Crossword-Solution: TENTLESS 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The weather was bitterly cold, and as the soldiers lay round the fort tentless and fireless, a pitiless wind blew, chilling them to the bone, and making sleep impossible.

His men were in a deplorable state--hungry, ragged, and tentless; but under this indefatigable leader, they shut up Burnside's force in the works at Knoxville.

Hindustanee women as well as men--some frozen to death, some literally chopped to pieces, many with their throats cut from ear to ear.' Snow fell all night on the unfortunates gathered tentless on the Khoord Cabul camping ground.

Again the towns aspire; the cultured field And crowded mart their copious treasures yield; Back to his plough the colon soldier moves, And songs of triumph fill the warbling groves, The conscious flocks, returning joys that share, Spread thro the grassland o'er the walks of war, Streams, freed of gore, their crystal course regain, Serener sunbeams gild the tentless plain; A general jubilee, o'er earth and heaven, Leads the gay morn and lights the lambent even.

Here is the opening: The roaming, tentless wind No rest can ever find-- From east, and west, and south, and north He is for ever driven forth! From the chill east Where fierce hyaenas seek their awful feast: From the warm west, By beams of glitt'ring summer blest.