| 单词 | camp follower |
| 例句 | "She was pretty enough for a camp follower, but I'm no longer in camp. Little men have big appetites, and I'm told the girls here are fit for a king." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Row upon row of identical tents, cook fires, tethered horses of officers, camp followers, stacked muskets, the quick, smart pacing of sentries. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I could supervise your camp followers. We can’t have the men stopped up, now can we?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His shrieks mingled in the morning air with the laughter of camp followers and the curses of those who’d wagered good coin that the slinger would miss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The noise was a swelling tide: horses blowing and whickering, lords shouting commands, men-at-arms trading curses, camp followers squabbling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A few sellswords turned to watch them pass, and a camp follower sniggered, but no one moved to interfere. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I could hop on the back of a wagon and hide, or fall in with the camp followers, no one would stop me. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Wherever you have a camp, you are certain to have camp followers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her rented escort, her cultural attaché, her camp follower, her prime minister? 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Her use of a private email server violated policy and a State Department IG report tells us that her political camp followers scolded career staff to shut up about it and leave it alone. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The long columns of troops and camp followers marched through the debris of the earlier massacres. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple – review 2013-01-26T14:00:01Z Shakespeare's Henry V roared with anger when, at Agincourt, the French cavalry killed his camp followers. Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin – review 2013-05-09T09:01:01Z A coterie of her most hard-core admirers spent years traveling from city to city like camp followers just to hear her perform. Licia Albanese, Exalted Soprano, Is Dead at 105 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Among the advantages that billionaires receive due to their wealth is sedulous defenses by journalists and other camp followers. Column: Can America's billionaires please stop whining about their privacy rights? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z That reads as clear evidence that they wanted to establish accountability for those who instigated and led the insurrection, rather than watching Trump's camp followers take the fall for doing his bidding. Oath Keepers leader found guilty: Will DOJ see this as a roadmap for Trump's trial? 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Still other women accompanied the army as “camp followers,” serving as cooks, washerwomen, and nurses. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Graham’s antic hypocrisy seems confounding to some who previously admired him when he was a camp follower of McCain’s anti-Putin foreign policy. Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Through its allies, enforcers, sycophants, servants and camp followers, the Trump regime shows this to be true almost every day. Trump and his movement are evil — but the hope-peddlers in the chattering class won't say so 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The other is of scavengers and camp followers that live off our garbage and feed on our corpses in the shadow of war. Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Though often derisively dismissed as “camp followers,” they provided crucial support. Review | Familiar story of the Boston Massacre becomes familial 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z “There was an army of truck drivers, various camp followers and economic opportunists.” In ‘Yellow Earth,’ John Sayles catalogs the trouble that flows from the discovery of oil in a remote town 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z As an insurgent, Trump arrived in Washington without the camp followers of brand-name lobbyists and insiders who set up shop with each new administration. How an ex-mayor led a president to the brink of impeachment 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z As an insurgent, Mr. Trump arrived in Washington without the camp followers of brand-name lobbyists and insiders who set up shop with each new administration. The Indispensable Man: How Giuliani Led Trump to the Brink of Impeachment 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Sherman wanted mostly to get these camp followers off his hands, and his order was soon rescinded by Andrew Johnson, the new president who assumed office on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. WESLEY PRUDEN: A novel solution to racial resentment 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z At the Ryder Cup the crowds, and the camp followers allowed inside the ropes, are another hazard to be negotiated, along with the bunkers, burns and trees. Ryder Cup 2014: Fans compete in pre-dawn race to encircle the 1st tee 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Park officials say dozens of re-enactors portraying American and British officers, soldiers and camp followers set up camps at the battlefield Saturday and Sunday. Correction: Saratoga Battlefield-Encampment story 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Women and children, cooks, stable-boys and other camp followers were butchered in cold blood. Strategy Lessons From The Real "Game of Thrones" 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z A common sighting was groups of dejected bedraggled people pulling handcarts or carrying bundles like some medieval camp followers. Taking a trip on 'most haunted' road 2013-10-24T23:40:38Z Carolina dogs, then, could be camp followers that wandered off from their Paleo-Indian masters and took up residence in swampy areas where they can easily hide out from their own natural predators. A Dog That Goes Way Back 2013-07-15T17:23:58Z Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images You have got to hand it to the Conservative party's right wing and their camp followers in Ukip. EU exit will not shelter UK from the economic storm 2012-12-30T00:01:06Z Sheep shearing had gathered numbers of extra hands, chiefly Snohomish, who were occupying mat lodges close to the fort, besides unemployed stragglers and camp followers. