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Example sentences for "epaulette"

Lexicographically close words:
eout; epact; epaulement; epaulet; epaulets; epauletted; epaulettes; epea; epee; epei
  1. The drawings will show how the points of a doublet may be varied, the epaulette left or taken away, the little skirts cut or left plain.

  2. They were made without sleeves, like a waistcoat, and an epaulette overhung the armhole.

  3. The ball struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, and penetrated his chest.

  4. I picked up the epaulette just as the other Serb, sword in one hand and revolver in the other, edged round the tables to the centre of the room for his attack upon my liaison officer.

  5. It is not here, nor now, that I am going to tell why I wear the epaulette no longer.

  6. Ay,' said another, 'we serve in an army where crowns are military distinctions, and the epaulette is only the first step to a kingdom.

  7. Dat Colonel Epaulette is come to vait on dem.

  8. But, consider, my dear, if Colonel Epaulette does us the honour of a visit, how he'll be shocked at your appearance!

  9. I'll introduce you to Colonel Epaulette yonder.

  10. Only tell Sir John and my Lady de Bull, dat Colonel Epaulette is come to vait on dem.

  11. The epaulette is worn in the British navy by officers above the rank of sub-lieutenant; in the army it ceased to be worn about 1855.

  12. The lieutenant was right,--the epaulette had the worst of the adventure; and, in half an hour I proceeded on my way to headquarters.

  13. I been you, it is not such an epaulette as this I had worn.

  14. The epaulette was noblesse; the shako, a coronet.

  15. The course of the fatal ball is shewn by a hole over the left shoulder, and part of the epaulette is torn away; which agrees with Dr.

  16. The badge of the Order was confined at the shoulder by an epaulette composed of large brilliants, and a most splendid George was suspended from the ribbon, wholly formed of brilliants.

  17. The epaulette I wear I never was false to.

  18. He knows, too, that the grade of officer is open to merit alone, and he feels that the epaulette may be his own one day.

  19. My second epaulette did not reach me till 1830; then I took a little turn in Africa.

  20. A stranger's hand closed his eyes, while I was gaining my first epaulette at the battle of Jena.

  21. Every one who wore an epaulette visited M.

  22. It might get him the long-coveted epaulette of alferez.


    23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epaulette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.