As it happened, just as they struck the fence, a brisk, elderly gentleman, with iron-gray hair, and spectacles, and a queer twinkle in his eye as he glanced up at the mass of clouds piling up in the mountains, walked hurriedly down a narrow sheep-path through the leafless woods, and entered the sugar-camp. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Have you ever been to a sugar-camp, Miss Harson?" asked Clara, who was wishing, like Malcolm, that she could go to one herself. ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)
A drink from the buckets is considered a great treat at first, and, though it soon loses the charm of novelty, is always healthy and refreshing, and is the common drink of the sugar-camp during the entire season. ❋ Various (N/A)
Western neighborhood recollects the "sugar-trough" used in the maple-sap-gathering season, ere the genuine "sugar-camp" had been abandoned. ❋ Various (N/A)
Stonnicker's fences and sugar-camp were used for fire-wood, corn-field for fodder, apple-trees stripped. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)
In the upland the smoke was curling over sugar-camp and clearing; in the forests animals were rousing from their long sleep; the shad were starting anew their never-ending journey up the shining river; peeps of green were mantling hilltop and valley; and the northland was ready for its dearest springtime treasures to come home again. ❋ Unknown (1915)
But this their host of the sugar-camp would not admit, though he agreed with her that the process of boiling must have been much more interesting to watch when it was done in big cauldrons hung over bonfires in the snowy woods. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Blaisdell's sugar-camp, and Marietta, not waiting for him, sprang out over the wheel. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
Camerons drove up to the sugar-camp in their big sleigh, bringing with them the manse party. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
When it thaws in the afternoon and freezes up at sunset as tight as bricks, they tell me that out in the sugar-camp there are great doings. ❋ Eugene Wood (1891)
As the "good run" meant milder weather, a night or two was not a bitter experience; indeed, I have never heard any one speak nor seen any account of a night spent in a sugar-camp except with keen expressions of delight. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
However, I will get back to where I was -- our first afternoon in the sugar-camp. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
For Ralph at that moment emerged from the sugar-camp by the school-house, carrying a board. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)
His course from school on the evening that something happened lay through the sugar-camp. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)
It ran through a thicket of willows, through the sugar-camp, and out into Means's pasture. ❋ Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 (1871)
Only at a mile's distance there was a "sugar-camp," and we could see the fires and hear the shouts of the people engaged night and day in making sugar from the trees. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
