They stopped at six paces, gave me a military salute, and pointed to the white brassard of the Red Cross they wore on their arms.
In the forges, the foundries, the factories and the munition plants they have not feared to don the blouse of the workingman, and on this blouse they wear as insignia a large grenade like that on the brassard of the mobilized men.
His khaki had a battered look; it was soiled and torn in places, and the Red Cross brassard on his sleeve was simply filthy.
And as he turned I saw that he wore round his right arm a white brassard with a red cross on it.
I couldn't believe it until Kendal, the chauffeur, turned up, also in khaki and with a Red Cross brassard on his right arm.
On his arm was a red brassard bearing the magic letters M.
The man himself was wearing the distinctive clothing of a Five, so his customers outranked him, but the brassard on his arm showed that his master was a Two, which afforded him enough authority to keep reasonable order in the place.
Around his arm was a golden brassard indicating that he was contracted to a Class One, and in his pocket was a carefully forged card indicating the same thing.
Mr. Brassard wrote me from Canada in December: “All the bishops are preparing to hurl their thunders against you, and your people, on account of your heroic resistance to the tyranny of the bishop of Chicago.
Long before I left the oblates, Mr. Brassard had said to me: “The oblates are not the men you think them to be.
Mr. Brassard that I suspected that a girl was sent to my confessional to ruin me.
Mr. Brassard answered me: “I cannot blame you for your disobeying the bishop, in this instance.
And what has become of the promise you have given me and to my people, to go with me and Mr. Brassard to Rome, if the bishop refused the proposed arrangements you had fixed yourselves?
Mr. Brassard had been paying my board; for, owing to a misunderstanding between myself and my uncle Dionne, he had ceased to maintain me at college.
Mr. Brassard confirmed that sentence, and added that he, also, would accompany me to Rome to be the witness of my innocence and the bad conduct of the bishop.
Mr. Brassard wanted to say something; but his voice was suffocated by his sobs.
I felt that there was not a line, not a sentiment of Mr. Brassard in that letter.
Mr. Brassard is there still living, to be the witness of what I say, and to bring that fact to your memory, if you have forgotten it.
He had started for London by the early train on Monday morning with the intention of immediate enrolment in any such service that offered; of getting, in fact, into his brassard at once.
High officers slipped quietly in and out--in khaki, with the white brassard of the Revolution on their left arms; sometimes with merely a handkerchief tied there Orderlies and messengers came and went.
On his body were the uniform, white brassard and motto of the "Dare to Dies.
Seven times we were stopped and searched, and each time I pointed to my German brassard and produced my Belgian Carte d'Identité.
We were so accustomed to them that we did not take much notice, and I just showed my Red Cross brassard as I had been accustomed to do in Charleroi when stopped.
He wore the Red Cross brassard on the sleeve of his cassock and he carried the Host in a little bag of purple silk.
I declare I hardly dare go into the shops with the Red Cross brassard on my arm.
The nurses of the Belgian Red Cross wear white linen overalls with the brassard on one sleeve, and the Red Cross on the breasts of their overalls, and over their foreheads on the front of their white linen veils.
Then he tore the Red Cross brassard from his sleeve: "I haven't the impudence to wear that during our pilgrimage with this gang of murderers.
On the floor a Serbian peasant wearing a Red Cross brassardwas squatting by his head and from time to time moistening his forehead with a damp sponge.
Young as he was, he never forgot that awful night when we fled from the fire, nor the hungry day that followed, nor the fact that the arm that carried him food, when he got it at last, wore a brassard marked like that.
He watched every movement of the orderly, who, with a Red Cross brassard on his arm, was acting as chief of the improvised ambulance corps.
Whether an enemy would accept the mere wearing of a brassard as fulfilling this condition is perhaps an open question upon which some light may be thrown by the controversies of 1871 with reference to francs-tireurs.
I confess, however, to having read with surprise Mr. Tennant's announcement that "it was provided by The Hague Convention that the wearing of a brassard ensured that the wearer would be regarded as a belligerent.
The fact that brancardiers were “neutral” by virtue of the brassard worn by them was considered by pessimists to account for the great popularity attached to the Corps of Ambulanciers as compared to the fighting battalions.
While the fight was at its hottest a lady bearing the Red Cross brassard came upon the scene, her precise object and purpose not apparent.
