Resting in example sentence
"It's twelve to fifteen mile off," said he."You may be sure the general knows we are not wanted, or we should not be resting here at Hal."What he said proved to be true, for a minute later down came the colonel with orders that we should pile arms and bivouac where we were; and there we stayed all day, while horse and foot and guns, English, Dutch, and Hanoverians, were streaming through.