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Definition of Tents
1. tent [v] - See also: tent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tents
Literary usage of Tents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1859)
"First mention of tents in Pentateuch — The Sacred Tent — Early Arabian — Meaning
of the word — St. Paul a Tent-maker— A remnant of a race of Jews now in ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The tents of the company officers are in line about 30 yards in rear of their tents.
... Horse equipments are kept on the racks or in the tents. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The separate tents of Sarah, Leah, Kachel, Zilpah, and bilh' h, may thus have
been either separate tents or apartments in the principal tent in each case ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"For this couplet Homer has only, They to the tents and ... fo that our poet was
guided by Dryden : And pitch their tents along the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"On the employment of tents in the treatment of Constipation.—The Archive» Générales
for May last contains some observations, by M. FLEURY, on the treatment ..."
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