Around them stretched hundreds of sharp-peaked tents, gray and dusty white, tents and picket lines of already saddled horses.

Now he looked out across the encampment of the British Army before Colenso and smiled; Chelmsford's little force would have been lost in the artillery and ordnance park, yet beyond that the tents stretched away for two miles.

"A circular domed tent of skins stretched over a lattice framework," she read, pronouncing each word slowly without a Kentucky accent.

The tents stretched away under the trees and smoke rose from many cooking fires.

The possibilities are various: round tents, square tents, rectangular tents, tents with a single center pole, tents stretched across internal skeletons.

Whether she looked left, right or ahead, tents and cookfires, lines of tethered horses and rows of wagons stretched out of her sight.

On the left more tents stretched away in an arc toward the beach, unprotected except by a light palisade of stakes.

The tent stretched away in front of her.