When ground was required for mining purposes, any one tenting on it had to remove.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Soon the sun would be going down, though in the impenetrable tenting of white smoke that had spread high over all the air there was nothing to show that a sun had ever shone upon the earth.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
This left that part open to the outside world; for the shrubs that used to grow thick at the feet of the tamarisk trees had been rooted up and green tenting-cloth stretched in their place.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost