Bivouacs

The ants set up temporary camps, called bivouacs, and don't always venture forth to eat on a given day. ❋ John Timmer (2011)

Mr. Abbott had earlier angered indigenous-rights groups with remarks concerning the status of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, a 40-year-old collection of bivouacs and tent shelters in the capital. ❋ Enda Curran (2012)

A trip round the whole island would take at least 10 days, and kayakers are allowed to stay in bivouacs on the beach from dusk till dawn as long as they leave no trace. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The two movements would be identical if only tea partiers also camped out for months in public spaces, disrupted day-to-day life in communities, covered up serious crimes committed in their bivouacs and called for an end to capitalist exploitation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To emphasize the cold, inhospitable emptiness of the West, O'Sullivan had to aim his lens elsewhere than at the roads and bivouacs just out of camera range. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2010)

When used as a verb, to bivouac (alternatively bivouacked, bivouacking, bivouacs also bivouacks) describes the action of setting up such a camp. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Larger workers also serve as porters, carrying larvae to new bivouacs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By night the protesters retire to their bivouacs, presumably to read some self-improving literature. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Russian wounded lay in piles by the hundred round our bivouacs, crying and moaning all through the night - I can hear their sobbing "Pajalsta! pajalsta!" still. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Moore and I trudged back through the pandy lines - and if anything was needed to convince me that surrender was imperative it was the sight of those glowering black faces at the gun emplacements and round the bivouacs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The orchards had become the refuge of homeless people, and a little village of bivouacs and benders was springing up among the trees. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The Chinese soldiers are starving by the hundreds… due to graft and inefficiency… the Chinese march an outfit from A to B and make no provision for bivouacs, food, and so forth along the route. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

Word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"[we were out] on [Bivouac] [last month]" ❋ Bujo (2005)

"There are [zombies] outside! What will we do?" "Build a [bivouac]." "Hey, there's a fire! I wonder if there's anything we can do to help?" "Let's make a bivouac." Shit, bank [robbers]. What do we do? "[Bivouac]." ❋ Orion Fowl (2012)

She was [going down] on me and was [starting] to give me [blue-balls], so I bivouac'ed her. ❋ Afern2007 (2006)

Yo, I went to see that new movie Open [Water], [that shit] was [Bivouac]! ❋ Retroafro (2005)

[girls] are so bivouac! ❋ Anonymous (2003)