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Definition of Decamping
1. decamp [v] - See also: decamp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decamping
Literary usage of Decamping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"say also that the Irish army is decamping, and marching into winter quarters,
and doe suppose that ours will quickly doe so too. ..."
2. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"decamping from Carthage, took up a position not far from Utica and the Roman works.
Their arrival produced, however, this effect, that Scipio, ..."
3. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"decamping without Beat of Drum. — Les Convenances. — A Transformation.— Rallying
Round the Charter. — Epigrams and Chansons. ..."
4. Land, Labour, and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1858)
"decamping with loaded Bullock Drays. — A Fortune out of an old Bucket. —Visit to
Fenton's Station. — 800/. a-Year out of surplus Cabbages. ..."
5. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"... for he is decamping in double- quick time.' 'Does this queer fellow—I mean
the hydrous—ever get any wings ? ' Of course he does, ..."
6. The Life-story of Charlotte de la Trémoille, Countess of Derby by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1905)
"decamping. VICTORY ! AND PRINCE RUPERT'S HOMAGE THAT Lord Fairfax was reluctant
to attack Lathom House is very certain, whatever his reasons may have been. ..."
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