He was carrying his own rifle and one of our late guard's weapons, as well as four bandoliers full of ammunition and a bag on his back.
Whenever we halted, Keor used to spend much loving care over his bandoliers of ammunition, seeing that each round was clean and not too loose in its leather loop.
In the morning they had begun to don their bandoliers and handle their rifles, but we persuaded them that they would be looked upon in a more friendly manner on landing if they abandoned these weapons.
Their bandoliers and their Martini and Mauser rifles gave them a certain uniformity of aspect, but otherwise they seemed the most motley gang that the hands of fate could have shuffled together.
The "Tommies" chatted most amicably with the Boers, notwithstanding the fact that their bandolierswere filled with soft-nosed bullets.
The rifles and the bandoliers were gently removed.
Within the building were Boers--not slim Boers this time--but snoring ones, with bandoliers awry and rifles lollopping.
Keyse burned something in it that left nothing but a feathery pile of ashes, and a little shameful heap of mud in the corner of a boy's memory, before he hurried to the Town Guardhouse, where other bandoliers were mustering, and fell in.
I saw him distributing bandoliers of ammunition along the firing line.
The doors of the wagon were thrown open by the concussion of the shell, causing the bandoliers of cartridges to scatter.
They saw to it that their guns and bandoliers were fully loaded; that they had with them what tools and other equipment they felt might be needed.
Meanwhile our bandoliers were nearly empty, and the Boers were creeping round to our right, which would enable them to enfilade our position.
They say they're splendid pieces; but it would be a terrible theft, because I should take the bandoliers too.
Mauser rifles and the Boers' bandoliers had been laid.
So you slung the rifles andbandoliers over your shoulders, went down on your hands and knees, and crept back?
Once there was a sudden alarm at the western end of the hill, and stooping bearded figures with slouch hats and bandoliers were right up on the ridge before they could be stopped, so cleverly had their advance been conducted.
The three hunters carried their own heavy guns, for they might be needed at an instant's notice, and filled their bandoliers to the limit.
And about a hundred yards behind him rode two black men with crossedbandoliers and rifles in their hands.
The ammunition was carried in bandoliers of every imaginable shape and pattern, mostly home made; but some of the burghers preferred cartridge bags of leather or canvas.
The ground was also strewn with Mauser cartridge papers and boxes, showing that they must have refilled their bandoliers at this place before starting.
All these men carried rifles and bandoliers full of cartridges.
The officers and the civilian element were making a picnic together, and as such it seemed, but the stacked rifles and full bandoliers told a different tale.
The dead and wounded lay tremendously thick, and still the police bandoliers were not half empty, and now amid freshly heartened cheers their contents still played upon the roaring masses.
In this manner they sported Lee-Metford rifles and bandolierscontaining Mark II.
Those of us who were not engaged in this work seized rifles and bandoliers from the heap and manned the defences of the fort until the prisoners could be delivered into proper custody.
Greatcoats had been left behind, men slinging their waterbottles and bandoliers upon their shoulders.
Under one of the lamps the watcher on the other side sees to his horror that one of the bandoliers has pushed its way up to the neck and is showing plainly above the collar of the coat.
We didn't lose our leatherbandoliers however and we were supplied with the Royal Navy's black leather gaiters.
If you look closely you will see that the four men off duty place their rifles in the rack outside the house, and sling their bandoliers over the muzzles.
If you surrender, you will take off your bandoliersand belts and leave them and your rifles behind you, and come forward unarmed.
They had all put on their working clothes, bandoliers and belts, and high boots, and the captain on his arrival, after closely inspecting them, expressed his strongest approval of their appearance.
Rifles were slung over their shoulders, and bandoliers and belts full of cartridges strapped on, and they donned their forage-caps after coiling up the picket-ropes and halters and fastening them with their valises to the saddles.
Their appearance in their broad hats and rough clothing, their bandoliers and rifles, was precisely similar to that of the men standing about.
We shall, of course, have bandoliers for our cartridges, and haversacks for our provisions and spare packets of ammunition.
First he laid his rifle by the cab door, ready to jump; then slipped over his head and shoulder the bandoliers of cartridge-clips Gordon had left for him.
They spent the next day in fashioning new garments and sandals; in putting to rights the two rifles Stern had chosen from the basement of the State armory, and in making bandoliers to carry their supply of cartridges.
He supplied her well with fire-wood and saw to it that her bandoliers were full of cartridges.
The enemy do not come, Lynn," said Blunt a short time later, when they had both filled their bandoliers and pistol-pouches.
I have been arranging the other cases ready for supplying the men's bandoliers when empty, and your nephew and I have been discussing what would be the consequences if a fire-pot came down into an open case.
To a man the defenders drew a deep breath, and their hands went to their bandoliers to feel for cartridges.
At ten o'clock we went to chapel, our pipers playing The Wearing of the Green as we marched along the crooked village streets, our rifles on our shoulders and our bandoliers heavy with the ball cartridge which we carried.
Placing our rifles on the rack, Bill and I took off our bandoliers and lay down on our blankets.
It was a terrible fight, for of course it was next to impossible for the soldiers to distinguish them, being all in civilian clothes so that they just had to doff their bandoliers and they could go about from house to house in safety.
Muskets and bandoliers of powder and shot were stacked in the comer.
While Winston unlocked the gun racks in the fo'c'sle and began issuing the muskets and the bandoliers of powder and shot, John Mewes ordered the two longboats lashed amidships readied and launched.
After they had disappeared up the trail and into the salt savannah, the Defiance rejoined the Swiftsure, at which time Winston ordered the fo'c'sle unlocked and flintlocks distributed, together with bandoliers of powder and shot.
Also, we can't have bandoliers rattling, so we've got to leave them here.
The men were already stirring, donning bandoliers and sorting out their muskets.
As they headed up the incline, the men carefully holding their bandoliers to prevent rattling, they could clearly see the fort above the trees.
Are we ready to issue muskets now, and bandoliers of powder and shot?
Occasionally two or three old Boers could be seen chatting with him behind Barnato's marble lions, but invariably they had bandoliers around their bodies and rifles across their knees.
No order or discipline was visible in the commando on the march, and if the rifles and bandoliers had not appeared so prominently it might readily have been mistaken for a party of Nachtmaal celebrants on the way to Pretoria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bandoliers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
