What would not Pen have given to wear such epaulettes and enter such a service?
At that moment a side door opened and Lebrenn saw a tall man in the uniform of Brigadier General--blue coat, gold epaulettes and dark brown trousers--enter the apartment.
The story of that sparrow-hawk with gold epaulettes and a cockade in his hat, who stopped to look at you through the show-window, Jeanike?
It was reported in Sulaco that up there "at the mountain" Don Pepe walked about precipitous paths, girt with a great sword and in a shabby uniform with tarnished bullion epaulettes of a senior major.
There were also various other rewards of military merit established, such as epaulettes of beaten silver, daggers with silver hilts, and ensigns decorated with fine needle-work.
This matters not: so long as he wears the epaulettes he is entitled to an officer's salute.
The Russians affect so much disdain for the Cossack nobles, that the latter, notwithstanding their epaulettes and their decorations, cannot but bitterly regret the old republican constitution.
When your own epaulettes came, you looked at yourself in the glass, I suppose.
You don't imagine that I have laid out any money on epaulettes and such gear?
The epaulettes would fit, though; but they generally take their epaulettes out of the tin box and put them on, to see how they look in the glass.
The silver of the epaulettes was as brilliant as the brilliant old plate that covered the Colonel's hospitable board, and the scarlet was as intense as that of the freshest flower with which the table was decorated.
I stood, praying for the earth to open and close over me; for, as he moved his head to look down, I saw the epaulettes of a staff-officer.
The soldiers wrenched off the epaulettes at the command, and, not satisfied with this, they even tore away the lace from the cuffs of the uniform, which now hung in ragged fragments over his trembling hands.
I shall, in all likelihood, be stationed here for three or four months, during which you might have advanced a stage or so towards those epaulettes my fair friend desires to see upon your shoulders.
It has been suggested that young officers and soldiers of Irish descent might render peculiar service to the cause, and I have selected you for an opportunity which will convert these worsted epaulettes into bullion.
They were both about my own age, but had only joined the army that same spring, and were most devoted admirers of one who had already won his epaulettes as a colonel in the French service.
I'm sure he is better worth his epaulettes than any I have seen on your staff.
He who has a major's epaulettes at thirty may carry a marshal's baton at fifty.
Roblado, as usual, was pressing his attentions on Catalina, and danced almost every set with her; but her eye wandered from his gold epaulettes and seemed to search the room for some other object.
The silver fringes of his epaulettes quivered at every movement like small snakes.
He had risen, and in the excitement of conversation walked about the room with short swaggering steps, and at every step his medal and his epaulettes tinkled and jingled like sleigh-bells.
He had just taken off his coat; he held it for a moment in his hand and stroked the epaulettes caressingly.
Here was a man after his own heart, possessed by a manly seriousness, and with a deliberate lofty aim in life; not merely dreaming of substituting a general's epaulettes for the simple shoulder-knots of a lieutenant.
Or the romance of pomp, of horseguards and helmets and epaulettes and brass buttons and guns at "present arms.
From the Munich of Berlinish decadence and Prussian epaulettes to the Munich of honest Bavarians!
The orders which the civilians wore fastened on the lapels of their dress coats were hopelessly thrown in the shade by the epaulettes of the officers, and the medals decorating their colored uniforms.
The company did not disconcert him either, in spite of their epaulettes and orders, and titles thick as falling snowflakes.
The length of these shoulder-cape sleeves varies according to the owner's taste, from small epaulettes to heavy capes below the elbow.
If I have left the epaulettes of my ancestors reposing in their domestic shrine, I can bequeath to my children other decorations.
In the light of a conqueror, Caesar, Alexander, and Hannibal pale in comparison, and yet to a certainty my military future could not have gained me the epaulettes of these illustrious commanders.
Within twenty-four hours my lace, epaulettes and worsted cordings were exchanged for the same in gold.
I won myepaulettes at Cairo, when three officers were reported living, in a whole regiment.
Few expected to carry their new epaulettes beyond the engagement they gained them in; none believed the Empire itself could survive the struggle.
I wore these epaulettes first in my admiration of him whose fortunes I have followed to the last.
There were shoes to fit up those who had none, and epaulettes for the knowing fellows that knew how to write.
Till the eve of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of cavalry it was fair to suppose that it was his ambition to retire in the course of some campaign with a colonel's epaulettes and pension.
On this occasion the Cossacks were caught napping and Louise came out of her adventure with the epaulettes of a captain, which Ney bestowed upon her with his own hands.
But promotion proceeded in each case with regularity, and soon it was a common thing to see a promising young officer of seven years toddling at his mothers side in theepaulettes of a captain of the Guards.
Tom watched the gilt of his epaulettesshining as he went through the archway; then he turned.
I declare, the beggar has cut one of myepaulettes off with his shot!
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