She was lovely, with a delicacy of feature that betokened the high-born and high-bred, but dressed in a dainty khaki riding costume, if that uncompromising fabric could ever be called dainty.
While I mused over this a loud yelling came from that spot and immediately some 20 or 30 khaki clad figures emerged carrying rifles and with their faces blackened.
The tropical kit I gave to my neighbour as I vowed never to wear khaki again.
A new item was now added to our kit to improve our lot; to alleviate some of the discomfort and soreness around our shirt collars due to perspiration we were issued with scarves puggree, squares of light cloth, khaki coloured.
I was ordered to blanco my equipment immediately in the approved khaki colour and had to treat my gas mask cover with the mandated blanco, Pickering's khaki-green No.
Gloves had not been issued either so we used our own and a right motley crew we looked when we appeared in public places, khaki uniforms, blue greatcoats, black boots and brown leather gloves.
Other unusual characters often come to mind when I recall those days; one lad arrived alone one morning wearing khaki but sporting an RAF pilot's wings on his chest.
To economise in footwear the army supplied knitted hose-tops, tubes, near khaki in colour that covered the socks just above the ankle while the tops were turned down just below the knee.
But the tall soldier did not enter; he merely pushed the boy inside the tent and dropped the khaki flap.
Sikhs and Ghurkas and Rajputs and Pathans and Gharwalis, the brown-skinned tribesmen in India, have been on a strange Odyssey, bringing picturesqueness to the khaki tone of modern war.
One, a big sergeant-major, towered over the others; he had the colours of the South African campaign on the breast of his worn khaki blouse and stood very straight as if on parade.
I was alone and in a rough tweed suit--a strange figure in that world of khaki and rifles.
You are at home there with Tommy Atkins, regular of an old line English regiment, in his heavy khaki overcoat and solid boots and wool puttees, a sturdy, hardened man of a terrific war.
It begins on the platform at Victoria Station, with the khaki of officers and men, returning from leave, relieved by the warmer colours of women who have come to say good-bye to those they love.
A khaki blouse torn open, or a trousers leg or a sleeve cut down the seam, revealing the white of the first aid and a splash of red, means one man wounded; and by the ones the thousands come.
The regiment went far over on the Marne, through towns with French names which he could not pronounce, this man in khaki with the French troopers.
His khaki is spotless, thanks to his wife, who has dressed in her best for the occasion.
Through half-drawn curtains there were glimpses of khaki tunics and Sam Brown belts in juxtaposition with silk blouses and coiled hair and white arms.
There was the long fleet of motor-ambulances as a reminder of the ultimate business of all those young men in khakiwhom I had seen drilling in the Embankment gardens and shouldering their way down the Strand.
Therefore as civilians in khaki we were hardly better than spies.
Our flying scouts, however low they flew, risking the Archies and machine-gun bullets, often mistook khaki for field gray, and came back with false reports which led to tragedy.
By way of dressing up we can leave off our khaki leggings and give our trousers an extra brushing all around.
He looked so frail in his khaki overcoat that she was seized with penitence for the harsh thoughts of him she had indulged, and with a fondling gesture tried to atone.
At last, when Sylvia was beginning to feel thoroughly miserable, there was a sound of voices in the corridor, and an English captain in much-stained khaki appeared in the entrance to the compartment.
Wagging the match, I did not notice the live head drop off on to the khaki slacks which I had donned that afternoon to grace a visit to the War Office.
I read the policy once, and as far as I remember there's nothing whatever about khaki slacks in it.
He had heavy, strong limbs in his khaki clothes, but his hand that held the spit was brown and tender and sensitive, a real Mediterranean hand.
Hasten the day, and save us from proletarian homogeneity and khaki all-alikeness.
The Italians look curiously rabbity in the grey-green uniform: just as our sand-colored khaki men look doggy.
Susie Billings, minus her khaki and cartridges, looked the picture of demureness in white muslin and baby-blue ribbons.
Once Susie Billings in her khaki suit and cowboy hat came to spend the day; and once, on Sunday, Mr. Jones came to hold service again.
At that moment a pretty young girl in khaki and a cowboy hat made her appearance astride a frisky little mustang.