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z There were with us my sister, the agency surgeon and the usual tribe of camp followers. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z There was a rather capable boy among those I hired, and he hadn't much difficulty in making friends with one of the camp followers or carriers when we came up with the troops. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z On the other hand its pleasures and its profits had gathered a host of camp followers who as amateurs vied with the older professionals. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Of the female captives the most promising were drafted into the ranks as soldiers, and the rest became Amazonian camp followers and slaves in the royal households. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z The peasant, who found that he toiled only to feed robbers and to draw them to outrage and torture his family, ceased to labor and became himself robber and camp follower. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z According to his account this monarch had an army with him which, with its camp followers, amounted to a quarter of a million of souls. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z She had been made much of by the camp followers of literature, who were always prodigal of their invitations. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The army, with all the camp followers seemed very considerable. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z They were camp followers and those of the dragoons to whom booty was dearer than slumber; they were stripping the bodies of the slain. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z In front are rushing camp servants, camp followers, and every kind of army rabble, more like beasts or devils than men. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The delight of my camp followers was amusing. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Each one did what he liked, went where it pleased him best, stopped, took his place where it suited him; and the camp followers raised such an uproar! With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z This note I sent back by one of the camp followers. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Already the British storm of lead was pouring over his head; already bodies of flying, frightened creatures, camp followers of the Dervish army, dashed by him, some close, some more distant. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z And I tell your highness that when she came yesterday and said to me, as to the last camp follower, 'Be off, serving-man! go up, for thy master is lying there!' The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z We had seventeen private servants, twenty-six police, fifty-two bearers, and an indefinite number of attendants for the elephants and camels, and of camp followers. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The legions of Pyrrhus were nothing in comparison with those armies, all in gold, jewels, and ostrich feathers, with two hundred thousand camp followers. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z These were mere camp followers, but they insisted on accompanying me. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Meanwhile, the gates had been burst open and the Norman soldiers, camp followers and all, had pressed into the enclosure, Alice and Jeannette, with the women, bringing up the rear. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z There was no way to separate the Al Qaeda leadership that might be on hand, and the fighters, from the local population and the camp followers.” In Long Pursuit of Bin Laden, the Raid That Just Missed 2011-05-06T11:49:06Z Contrabands and camp followers were careering by in all states of panic. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z A dozen of his men were ordered to stay behind, in order to protect the baggage and camp followers, against their hidden enemies. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z Ye gods! 'inferior' with never a camp follower to their name, and rapine unknown even after the fiercest fight! A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z It was only by the exercise of the utmost energy that the soldiery and camp followers of the Normans were prevented from looting the castle. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z There was an army never larger than 40,000 men, but the camp followers were 140,000, consisting of gangs of Gypsies, Jewish camp traders, marauders, and plunderers. Fundamental Peace Ideas including The Westphalian Peace Treaty (1648) and The League Of Nations (1919) in connection with International Psychology and Revolutions 2011-03-10T03:00:55.230Z What they really saw was a band of camp followers and servants who had made banners of sheets and blankets tied to sticks and tent poles. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z Thus it came about that Tiberius was sent; and after some give and take in negotiations he made a treaty, and beyond question saved twenty thousand Roman citizens, besides attendants and camp followers. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Then a whole body of camp followers came and took him, my mother-in-law, and my wife to the house of Herr G�ckel. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. He gave way, at all points, and the enemy marched right over him,—cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and the land transport corps, and the camp followers. Tom Brown at Rugby One was a soldier, the other a camp follower. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers Several of the camp followers who ventured out in search of water, were either carried off or murdered, and our situation became distressing in the extreme. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan She found Mrs Willis, who was an old campaigner, busily engaged in conversation, or its equivalent, the note-comparing, gossip-scavengering tattle which is inherent to feminine camp followers of a certain age. Love's Usuries Often, united with bands of robbers, they carried on a new service during the long war, as camp followers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. But his force was hampered by a large number of women, children, and camp followers. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 In the meanwhile both encampments would be in the hands of such Tories as had remained throughout the siege, and, most like, a certain number of camp followers would linger behind. The Minute Boys of York Town What made the subordination of the troops, in the present instance, still more worthy of notice, was the great number of camp followers, especially courtesans, who hung on the skirts of the army. