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Examples
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One more glance over the camping-ground to see that nothing we ought to have with us had been forgotten.
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On approaching our camping-ground we had the sharpest descent, and here, reluctant as we might be, we found it wiser to put both our poles together and form a strong brake.
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As we had seen from our camping-ground, it was an immense undulation that we had to traverse; the ascent on the other side felt uncomfortably warm in the powerful sun, but it was no higher than 300 feet by the aneroid.
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One last glance over the camping-ground to see whether anything was forgotten, and then into the blizzard.
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I consulted the aneroid immediately on our arrival at the camping-ground, and it showed 10,920 feet above the sea, which the hypsometer afterwards confirmed.
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On arrival at the camping-ground he had his reward.
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They left their camping-ground and took themselves off to attack the homesteads and loot.
Hellenica 2007
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Towards night they generally made their appearance at the camping-ground with the looks of half-dead men.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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A breezy hill, overlooking the village of Kiora, was chosen by me for my camping-ground, and as soon as the tents were pitched, the animals attended to, and a boma made of thorn bushes, Farquhar was carried up by four men into my tent.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Some dashed about, performing feats of horsemanship; others brought apricots and dough-balls made with apricot oil, or rushed to the tents, returning with rugs; some cleared the camping-ground of stones and raised a stone platform, and a flock of goats, exquisitely white from the daily swims across the river, were brought to be milked.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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