The ordinary infantry uniform consists of a dark-blue tunic and trousers with red facings, and a high astrachan busby with the brass badge of the lion and sun.
Only a Russian could have existed in that blazing sun with no other protection to the head than the astrachan bonnet, which he obstinately refused to discard.
Astrachan is a Tartar port; Odessa an Italian port; Riga a Livonian port; Helsingfors a Finnish port.
Archangel has no dock; Astrachan has no dock; Rostoff has no dock.
In Central Asia the flocks contain more black sheep than white ones; the Astrachan sheep is generally black and his wool is very soft and curly.
The skin of the Astrachan lamb is used as a sort of fur, and very pretty cloaks, muffs, collars, coats and similar things are made of it.
The overcoat which he had on was new, and so also was the astrachan which made it glorious.
He drew his imitation astrachan cuffs further down over his wrists.
Early in the spring of 1554 a numerous and choice army descended the Volga in bateaux to the delta on which Astrachan is built.
Peter fitted out a grand expedition from Astrachan for their chastisement, and went himself to that distant city to superintend the important operations.
From their attitude it appeared that they were intimate friends, and as they walked towards the station, I watched his hand steal into her astrachan muff.
The Governor of Astrachan had been but too faithful a prophet.
The Governor of Astrachan was the first to hear the news.
This suburban estimation of personal worth was a confirmation of my conclusion drawn from the rags beneath the astrachan coat.
She breathed a cold, lifeless kiss upon the boy's pale forehead, and the tiny hand of the child caressed the fur trimming on her jacket, just as he had done with the astrachan lapel of my coat.
My astrachan fur cap and coat-collar made him take me for a Russian, but, thanking him for his good opinion, I stated that as yet I was merely a Hungarian.
I folded the astrachan coat and put it awa' under the bed, but I would'na tak' off the fur.
I did so, surely, and that very nicht I went out and bought me some astrachan fur for the collar of my coat!
The description he gave of it did very much agree with what the inhabitants of Astrachan informed me of it.
I do not know whose partner was who; only this, that there were seventeen boys and men and seventeen girls or women, besides me and Mrs. Van Astrachan and Colonel Mansfield and Pauline's mother.
Max Loebener in his book on dwarf fruits recommends the following varieties for dwarf apples: Red Astrachan July, Aug.
When the earth had grown dry, and grass was flourishing, the Khan moved in person, with fifty thousand of the Crimean and Astrachan hordes, to help Doroshenko and the insurgents.
He called a hansom; he was in a hurry and he drove away, while the astrachan collar preens itself with pride and delight as it looks in the little oblong mirror.
A fur-lined overcoat with astrachancollar and cuffs!
But you would scarcely credit the treachery of a fur-lined coat with astrachan collar and cuffs.
That bargain he had purchased with the astrachan collar and cuffs treated him shamefully.
And then, all the while that he was fumbling in his pocket for the shilling which should have been more than his legal fare, seeing the distance he had come, only that it cannot be less, the astrachan collar was still at him.
A jacket trimmed with imitation Astrachan replaced Ethel's lighter coat, and a round cap ofAstrachan her hat, and her eyes shone hard and bright, and her forehead was broad and white beneath it.
Take for instance the following: ‘The 14th of October I sent letters to my friends, by messengers who are appointed to attend a box of grapes, which is sent from Astrachan to the Empress’s Court every three days during the season.
In addition there are domestic fur-bearing animals, such as Persian, Astrachan and Chinese lambs, and goats, easily bred and available.
With the public the general termastrachan is an old one, embracing all the above curly sorts; the flatter kinds, as broadtail and caracul lamb, have always been named separately.
Mrs. Van Astrachan and I will appear publicly with Lillie; and if she is seen with us, and at this house, it will be sufficient to contradict a dozen slanders.
Mr. Van Astrachanconsidered Dick Follingsbee a swindler, whose proper place was the State's prison, and whose morals could only be mentioned with those of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Mrs. Van Astrachan might not appear again at a salon of hers for a year; but that could not do away the patent fact, witnessed by so many eyes, that she had been there once.
He took her advice always, and was often heard naively to remark that Mrs. Van Astrachan and he were always of the same opinion,--an expression happily defining that state in which a man does just what his wife tells him to.
Mr. Van Astrachanhad been, in a certain way, guardian to him; and his success in making his fortune was in consequence of capital advanced and friendly patronage thus accorded.
Mrs. Van Astrachan expressed her surprise at seeing Rose take her place at the breakfast-table the next morning.
Mrs. Van Astrachanand Rose at first found themselves walking everywhere, with a fresh and lively interest.
An hour afterwards the two men, both with the astrachan coats which brought them so curiously together turned up about their ears, were walking briskly towards Oxford Street.
He unbuttoned his heavy astrachan coat; it felt tight across his chest, and he realized that his nerves were still unstrung, despite the efforts of the morning.
You know these dark blue coats lined with astrachan are quite ordinary, everybody is wearing them this year.
The man was dressed in a dark blue overcoat, and the collar and cuffs of the coat were heavily trimmed with astrachan fur.
As he crossed the hall he began mechanically to put on the heavy astrachan coat upon his arm, then, with a muttered curse which surprised the butler, he took it off again and hurriedly left the house.
During the whole time the lady in the dingy astrachan keeps up a running fire of chaff, which materially assists us.
The Red Astrachan and Early Harvest are shy bearers.
Have tried and discarded Red Astrachan and Rambo for unproductiveness; White Winter Pearmain as unproductive, short-lived, and a poor seller.
Think I shall discard Red Astrachan and Red Betigheimer on account of shy bearing.
He was going out and had put on an overcoat with an astrachan collar, and in his walk I perceived at once the resemblance to his father; he had the same stoop from the neck, and he took short steps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astrachan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