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Baggage-men and other camp followers swarmed about the barracks, searching for whatever their late inhabitants might have left behind them worth the finding. Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna During this time he had seldom seen a woman other than an occasional camp follower of the most degraded sort. The Mountain Girl He was just a sutler, or camp follower, or something. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The number of drudges and camp followers was still larger, and more addicted to lust and cruelty. Roman Women All the passengers seemed quite innocent; some traders returning from market, a few soldiers going on leave, and some camp followers, appeared to be all who had arrived. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches He gave way at all points, and the enemy marched right over him, cavalry, infantry, and artillery, the land transport corps, and the camp followers. Tom Brown's School Day's A crowd of teamsters, sutlers' men and other camp followers gathered around. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign “They are a pack of cowards—a mere set of camp followers.” The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon Certainly, the camp followers in political warfare are a motley crew of mercenaries, and they take their tone from quite a number of their leaders. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Even down to the meanest camp follower, everyone must have recognised the difference between what they had anticipated and what they had found. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development The Indians, consisting of about 180 braves, or fighting men, and 100 camp followers, led by Marcus Canul, chief of the Ycaiché, approached the town about 8 a.m. on Sunday, the 1st of September. The History of the First West India Regiment “You are making your jokes about that, of course, but the camp followers of the revolution is a different thing;––everywhere they are ranging.” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Nor were the camp followers altogether absent, those who hang about for pickings and have little intention of fighting. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield You see the towns in the desert, the law-enforcement committees, the camp followers, the reform fanatics. The Man the Martians Made All legislative bodies which control important pecuniary interests are as sure to have a lobby as an army to have its camp followers. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses The camp followers refused to cross by any means but a bridge, but Lady Sale and her daughter, Mrs. Sturt, rode through with the horsemen. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines Waiters impressed into service from camp followers, crudely took orders and delivered them. Rimrock Trail Yet I own to having experienced a shock when Mr. Macpherson in the House of Commons described our lady workers as “camp followers.” A Padre in France You must expect to have me among your camp followers if I find Aunt Mary can stand the travelling. The Message No less than eighty thousand soldiers, and half as many more camp followers, perished. Ancient States and Empires Five hundred soldiers and two thousand five hundred camp followers were killed, and many women and children were carried off by the Afghans. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines Many more had been of the class who would have been camp followers of the insurgent army, had that especial revolution gained the dignity of being backed by a rebel army. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers No camp followers are allowed, and all here have been ordered to leave. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 The baggage trains and camp followers are a necessary portion of every army, and its efficiency depends in a great measure upon the perfect organization of this essential part. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy These Norman spies could, of course, disguise themselves, and mingle, without attracting attention, among the thousands of workmen and camp followers that were going and coming continually around the grounds which William's army occupied. William the Conqueror Makers of History Near me Captain Kirby cursed them under his breath as “human buzzards,” and I understood that these camp followers had not gathered merely to admire. At Plattsburg A science is represented by its leaders, its authors, its teachers, not its camp followers. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 But he might try, if he would, with the camp followers, some of the stoutest of whom were chosen to contend with him. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It is surprising how large a portion of the army is composed of these baggage trains, and of the camp followers, teamsters, servants, and sutlers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was either then or a little earlier that the large body of natives, possibly camp followers, behind the Khalifa's force, melted away, flowing back to the town. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Nor, when the body was found, stripped by camp followers, and supposed to be killed by a reconnoitring party of the enemy, did I betray myself by word or look. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It was mouldy and full of weevils, and had been condemned as ship's stores and sold to some camp followers, but to us at half a crown a pound it was a treasure. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 These were the days when the carpet-bagger and the scalawag flourished,—the camp followers of the Northern army, who wanted money and office; and the native-born Southerner, who wanted office and money. Stories Of Georgia The soldier that would march through an enemy's country, having left his gun in the hands of some camp follower, would be very likely to be shot before he got his gun. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John At that time some of our army camp followers, or servants, went forward from the zereba to pick up trophies from the field. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan A mile beyond, the usual rabble of camp followers and stragglers was encountered, and soon the road was filled with the swollen stream of fugitives, crying that the day was lost. