Presently there slowly issued from this recess a sturdy form in dusty blue blouse, the sleeves of which were decorated with chevrons in far-faded yellow.
Transparent colour was often applied over this tinning, which, shining through, gave it lustre; or the tinning alternated with the colour as in chevrons of tin and blue and red.
Hiram Sill had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his work on Christmas morning and the two chevrons of a corporal for his work in general.
She saw her debarrass herself of her companion, a French officer whose exquisite horizon-blue uniform was amazingly crossed with the wound and service chevrons of three years' warfaring.
The jambs were richly ornamented with incised chevrons and other designs.
The effect is striking, and the bold colouring of fesses and chevrons lightens the sombre tone of the mahogany cases.
C, 21' to mistake the scarlet chevrons of Clare for the blue and white chess-board coat of Warren.
The mountains rose on either side high above where the hardiest trees could manage to exist, gorgeously stained in great chevrons of red, orange and rust yellow.
What irony to parade with thirty years of service chevrons on his sleeves, and be pointed out as the father of a man hanged for deserting to the Filipinos!
You would have stood a good chance for chevrons next month if you had let cigarettes and novels alone and taken a little more care to avoid demerit.
Frank was no longer a plebe, and the glistening chevrons on his sleeves told that the first year in the academy had not been wasted.
A band of chevrons within chevrons are on the trousers of two figures.
The trunk has usually a row of chevrons or diamonds running along the dorsal and ventral median lines; the lateral ornamentation usually consists of transverse lines, separated by rows of spots; sometimes these run longitudinally.
Three soldiers halted in their tracks, the fourth, with the white chevrons of a corporal on his sleeves, came bounding across the street without waiting for a demand to advance for recognition.
Men, I guess you've each of you got your first grip on one of thechevrons that Shrimp dropped.
As it was necessary that they should go out, their uniforms were kept in order, for the pupils were proud of their braided tunics, and of the chevrons reaching to the elbow.
And now he shuddered as he thought of the change; and yet it was not altogether painful, for the chevrons of his uniform delighted him, and he was happy in concealing his long legs in the skirt of his tunic.
So there thechevrons stood when the two were ushered into the presence of the gray-haired chief; and he arose, and stepping forward, held out a hand to each.
The chevrons in such cases cannot have been 'dragged' by the old ingenious plan; they must have been elaborately applied one by one.
On some little amphorae from Southern Italy the chevrons are of a manganese purple on a white translucent ground--this colour appears never to be combined with the more frequent blues and yellows.
Feather-like curved chevrons of this colour, combined with turquoise and opaque white on a deep blue ground, constitute indeed the normal type of decoration in a whole series of these little vases.
In glass they found a substance hard enough to allow of more delicate forms, and on it chevrons of yellow and white could be traced upon a nearly opaque ground of turquoise or dark blue.
But she had obliquely noticed that he was young and slim, and that he wore three chevrons upon his sleeve.
Baldwin with two of the Clare chevrons on his shield, and a marginal note, almost illegible, duly describes him as grandfather of Baldwin Wac.
And now Joe, seeing that the chevrons might be useful, instead of applying to the commissary for a regulation set, cut strips of light blue from the skirt of his overcoat and rudely sewed them on the sleeve of one arm only.
Looking back upon this and similar incidents of our earlier service, I often wonder how Joe kept his chevrons at all.
The chevrons and vertical fillets with which they are decorated may either have been carved in the wood or inlaid in metal.
The simplest of them all is a broad yellow band edged on each side by a line of alternately red and blue chevronsseparated from each other by white lines.
He did not lose his chevronson account of his mistakes.
The chevrons on his arms had raised Si several degrees in the estimation not only of himself, but of the other members of the company.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chevrons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
