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Example sentences for "fezzes"

Lexicographically close words:
feyth; feythe; feyther; fez; fezes; ffather; ffding; ffell; ffentlichen
  1. Euro First came the village elders in gay dresses, capering madly on horses and mules; then about a couple of dozen cavalry-soldiers in black, with red fezzes and facings.

  2. When we came back from Tangier, in Africa, we were topped with fezzes of the bloodiest hue, hung with tassels like an Indian's scalp-lock.

  3. I want no more red fezzes and breeches in my commands for the enemy to blaze at a mile away!

  4. There were little open spaces here and there in the wood, and I could see the red fezzes of the soldiers bobbing about among the trees as they worked the cover exactly like a pack of foxhounds.

  5. It was intensely exciting; but at last we saw the fezzes emerging on the far side of the wood, and we realized that they had drawn it blank.

  6. The others, who were in white uniforms with red fezzes on their heads, stepped back involuntarily in stupefaction at such an unexpected vision.

  7. Really the difference between caps or fezzes is only one of form, but it has a psychological effect.

  8. We slipped into a patch of shadow, threw away our hats, and taking out the fezzes which we always carried concealed under our waistcoats, we put them on our heads.

  9. But with our hair dyed black (we had already effected this transformation, and it is astonishing how it changes one's appearance) and fezzes on our heads, we trusted to pass unnoticed as Greeks.

  10. One of these theatres was the Alhambra, situated in the Grande Rue de Pera: it consisted of a long apartment, always crowded to the utmost, and red with fezzes from stage to entrance.

  11. They carry their own books and wear long trousers and fezzes exactly like those of their fathers.

  12. There go modern Turkish gentlemen dressed like our fathers, but wearing fezzes instead of hats.

  13. These men seemed to be wearing greasy fezzes and dark, baggy long underwear with buttons and vestigial lapels.

  14. As he approached them, Dewforth saw that the fezzes were actually felt hats with the brims atrophied or rotted away, and the funereal long-johns were the weatherbeaten remains of those suits which are designed for Young Men On The Way Up.

  15. The askaris, their fezzes cocked jauntily, impatiently shuffled their sandals of giraffe hide, and hitched up their belts in which were thrust broad-bladed Somali knives.

  16. The dark faces under the fezzes were changed by the fervor of battle; the bared teeth shone out beside the locks of the rifles.

  17. Askaris led the way, Somalis in claret-colored fezzes and khaki uniforms, bare legged, with bandoliers across their chests and rifles over their shoulders.

  18. Hour after hour there floated before her the fezzes and khaki-covered backs of the two leading askaris, trim, narrow, jaunty backs flanking the leprous shoulders of the albino.

  19. That should have ended our day, but when we were about to break up, a boat-load or two of uniformed officials with distinctly Oriental faces and fezzes came aboard and opened business in the after cabin, going through our passports.

  20. But for the intermixture of fezzes and turbans and the long-flowing garments of the East we would have said, "After all, this is not the Orient, it is France.

  21. But one has to stop a minute to remember that these old streets are not always occupied by the turbans and fezzes of the unspeakable Turk.

  22. We crawled up in front of a coffee-house where a lot of turbans and fezzes were gathered outside, over tiny cups and hubble-bubble pipes; then we stopped.


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