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps There was a good deal of promiscuous looting by his troops, and still more by camp followers and by the Negroes who, somewhat to his annoyance, attached themselves to his columns. A History of the United States Not a camp follower among us but knew that the arrival of our men from the North would give us the great prize in sight. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War A hurried, many-voiced reply, and hastening on past a heterogeneous collection of soldiery—couriers, cavalry-men, malingerers, stragglers, a few of the slightly wounded, and camp followers of all sorts—we quickly reached the river's brink. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The camp followers by then were all safe, and so was the native soldier, Mr Dervish having the field very much to himself. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan A Victoria Cross was also given to Captain Nevill Smyth, who galloped forward and engaged in single combat with an Arab who was attacking camp followers, and killed him, being slightly wounded himself. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign After these came a few stragglers and camp followers in hardly better plight; then the wagon trains; and, finally, the army. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Propaganda, fair one, you often turn out to be a dissipated hag, a camp follower. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 But the chestnut blight and the unresponsiveness of the hickory to propagation as yet hold up these future camp followers of the northern nut growing pioneers. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 "The other fellows are just hangers on—camp followers, so to speak." The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving The amount of the British force was 4500 fighting men: the camp followers were about 12,000 men, besides women and children. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign As yet the cant of camp followers was new to the people, who listened as though these terrible things must be true to be related. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death But the camp followers were almost as many, made up of old men, women, and children. Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm The teamsters, artillerists, and camp followers were to ride and lead the horses and mules, following closely the armed troops, who were to move at 1 A.M. on the Martinsburg road. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 He had five thousand wagons, heavy artillery trains, enormous stores, a rabble of camp followers, a vast, melancholy freight of sick and wounded. The Long Roll The population in the valley, although not hostile to British rule, were eager to plunder British waggons, and constant outrages of this kind took place, many soldiers and camp followers being killed. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign The total force amounted to sixty thousand regular troops, besides great numbers of camp followers--who were all trained to military service, and could fight, in case of need. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem I dare not send you both away, for it would only be into the hands of the enemy—perhaps amongst their savage camp followers. A Young Hero As he approached Kearnstown and came upon a high place in the road, he caught sight of some demoralized soldiers, camp followers, and baggage and sutler wagons, in great confusion, hurrying to the rear. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 He ruled his camp followers through sheer force of brutal instincts; and many a head had ached in consequence of that bony fist coming in contact with it, when a dispute had to be settled. The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain But Socialists understand that the mercenary hirelings drawn from this class, and directly employed to keep them "in order," are less dangerous than the capitalists' camp followers. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Thus, the sight of the sixty thousand Roman troops--swelled to nigh a hundred thousand, by the camp followers and artificers--with its cavalry and machines of war, seemed like some terrible nightmare. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It was already crowded with camp followers, and the wildest confusion reigned. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War There were in this mixed mass sutlers and their clerks, teamsters, bummers, cow-leaders, servants, and all manner of camp followers. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Altogether, something like fifty thousand transport animals accompanied them, with sixty thousand camp followers. Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti Among less notable personages Lely painted Monk, Duke of Albemarle, and his rough Duchess, once a camp follower, according to popular rumour, and named familiarly by the contemptuous wits of the day 'Nan Clarges.' The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art The shrines which voluntary worshippers might visit, the public bath-house, and the cottages of the soldiers' wives, camp followers, &c., lay outside the walls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" You can go in any guise you think fit, either as a trooper or as a camp follower. At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War He was found by my camp followers with another in a nullah, and brought to me. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Then all was wild confusion--camels and Dervishes, flying Egyptians, screaming camp followers, were all mixed in confusion. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman We allude to the dogs or camp followers. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba It is suggested that the camp followers of the Crusaders brought back certain dances and amongst these some of an acrobatic nature, and many that were reprehensible, which brought down the anger of the Clergy. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. Then up the street, at a quick trot, came a clump of spears followed by a mass of soldiers, camp followers and citizens on a run. Beatrix of Clare All our Hindoo camp followers paid as much reverence to the shrine as they passed as the Mahommedans. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II We had become the main party of the expedition; the others were now merely enforced camp followers. The River and I After that I became a sort of composite camp follower, deserter and straggler. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit There were no lurking camp followers to make him trouble. