In the 1st Foot Guards the officer's coat was red, and had tails; there were epaulettes on the shoulders and a white bandolier across the breast.
When Bloemfontein fell into the hands of the British the stock of Orange Free State adhesives was overprinted V.
May rose, crept to the waggon, climbed softly to the box; in another second she had taken down the carbine from its hooks, slung the bandolier over her shoulder, opened the breech of the weapon and pushed in a cartridge.
Hans marched just ahead of Van Zyl, carrying, as he always did, till game was known to be near, his master's rifle and a bandolier full of spare cartridges.
His toilet was cut short by the arrival of the train, so, seizing bandolier and spurs and dropping a few coins, he jumped into a second-class compartment with but one boot clean of desert sand.
Each wore a bandolier for cartridges, and their ordinary clothes--flannel shirt and khakis.
Schoverling, after a long look through his glasses, turned and took one of the 30-30s without a word, buckling on his bandolier hurriedly.
The cartridges that weighed down his bandolier were of cast gold, cleverly painted; the gun he carried was a hollow sham packed with raw gold; also, his garments were lined and padded with the same material.
He flapped his hands like fins, and his bandolier heaved above a labouring bosom.
Then he climbed a tree, emptied his bandolier at me from a perch of vantage among the branches, and had started to refill it from a fresh package, when I got the chance, and brought him down spreadeagled.
I had used about half the cartridges in my bandolier when a Kurd's lance struck me a glancing blow on the back of the head.
To the bottom of the bandolier she had tied the little bag of odds and ends without which few western women will venture a mile from home.
She still wore the bandolier they had stripped from the man with the bandaged feet, although Will had relieved her of the rifle's weight.
To each of the dozen Warders there present he gave a Jacobus; to Miles Bandolier fifty shillings; and on myself, who had specially attended on him ever since he was first brought to the Tower, he bestowed Five gold pieces.
Across her splendid young bosom she slung an incongruous-looking bandolier of cartridges, designed apparently for the slaughter of elephants; and a smart magazine rifle, carried over her shoulder, completed the outfit.
Besides, a bandolier of cartridges and an assortment of small arms are rather heavy jewellery for such a climate.
He looked, indeed, like a young Dutch farmer in his rough clothes, and his rifle, and a bandolier of cartridges.
John had filled his bandolier and his pockets with cartridges.
On their departure the women drew nearer, touched his clothes and his bandolier and ran back giggling, pointed to his fair skin where his shirt was open at the neck, whereat he blushed and they shrieked.
The mere presence of a member of the North-West Mounted Police, with his conspicuous red tunic and his bandolier of brightly-polished cartridges, had almost a magical effect in preserving peace.
You'd think by the cartridges in his bandolier that it was intended for use.
My bandolier was pretty well empty by the time I came in sight of the station at Coyote Landing.
That day several men were killed and wounded, but none of our crowd, though one got a bullet in his rear pack, another had his bandolier struck, and another his hand grazed.
He, of course, now that the Bandolieris lost, must get another ship.
Where, he wondered, did the Bandolier sail from, and whither was she bound, when she ran ashore at Middleton Reef?
The American ship, which was keeping the same course, soon drew away from us when the next squall came, for the Bandolier was under short canvas.
Late that night, as the father and son were talking over the exciting incidents of the previous day, the captain of the Bandolier tapped at the dining-room door and then entered, followed by his mate.
But, as he expected to remain in Sydney for some months whilst the Bandolier underwent extensive repairs, he determined that his wife and child should accompany him.
I slipped into my boots, tied on my puttees, slung a bandolier with ten rounds of ball cartridge over my shoulder, and groped for my rifle on the rack beneath the shrapnel-shivered joists.
Bill hurried away, his bandolier round his shoulder and his rifle at the slope; and Mervin undertook to set the place in order and arrange the dug-out for the banquet.
I stood and faced the bush that Mungo had shied at, and the first thing that occurred to me was that my bandolier and cartridges were with the pony.
Tsetse was ranged up beside the bank, and Hall standing in the saddle threw his rifle and bandolier up and scrambled out himself.
Meaning to be out only for a couple of hours at most and to stick close to the road, I had pocketed half a dozen cartridges and left both bandolier and water-bottle behind.
The only common badge is the bandolier across the shoulder and the slouch hat.
Taking him by the sleeve Jack led him along close to the wall till he reached his former post, when he placed a bandolierand a rifle in his hands.
On his head he wore a slouch hat, and over his shoulder was a bandolier filled with cartridges which fitted the Lee-Metford rifle which Tom had lent him.
Then each took a bandolier and a rifle from one of the sentries, and, still smoking, strolled across to their posts and stopped in front of the big building to continue a conversation which they had broken off in the hut.
Jack at once jammed his hat on his head, and, slinging his rifle and bandolier over his shoulder, set out to keep the appointment.
Close beside each man was a Mauser rifle and a bandolier full of cartridges.
Over his left shoulder was a bandolier filled with cartridges, and hitched over the other, and drawn tight against his back so that the butt swung well free of his saddle, was his Lee-Metford rifle.
But along the horizon, as it seemed for the space of two handbreadths, there was suspended this bandolier of flaming scarlet.
A hunting horn of black and gold was suspended about his neck by a bandolier of dark leather, subtiley embroidered with bosses of gold.
An' every man's got an extra bandolier of powder an' shot.
He patted his bandolier for emphasis, causing the charge holders to clank one against the other.
He tried to bellow above the din as he began pouring priming powder from a flask on his bandolier into the flintlock's powder pan.
So I can issue every man you have a musket and pike, and a bandolier with twelve rounds of powder and shot.
He heard himself yelling as he groped down his bandolier for another charge-holder.
Jeremy rose and began climbing up the parapet, his bandolier rattling.
Each scout has his rifle in his hand, his pipe in his teeth, his bandolier full of cartridges over his shoulder, and his scanty blanket under his left arm.
The guard on the left gives his bandolier a warning twist, and glances along the long brown barrel that nestles in the hollow of his left hand.
You will have to let the doctor see the place," I said as I extended the bandolier so as to pass it over his head.
Before my father could reply a body of horsemen cantered up, every man well mounted, rifle in hand, and carrying a cross-belt over his left shoulder fitted with cartridges, bandolier fashion.
I was startled by his words, but I obeyed; and as soon as I was erect I felt his hands about me, feeling whether my rifle was slung across my shoulder, my bandolier in place, and my revolvers ready.
The men halted involuntarily behind the stones, and Denham bravely kept his seat till all were under cover, when, refusing to dismount, he slipped off his bandolier and began to unbutton his tunic.
An hour later they returned, and rolling our blankets they fastened them bandolier fashion across one shoulder and under the other.
The spear has gone right through the bandolier and his shirt from the front and gone out through the shirt and bandolier at the back, running all up a bit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandolier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belt; case; compact; file; waistband
