Kel must have given up on his idea of blinding the thing with a dropped tent-cloth, because he hadn't come back for one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A minie-ball had entered the lower part, passing through sixteen folds of tent-cloth, many folds of a blanket, riddling several articles of underwear, and finally burying itself in a small Bible. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
He was clad in a few cotton rags that he had patched with old stocking-tops and bits of old tent-cloth, to hold them together, and it was impossible to detect the original fabric. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)
A remarkable circumstance connected with the above incident was the fact that, during the confusion and haste following the order for the hasty march, the brothers lost sight of each other, and the elder (who bore the flag) was compelled to gallop to the front, leaving the tent-cloth and blankets, which usually were included in the roll behind the saddle, to be carried in the other's knapsack. ❋ Fannie A. Beers (N/A)
A few pieces of old tent-cloth, picked up about an old camp, made their bed. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)
A long amphora stood in a tamarisk rack in one corner; a linen napkin hung, pinned to the tent-cloth, over it; a glazed laver and a small box sat beside it. ❋ Elizabeth Miller (N/A)
Before they (the infantry) were within musket range, a horseman bearing a large piece of tent-cloth swept along the crest of Bolivar Heights. ❋ Edward A. Moore (N/A)
But misfortune had taught her spirit humility; and the recollection of nights passed in the desert, with only a thin mattress betwixt her and the naked earth, and a little tent-cloth and the boughs of trees to protect her from inclement skies, caused her to regard her present retreat with such feelings of satisfaction as she might have indulged if in the chamber of a palace. ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)
I nearly succumbed three or four times before I managed to tear down the tent-cloth. ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)
Then I carefully bestowed the instrument in its place of hiding, tying it securely to a beam high up toward the ceiling, and finally I restored the tent-cloth wall exactly as I had found it. ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)
Sleeping-bags and tent-cloth were soon in a wretched state, sodden with moisture. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
We note that the tent-cloth is a woolen fabric not like our canvas of to-day. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Adams was sitting looking at the two porters whom he had set to hunt for firewood; he was watching their grotesque figures, and more than grotesque shadows, when a movement of the sick man under the tent-cloth caused him to turn. ❋ Unknown (1907)
When they saw him first, he was holding the tent-cloth between both his hands just as a draper holds a piece of cloth, then he ripped it up with a rending sound, flung the pieces away, and began turning over the litter. ❋ Unknown (1907)
He recognized Adams with a glance, and then, without speaking, struggled to free himself of the tent-cloth and get on his feet. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Adams could put up a hand, the tent-cloth was flung back, and the head and shoulders of the sick man appeared. ❋ Unknown (1907)
At the end opposite that where the faraway light leaks through, a mob is gathered in front of a tent-cloth which reaches from the ceiling to the ground, and thus forms an apartment, whose illumination shines through the oily yellow material. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
The skin of his fat cheeks is scored with the marks of the folds in the tent-cloth that has served him for night-cap. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
They have wrapped him in a tent-cloth, and it shows a dark stain where the neck is. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
A sickening atmosphere roams with the wind around these dead and the heaped-up debris, that lies about them -- tent-cloth or clothing in stained tatters, stiff with dried blood, charred by the scorch of the shell, hardened, earthy and already rotting, quick with swarming and questing things. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)