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty Freudism as such was merely a stage in the development of psychoanalysis, a stage out of which all but a few bigoted camp followers, totally lacking in originality, have evolved. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Native travellers, soldiers, and camp followers, cook and eat their food under such trees; but they always avoid one in which there is a nest of hornets, particularly on a still day. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official We shall now require six or seven canoes, as they are not so large as the ones lower down and our crews, servants, escort and camp followers total up to nearly two hundred. A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State So again everyone was puzzled, and not a few were critical, for in modern times everyone thinks, and even a native camp follower has his views on tactics and strategy. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria So there are always camp followers going on and after an army, as when Scott went down into Mexico, as when Napoleon marched up toward Moscow, as when Von Moltke went to Sedan. New Tabernacle Sermons The gold discoveries of 1849 brought into the country a class of adventurers, gamblers, liquor sellers, and camp followers of the vilest description. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California Every single camp follower--all the women and all the disorderly rabble that hangs upon the march of an army--had disappeared. A Heroine of France Wilfred left the ducal tent; the authority of Count Eustace speedily procured the assistance of some Norman camp followers, and the body was reverently removed from the heap of slain, and placed upon a litter. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune His humour, whether in delineating a stupid soldier about to be exploited by camp followers, or in his Animales, is unforced. Promenades of an Impressionist A great number of handsome articles were stolen by the camp followers and other rascals, worse luck for us poor wounded officers, who could not help ourselves. Campaign of the Indus So the Roman army now numbered 60,000 horsemen and footmen, besides large numbers of camp followers who were also accustomed to military service and could fight on occasion. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History They were too eager in their aim to glance aside at a rawboned camp follower in a wet shawl. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Gideon's army had done its work, and given place to the camp followers, who gathered up the spoils of victory. Half a Century Horses, soldiers, and the few camp followers and women who had accompanied the army were all mixed together. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 The change was neatly effected by some extra smoking of the Russians, and by permitting the camp followers free range in the foreground to despoil the enemy of their uniforms. The Uncommercial Traveller They were not such simpletons as to be driven away from a great truth because there are some dishonest camp followers who hang upon its skirts. The Vital Message He succeeded Pierce and the Treasury officials, and sold forfeited estates, leased abandoned plantations, encouraged schools, and received from Sherman, after that terribly picturesque march to the sea, thousands of the wretched camp followers. The Souls of Black Folk But every movement has its crowd of camp followers, who straggle and scatter. The Stark Munro Letters After the execution, the camp followers came to rob the dead. Remember the Alamo He succeeded Pierce and the Treasury officials, and sold forfeited estates, leased abandoned plantations, encouraged schools, and received from Sherman, after the terribly picturesque march to the sea, thousands of the wretched camp followers. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Kyrie's camp followers were a loose tribe of some hundred and fifty phone-phreaks, who followed her trail of piracy from machine to machine, ardently begging for her services and expertise. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier I am not to be told my duty by a camp follower. The Spy The fact was, these men supposed we had fallen in with common camp followers; but I had seen too much of officers' wives, in my boyhood, not to know that this was one. Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast The sale of cooked food was forbidden, the camp followers were swept away, and no private soldier was allowed the use of a slave or beast of burden, whether in quarters or on the march. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate The Secretary and I took quarters in the "ranch" of a worthy French lady by the name of Bridget O'Flannigan, a camp follower of his Excellency the Governor. Roughing It, Part 3. In conversation I studiously and persistently described the robbers as tramps, camp followers; and among this class the people made useless search, none suspecting the soldiers but me. Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. Snow lay deep on plain and hill-side; the cruel cold, penetrating through the warmest clothing, bit fiercely into the debilitated and thinly clad frames of the sepoys and the great horde of camp followers. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 This scene of the mercenaries, the camp followers, and their wild sports, is novel and stirring, Mr. Warrington, and I make you my compliments on it. The Virginians How far the power of the camp followers extends it is not for us to determine. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses I found out later they were called camp followers and would� marry as many guys as they could and have the men's army life insurance� put in their name. The Biography of a Rabbit Not quite five hundred Boeotians fell in the battle, and nearly one thousand Athenians, including Hippocrates the general, besides a great number of light troops and camp followers. The History of the Peloponnesian War There also accompanied the march of the humane Pollock a great number of the mutilated and crippled camp followers of Elphinstone's army who had escaped with their lives from its destruction. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 He sent away the camp followers to the more distant states, and endeavoured to remedy the present scarcity by every resource in his power. "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries The king put the gear and the camp followers from the host. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut Lions and hyaenas have been our camp followers, and not a little are we grateful to these wonderful scavengers, the best of all possible allies in settling the great question of sanitation in camps. