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Example sentences for "kepi"

Lexicographically close words:
kep; kepe; kepen; keper; kepeth; keping; kepinge; kepis; kepit; kepith
  1. On his head was a kepi which was far too large for him.

  2. Monsieur sticks his kepi on one side of his head, and struts and swaggers along the Boulevard as though he were a bantam cock.

  3. Malet would have raised the kepi of one of the captains with a bullet, and he would have done well.

  4. The chin strap of his kepi was gilt, and on his sleeve there was a little strip of gold.

  5. He waved his kepi several times that they might see him better.

  6. This fantastic kepi greatly intrigued Tartarin and he asked humbly for an explanation.

  7. The sight of the municipal kepi had an immediate calming effect on the two negroes.

  8. The prince replied gravely; and while polishing the peak on his coat-sleeve he instructed his innocent companion on the important role played by the kepi in colonial administration, and the deference which its appearance inspires.

  9. All that was needed was a fine gold-braided kepi glittering on the end of a big stick.

  10. He doffed his rakish-looking kepi and bowed low before Iris.

  11. He scratched his head under the absurd-looking kepi which he was still wearing; for a moment, his lips set in grim calculation.

  12. He swept the ground with his kepi as though it were the plumed hat of a Marshal, and backed slowly from her presence, as he had many a time long before backed out of a throne-room.

  13. Algerine warfare was not like the campaigns of the armies of Italy or the Rhine, and there was no Napoleon here to discern with unerring omniscience a leader's genius under the kepi of a common trooper.

  14. On the ramparts, near the gate of La Muette, an officer is waving his kepi toward the Bois de Boulogne; the balls are whistling around him.

  15. At the same place a lieutenant was killed in front of the barricade; a child of fifteen, Dauteuille, went to pick up the kepi of the dead man in the thick of the bullets, and brought it back amidst the cheers of his companions.

  16. The young soldier adjusted his collar, and restored the equilibrium of his kepi on the point of falling.

  17. He had laid his kepi on the table, and leaned back in his chair looking at a strip of paper with a little grim smile in his eyes.

  18. He shook hands with Ormsgill, and then taking off his kepi drew forward a chair.

  19. The latter now wore a very tight white uniform, and a rather high and cumbrous kepi lay on the chair at his side.

  20. He informed our sentries that we were about to start for Mainz, and before going out the German soldier snatched the French kepi from the disfigured Irishman and gave him his German round soft cap in exchange.

  21. I saw the Seine distinctly in the sunlight, and, coming along a path, the garde champetre of the district, who with his right hand touched his kepi braided in silver.

  22. When he noticed the kepi and red collar of the mailman he became pale, trembling with the fear of bad news.

  23. I was near the general when the forester approached him respectfully, kepi in hand.

  24. The room was small, with one lattice in it that apparently opened on to the street and not the patio, and Morales sat alone, with his sword and kepi on the table before him, which was littered with papers.

  25. As they moved away with him Maccario stooped and laid Morales' kepi over his face.

  26. He carried his kepi in one hand, and though he greeted Appleby punctiliously there was a little gleam in his eyes, while for just a moment he glanced keenly at Maccario.

  27. His kepi had fallen off, but his brown fingers were still clenched upon his sword, and he stared back at the leader of the Sin Verguenza with sightless eyes.

  28. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.

  29. A gloomy, sardonic Legionary placed a kepi upon the crisply curling hair of Reginald Rupert.

  30. The broad chin-strap of the kepi was down, and pressed the man's chin up under the large moustache beneath which the strap passed.

  31. His kepi was pulled well down over a small, intelligent face, the most marked features of which were very broad black eyebrows, and a biggish dark moustache.

  32. Thet's torn it," groaned the American, and dashed his kepi upon the ground.

  33. The Englishman shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, twisting his kepi in his fingers, a picture of embarrassment and misery.


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