood
We then pushed on to the west, striking camp on the West Fork of the North Platte, where we stayed two nights.
From Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education by William Suddards Franklin
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 Davis Brinton
Now is the time, as we shall soon be striking camp, and I might see you no more.
From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
