Literary notes about cAMP (AI summary)
The term "camp" in literary usage encapsulates a variety of temporary, provisional, or setting-specific meanings. In many historical narratives, it defines a physical location where groups—whether Native American tribes residing for the winter ([1]) or military forces establishing positions before battle ([2], [3])—gather to live or to strategize. In adventure and travel literature, it marks both a resting place for explorers, as seen with travelers setting up tents ([4], [5]), and a setting for communal rituals, such as a camp mass ([6]). The word also shifts in nuance within military narratives, serving as a descriptor for personal roles and subordinate positions, notably that of an aide-de-camp ([7], [8]), while in some writings it even extends into metaphorical spaces, evoking the informal camaraderie of camp-fire songs ([9]). Overall, its varied deployment enriches the historical, aesthetic, and sociocultural textures of the texts where it appears.
- Near by an Indian tribe had erected a camp, where they remained from that fall until the next spring.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States by George T. Flom - I now determined upon a regular siege—to "out-camp the enemy," as it were, and to incur no more losses.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Tents and camp-equipage were hauled up, and soon the camp was established.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Four sleds pulled in from the river bed to the camp among the trees.
— from White Fang by Jack London - His camp was a short distance off the Monterey road, in the woods, and consisted of four or five tents, with a sapling railing around the front.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Father Malachi O’Flynn in a lace petticoat and reversed chasuble, his two left feet back to the front, celebrates camp mass.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - He involuntarily looked round at the aide-de-camp.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - The wounded man turned towards the aide-de-camp who had brought it, and said to him,— "I will not have this cross.
— from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo - Still Caius of Corioli, his triumphs and his wrongs, His vengeance and his mercy, live in our camp-fire songs.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
