Word Finder - campfires

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A fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.

In a moment the men came running gaily from their campfires and began loading.

Last night I looked at the campfires and there was no end of them.

The men crowded together round the campfires.

Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim escape, and Bagration's four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store for him.

Just facing it, on the crest of the opposite hill, the village of Schon Grabern could be seen, and in three places to left and right the French troops amid the smoke of their campfires, the greater part of whom were evidently in the village itself and behind the hill.

The campfires crackled and the soldiers' songs resounded even more merrily than on the previous night.

The smoke of the campfires, into which they were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart.

Near by, the campfires were dimly burning among the French Guards, and in the distance those of the Russian line shone through the smoke.

And Rostov got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of what happiness it would be to die--not in saving the Emperor's life (he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his eyes.

An enormous space, with our army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; in front of him was misty darkness.

Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare.

It is delightful here, smelling of sun-drenched pine and a hint of campfires.

Here and there over the whole of that blue expanse, to right and left of the forest and the road, smoking campfires could be seen and indefinite masses of troops--ours and the enemy's.

Pierre pointed to another knoll in the distance with a big tree on it, near a village that lay in a hollow where also some campfires were smoking and something black was visible.

Through a gap in the broken wall he could see, beside the wooden fence, a row of thirty year-old birches with their lower branches lopped off, a field on which shocks of oats were standing, and some bushes near which rose the smoke of campfires-- the soldiers' kitchens.

And the birches with their light and shade, the curly clouds, the smoke of the campfires, and all that was around him changed and seemed terrible and menacing.

The abandoned campfires were burning themselves out in the faint morning light.

Pierre saw that there was a bridge in front of him and that soldiers were doing something on both sides of it and in the meadow, among the rows of new-mown hay which he had taken no notice of amid the smoke of the campfires the day before; but despite the incessant firing going on there he had no idea that this was the field of battle.

Moscow was set on fire by the soldiers' pipes, kitchens, and campfires, and by the carelessness of enemy soldiers occupying houses they did not own.

They disappeared into the forest, and Count Orlov-Denisov, having seen Grekov off, returned, shivering from the freshness of the early dawn and excited by what he had undertaken on his own responsibility, and began looking at the enemy camp, now just visible in the deceptive light of dawn and the dying campfires.

The huge, endless bivouac that had previously resounded with the crackling of campfires and the voices of many men had grown quiet, the red campfires were growing paler and dying down.

Having ridden up the road, on both sides of which French talk could be heard around the campfires, Dolokhov turned into the courtyard of the landowner's house.

Petya recognized the sound of Russian voices and saw the dark figures of Russian prisoners round their campfires.

All along the road groups of French prisoners captured that day (there were seven thousand of them) were crowding to warm themselves at campfires.

A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter.

Back from the pub, on good evenings we sang raunchy songs and downed more ale around huge campfires.

These setups are rumored to have been used by the cowboys of the Old West to cook their breakfast and warm up their coffee over the campfires they built.

For this reason, the affected part must be kept away from heat sources such as campfires and car heaters.

From the time people first started dancing around campfires there were probably parents who watched with frowns on their faces as the children moved to the music.

While not as venerated as the Loch Ness monster, the creature has acquired a cult following, and many a tale of El Chupacabra still causes a collective shiver through those gathered around the campfires and fireplaces of the American West.

These are some of the most popular creepy stories told around campfires and in college dorm rooms throughout the country.