Their faces are ruddy and tearful with cold, their cheek-bones like enameled tiles; but their greatcoats are not snow-powdered, for they have slept underground.
They are two soldiers of the Foreign Legion; their helmets and greatcoats are dark yellow.
The skirts of their greatcoats are like lumps of wood, jumping about on the yellow crust that reaches to their knees.
They carry heaps of new greatcoatsand bundles of boots.
The skirts of our well-brushed greatcoats have been let down, and as they are usually fastened back, you can see two squares on the floating lappets where the cloth is bluer.
So we compromised by strolling the city streets with our military hats and boots, with the army greatcoats seeking to hide the blue hideousness of our dungarees.
I asked these men about their greatcoats and was not at all surprised when they said they felt cold in them.
Several lay on stretchers in the corridors and others on pallets in the ambulance room, all still in their greatcoats and with their kits lying beneath them.
After this, silence, and only all the greatcoats swaying a little in the draught and bulging out and then thinning again as though there were two persons inside them.
Peter was, as a rule, left to his own thoughts and spent the hours amongst the greatcoats in the passage reading David Copperfield or talking in whispers to Bobby Galleon.
The passage was hung with greatcoats and down each side of it were play-boxes.
The question of clothing for campaign is solved by adopting smocks and greatcoats and by doing away with headquarters companies!
I suppose it is because our present uniforms need specialists to keep them in condition, and smocks and greatcoats do not!
Landlord," he said, when the host appeared, "I want you to lend a couple of long greatcoats and two hats or caps of any kind.
The greatcoats were put on, the hats substituted for military caps, and with the collars of the coats turned up and the addition of two heavy sticks, the disguise was complete, and the two smart soldiers would pass anywhere as peasants.
The muddy quadrangle is thick with living students; but in our eyes it swarms also with the phantasmal white greatcoats and tilted hats of 1824.
While waiting, two men wrapped to their eyes in greatcoats came up, one on either side of the coach, entered, threw a cloak over her head, and bound her hand and foot.
Pickering lent us greatcoats and rugs and all things needful to keep us warm.
They wore blue caps, gray duffle greatcoats like those used by our Highlanders, light blue pantaloons fitting closely their thick short leg, and boots which rose above the ankle, and laced in front.
There was at least one virtue in the rain--it softened our bully-beef biscuits, which we ate standing in the trenches, wet to the skin and with water dripping from our greatcoats and kilts.
We kept only our greatcoats and such articles as we required for warmth.
The rain came down heavily, flooding us out of our dug-outs, and we were obliged to stand in the trench like a lot of half-drowned rats, our greatcoats on and our waterproof sheets over them.
At night we lay down all in our muddy clothes with a waterproof sheet beneath us and our greatcoats around us.
We pass detachments of infantry hurrying in tired and silent, and meet other detachments with blankets and greatcoats coming out on picket.
Most of us had no blankets, and we lay bundled up, shivering under ourgreatcoats on the sopping ground.
The showers increased in violence about midnight, and early in the morning fell in drenching sheets, which pierced through the blankets and greatcoats of the houseless and tentless soldiers.
Its inmates had evidently fled in great disorder, for their greatcoats and uniform jackets strewed the floors, and bags of the black bread filled every corner, as well as an incredible quantity of old boots.
Their grey greatcoats rendered them almost invisible even when close at hand.
During the afternoon greatcoats were received, and very necessary they were, for when we rose next morning ice had formed in our pails, and the trees on the mountain side were beginning to turn red.
Some days rifles were to be taken and greatcoats left in stores, and next day the rifles were to be left and greatcoats were to be taken.
We buckled and unbuckled those straps and rolled and unrolled our greatcoats for half a year before the new kit was handed out.
He had left home with some foreboding, having swathed his more vital parts in layers of flannel, and put on twogreatcoats as a soft kind of armor.
Just then up came a broad-brimmed hat, above a confused mass of greatcoats and coloured shawls.
We sat about on the great field in our greatcoatsand waited for the field kitchens and rations to arrive.
We sat for the most part in greatcoats and silence, watching the shelling of Ypres.
We all slept in our greatcoats on the floor, which was as hard as most floors are, and dirtier than the generality; but being out of the water and able to stretch oneself at full length made up for all deficiencies.
I pointed out that we were badly off for boots, and that the 92nd Highlanders had only one hundred greatcoats fit for wear, which were used by the men on night duties.
Though there were several greatcoats about the coach, it was not easy to get over this difficulty which Joseph had started.
On six or so nights the water in the chatties would freeze and then we piled everything including our greatcoats on our beds and even then we sometimes shivered.
Something had to be done so we were issued with dark blue greatcoats that had originally been destined for the Royal Navy or Air Raid Wardens.
Winter was coming on and we still didn't have greatcoats though at great expense we had added swagger canes to our wardrobes to assist in our deportment and keep our hands out of our pockets.
The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up.
Though the aide-de-camp did not know these circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the men should be in theirgreatcoats and in marching order, and that the commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied.
The night was bitterly cold, and many of those on outpost duty had nothing but greatcoats to keep them warm, some of the waggons not having yet arrived.
Then the men sat down, under the shade of greatcoats supported by ramrods and other contrivances, and either slept or talked until half-past two; when the bugle sounded.
The greatcoats were rolled up and strapped on to the knapsacks, then there was a vigorous use of the brush, to remove the thick dust gathered on the march.
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