sugar-camp

As it happened, just as they struck the fence, a brisk, elderly gentleman, with iron-gray hair, and spectacles, and a queer twinkle in his eye as he glanced up at the mass of clouds piling up in the mountains, walked hurriedly down a narrow sheep-path through the leafless woods, and entered the sugar-camp.

The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

Stonnicker's fences and sugar-camp were used for fire-wood, corn-field for fodder, apple-trees stripped.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

"Have you ever been to a sugar-camp, Miss Harson?" asked Clara, who was wishing, like Malcolm, that she could go to one herself.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

Western neighborhood recollects the "sugar-trough" used in the maple-sap-gathering season, ere the genuine "sugar-camp" had been abandoned.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

A drink from the buckets is considered a great treat at first, and, though it soon loses the charm of novelty, is always healthy and refreshing, and is the common drink of the sugar-camp during the entire season.

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various

In the upland the smoke was curling over sugar-camp and clearing; in the forests animals were rousing from their long sleep; the shad were starting anew their never-ending journey up the shining river; peeps of green were mantling hilltop and valley; and the northland was ready for its dearest springtime treasures to come home again.

The Song of the Cardinal 1915

But this their host of the sugar-camp would not admit, though he agreed with her that the process of boiling must have been much more interesting to watch when it was done in big cauldrons hung over bonfires in the snowy woods.

Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

Blaisdell's sugar-camp, and Marietta, not waiting for him, sprang out over the wheel.

Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

Camerons drove up to the sugar-camp in their big sleigh, bringing with them the manse party.

The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898

In the upland the smoke was curling over sugar-camp and clearing; in the forests animals were rousing from their long sleep; the shad were starting anew their never-ending journey up the shining river; peeps of green were mantling hilltop and valley; and the northland was ready for its dearest springtime treasures to come home again.

The Song of the Cardinal Gene Stratton-Porter 1893