bivvies

It was getting late and the others would have rustled all the best bivvies by now.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various

The 7th went to the support trenches they had recently vacated, but the 41st divisional R. E's. had been busy upon them during our absence, and a few habitable bivvies had been made.

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

Somebody shouts: "Mail up!" and this brings out a number of interested faces from the entrances to "bivvies."

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

All George's performances in the art of rustling bivvies rank as star.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Various

The horses are all picketed out in a field, and we are in bivvies.

Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Keith Henderson 1932

The clay cliff dropped precipitously in front, and facing them in the opposite cliff were similar bivvies, with the inhabitants of whom Mac and his cobbers were in the way of exchanging friendly conversation at odd moments of the night or day.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

The bivvies were roomy and comfortable, the ground was comparatively clean, and was sufficiently gradual in its rise to prevent constant avalanches of earth from above.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

With an abundance of firewood and water, with the sea always near to be bathed in, awninged bivvies and a well-stocked larder, they lived in undreamed-of luxury.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

For over a month we had only bivvies, the usual rifle-supported blanket, tugging and straining at the stones which held it whenever a 'dust-devil' danced by or a sandstorm arose.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

At Sumaikchah our bivvies had been side by side, where the green was most glowing, and we had rejoiced together in that light and colour.

The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916