Blucher; "an octogenarian is entitled to more respect than a general's epaulets are.
In his stead came generals and officers, with gold epaulets and bright stars sparkling on their coats, and entered the king's chamber, without a word to the magistrate.
His two captain's epaulets and the decorations on his breast proved that the young man had modestly suppressed his own part in the story he had told.
Do you suppose this poor deluded little soul would have left her shop for a man below her in rank, or for anything but a darling of a Captain in epaulets and a red coat.
As Mr Phillott observed, the captain's epaulets had made him a mark for the enemy, and he had fallen in his borrowed plumes.
You remember that you left me, as you and I supposed, dying in the privateer, with the captain's jacket and epaulets on my shoulders.
The shoulders of the jacket seemed to fit to suit Lacy, therefore she used the epaulets from the shoulders of the old soldier's uniform elsewhere.
The seat of the pants hanging so low, Lacy said looked too bare, whereupon she tacked the epaulets on that part of the pants, with the yellow and red fringe hanging down.
He plucked at one of the epaulets while Davy Crockett was supposed to be holding the cabin door against the wolves.
When Alfred spoke to Lacy as to the advisability of changing the location of the epaulets she explained that they had nothing suitable to replace them.
He had a blouse on with brass buttons I think he had epaulets on his shoulders, I could not say positively.
I noticed one among them that wore a British officer's red uniform coat withepaulets and gilded buttons.
The cut of the dress coat was altered and made to look smarter, and polished brassepaulets were worn.
His mother was seated on a sofa at the far end, conversing gaily with an English officer, whose massive epaulets showed him to be one who held a high command.
Brevetted for personal gallantry on the Wood-pile Heights, you laid aside your drum for epauletsand sword.
He was dressed in a blue silk Russian uniform with yellow epaulets with the sacred sign of Pandita Hutuktu, in blue silk trousers and high boots, all surmounted by a white Astrakhan cap with a yellow pointed top.
As he passed us, I noticed theepaulets of a colonel and the green cap with a visor.
These men were directed to step out in order to be deprived of their insignia of officer's rank, when Peter himself tore from their shoulders the epaulets of their order.
Peter tore the epaulets from his shoulders, and took Boris's sword, laying it beside his own upon the table.
The Major endeavoured to escape by a back entrance, but was held, and had the humiliation of having his epaulets torn off, while his sword was broken and the pieces handed to the children standing around.
The men took off Kruggel’s epaulets and badges, and then saluted him.
These reached their extreme dimensions at the end of this reign, when the sleeves also assumed a full padded shape and large epaulets also came in.
Chewink to Robin size; bright red epaulets of male; general streakiness of female.
His epaulets seemed a half larger again than others, and their scarlet was of the brightest hue, contrasting with a black mantle which fairly shone.
I shall, in all likelihood, be stationed here for three or four months, during which you may have advanced a stage or so toward those epaulets my fair friend desires to see upon your shoulders.
I stood, praying for the earth to open, and close over me; for as he moved his head to look down, I saw the epaulets of a staff officer.
I'm sure he is better worth his epauletsthan any I have seen on your staff.
Both, like epauletsor tassels, were worn lightly and befittingly.
He embarked for America, a captain of dragoons in the regiment of Lorraine, and here won the epaulets of a colonel.
Sentinels in white uniforms, black gaiters, and woolen epaulets tramped in little paths of their own making.
Uniforms abounded, officers' epaulets were not rare: even those corps charged with the police of the city contributed their quota to the concourse.
He hoped to win his epaulets in an early war with Prussia, which had been so bold as to gain Sadowa and conclude a peace without paying France the tribute of a portion of her territory.
After that, the cross and epauletson the first battlefield.
This repartee made the Emperor smile, and soon after gained epaulets for the sub-officer, who perhaps might have waited a long while except for this fancy of his Majesty.
You might as well expect Delilah to open a barbershop on board this boat as ask any of these advanced females below-stairs to sew buttons on a pirate's uniform after a fray, or to keep the fringe on his epaulets curled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epaulets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