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign The camp followers were placed inside this reserve. The History of the Peloponnesian War Europeans and camp followers had been murdered, but the sinister evidences of growing danger had been regarded merely as ebullitions of private rancour. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 The Norman soldiery and camp followers had stripped and gashed the slain, and the two monks vainly strove to recognize from among the mutilated and gory heaps around them the features of their former King. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) Eighty thousand Romans and forty thousand camp followers are said to have fallen in these battles. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. San Francisco had lured these ladies "round the Horn" since the early Fifties: a different breed from the camp followers of the late Forties. Sleeping Fires: a Novel It was all dead now, as dead as history, and the men who fought had left the bitterness to the camp followers or to the ones who stayed at home. The Battle Ground It as well as the advance was disorganised from the first by the throngs of camp followers with the baggage, who could not be prevented from mixing themselves up with the troops. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Women, also, like camp followers, took the same direction in crowds. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 Yes, we are sometimes called "camp followers," but we do not mind—it probably originated with some envious old bachelor officer. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 An equally strong line of cavalry in the rear drove in front of it every straggler or camp follower. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The camp followers of the Mexican war have streamed over to San Francisco. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The camp followers were living on carrion; the commissaries reported but four days' provisions in store, and their inability to procure any more supplies. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 In a town of less than a thousand inhabitants, nearly thirteen hundred troops, with their inevitable camp followers, were forcibly quartered, filling every house and every barn, to the dire discomfort of the people. Janice Meredith He would have no marauding on the way, and refused to take any mere lawless camp follower, thus disposing of a good many disreputable-looking fellows who had flocked in his wake. The Herd Boy and His Hermit But the army that had almost grasped victory was retreating, and the camp followers, the spectators who had come out to see an easy triumph, and some of the raw recruits were running. The Guns of Shiloh A Story of the Great Western Campaign The lobby banditti, free lances, and camp followers of the annual raid upon the pockets of the people are on guard. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The bitter night frosts were destroying the sepoys and the camp followers, their vitality weakened by semi-starvation and by the lack of firewood which had long distressed them. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 "She is one of the camp followers, I take it," said I carelessly. The Hidden Children The camp followers, with the baggage and provisions, were stationed behind the Gillies Hill. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce On again reaching Smolensk the army was only 42,000 strong, though the camp followers are said to have still numbered 60,000. A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict Preceding the construction army, and following it, were camp followers and attendants of various kinds. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan This sinister proposal the General refused, and the march was continued, led in disorder by the remnant of the camp followers. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 So they mustered them and their number was ten thousand horsemen, besides footmen and camp followers. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 At this critical moment the servants, teamsters, and camp followers who had been left behind Gillies Hill, showed themselves. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce The strikers had indeed broken loose, supported by the ruffianly horde of camp followers who were egging them on to violence and destruction of property. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Canada, or Quebec, on the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes, with seventy thousand French habitants and a few hundred English camp followers, had just passed under the British flag. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor The column heaved itself forward sluggishly, a mere mob of soldiers, camp followers and cattle, destitute of any semblance of order or discipline. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 His troops he succeeded in restraining; but crowds of sailors and camp followers came into the city through the breach; and the houses of many Roman Catholics were sacked before order was restored. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 But the camp follower with ready knife never finished the wounded brave quicker than did the "land grant" swindler finish Mariposa when her riches became the theme of every gold camp throughout the world. Confiscation; an outline The pernicious and shameful crowd of camp followers fled before her like shadows before the day. Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death A camp follower with a tray, two cutlets, and a glass of water, came to this open space just as a puff of white smoke burst from the bastion. White Lies There had been left dead in the pass about 500 soldiers and over 2500 camp followers. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 The crowd of camp followers ran away in terror. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 He gave way at all points, and the enemy marched right over him—cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and the land transport corps, and the camp followers. Tom Brown's School Days The astute hunter can often diagnose the case by the general actions and demeanour of these camp followers. The Land of Footprints Some camp followers furnished with slings were stationed at intervals on the wings. Salammbo The troops were in utter disorganisation; the baggage was mixed up with the advance guard; the camp followers were pushing ahead in precipitate panic. 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