Then, as to sports, foreigners seem to put too much pomp and circumstance into their efforts in pursuit of game; the impedimenta and general accoutrements are overdone; but here again I may be wrong.
There were batteries of guns, companies of infantry, columns of transport, staff-cars, and all the impedimenta of a moving army.
All the tinware and other impedimenta had been carefully cleared away, and so the men at once filed in between the tables.
Whether they were considered impedimenta or not they hardly knew.
This is bad enough in itself at any time when you are carrying a heavy pack and all the rest of the impedimenta that adorn the "P.
Throw off the impedimenta of civilization, the telephones, the silly conventions, the lies that pass for truth.
If the saddle did not come off in time, they rolled anyhow, much to the detriment of cameras, field-glasses, and various impedimenta strapped thereon.
Back to civilization, to porcelain bathtubs and course dinners and facial massage, to stays and skirts, to roofs and servants and the vast impedimenta of living.
The amount of impedimenta which must be carried along, and the many long hills which are encountered on the English roads, will put the cycle out of the question in such cases.
His wheel was considerably damaged and his impedimenta scattered over the road.
Soon afterwards the clank of the entrenching-tool handle against the rifle butt and the rattle of the water bottle and other impedimenta associated with troops on the march was heard.
An example given is the destruction of Yuan Shao`s wagons and impedimenta by Ts`ao Ts`ao in 200 A.
Under direction of the mate they deposited their impedimenta beneath a tarpaulin, and took their places in solemn rows amidships across the thwarts of the boat slung overside.
You hand the receipt for your heavy baggage to the porter, after depositing the lightimpedimenta in the omnibus, and follow him to the salle des bagages, where you have a period of waiting, more or less tedious.
They undertake to deliver your impedimenta on payment of a fee of from 25 to 50 cents for each parcel, at any hotel or private residence in the place, on the surrender of your check.
The men were waiting below, and they were soon after despatched with Hamet to carry guns, ammunition, and the other impedimenta of a naturalist who is an enthusiastic collector.
Their tents, camels, and impedimenta had been left behind.
At first the whole division followed the one road by the eastern edge of the Foret de Mormal, the impedimenta in front, the troops plodding behind.
Aunt Clara and the girls departed to put up a lunch basket for the men while Uncle Teddy and Mr. Evans gathered up the variousimpedimenta they wanted to take along.
Aunt Clara when they had finally got all theirimpedimenta down on the dock.
In front there was much lumber in the way of ammunition and hammocks, which impedimenta was in the charge of a large number of bearers--"somewhat scared and wholly stupid men.
But his manner is changed; he no longer travels burdened with the impedimenta of his earlier days.
And year after year, generation after generation, the ancient drawing-room received its additional impedimenta without so much as a creak of protest.
Some flocks, however, are still accompanied by impedimenta in the shape of young babblers or pied crested-cuckoos.
The impedimentamake far more noise than the adult birds.
With recollections of Afghan and South African accumulations of war material and condiments, one was struck with the very limited amount of impedimenta and stores which this Field Force carried with it.
When they got there it took ages to get their impedimenta ashore owing to lack of landing facilities--as we had fully foreseen.
