When we reached the hovel that was the headquarters of the detachment, only two or three soldiers were lounging around the fire; but the news of a capture roused most of the sleepers, and the low, dim room was soon filled, suffocatingly, with a squalid crowd, in and out of uniform: prominent, in the midst, stood the long, lank, half-dressed figure of the lieutenant in command.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
The air was close, and soon after the boy began going up, the sun beat down on the canvas cover suffocatingly.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.