Half a dozen boys who wore khaki uniforms, were chattering like so many magpies as they stood in a little group on an elevation overlooking the bustling Indiana town of Beverly.
That's going to be a big feather in our caps, believe me," Seth went on to say, as he took a glance down at his stained khaki trousers and leggins.
In fact, every one of the eight members of the Beaver Patrol wore a bronze medal on the left side of his khaki jacket.
Well, that was praise enough to make every fellow glow with satisfaction, and feel glad to know he wore the khaki that had won the sincere respect of this daring voyager of the skies.
How far must I haf dropped if dot pully oldt khaki cloth gives vay?
One of these was when we suddenly heard a shout of command in English and saw a body of men in khaki with Red Cross armlets suddenly run along the platform to an incoming train from the north with stretchers and drinking bottles.
True, the garment of khaki was like the jacket, but it was undoubtedly a petticoat.
Then began an opera bouffe charge; naked and begrimed Americans and men in khaki against naked and half-clothed representatives of a half a dozen races!
He walked into the heart of the city, and saw regiments of soldiers wearing the new khaki uniform, marching through the streets.
Soldiers wearing the khaki uniforms of Uncle Sam were everywhere, martial music filled the air with its shrill fifings and deep drum-beats, and there was a gleam of polished steel wherever the boys walked.
Then the door was opened softly and an arm clad inkhaki was thrust through the narrow opening.
There were just eight boys in khaki sprawled along that log in various favorite positions suggestive of comfort.
Perhaps the first thought of the alarmed tramps was that they were surrounded by a detachment of the militia, for the sight of those khaki suits must have stunned them.
Now, it might be he looked out, and glimpsing a bunch of fellows in khaki suits and carrying guns, running this way, he thought we were soldiers.
It was a pretty sight to see those five fellows in khaki begin to spread out in that systematic way, just as though each one might consider himself a part of a machine.
Imagine the consternation of the hobo campers when from behind concealing bushes they saw figures in khaki rise up, some of them bearing threatening guns.
He saw something in those steady eyes that convinced him the leader of these boys in khaki was not the one to be further trifled with.
There he lay, sprawled out, gasping for breath, and shedding gallons of water from his soaked khaki suit.
I caught a glimpse of their khaki lines this morning.
It was evident that Lord James Ivor knew what he was talking about, since, as far as John could see, the khakiarmy lay outspread on the turf.
So it is, but see if it isn't defaced by sixty or seventy thousand sunburnt men in khaki, the khaki often stained with blood.
Her khaki divided skirt came just below the knee, meeting a pair of high-heeled riding-boots.
Judith, in her short khaki suit, swept out of the cabin with a grace and dignity that would have done credit to a velvet train.
He ran to the wardrobe where John's clothes hung, and from the bottom of it dragged a khaki uniform.
There were no bridges over the streams," he went on, "and we had to break the ice and wade in, and then sleep in the open with the khakifrozen to us.
He wore the khaki uniform which he had worn in many campaigns.
One man I remember lying across a pony; I literally took him for a Frenchman, for his trousers were drenched red with blood, and not a patch of khaki showing.
A number of matey caps, check and khaki and indigo, then white wideawakes as though for haymaking, and a few pillbox-like creations in crimson and daffodil, made part of the splendour.
The mate complained of his khaki shorts; the second mate had had to bring out another blanket, although it was a sunny morning.
In her opinion any man in khaki is entitled to all the "sugar and spice and everything nice" the world can give.
A figure in khaki strode past the window, the dog leaping up on him and almost turning somersaults in his efforts to lick his face.
He did look so handsome and so dear and I was so proud of him in his khaki that there was nothing forced in the last smile I gave him.
This sector will be plowed by huge shells, and our brave boys in khaki will hold the German horde back.
A red-headed young Irishman in khaki stood at the gateway, or tramped up and down with his rifle on his shoulder.
A man inkhaki appeared from a clump of trees near the house, advancing his rifle.
He had not taken any pants to spare, having put on a strong pair of khaki work trousers, figuring correctly that they were more the thing for hitchhiking than his one good Sunday suit.
He bent down, removed the khaki work jacket the smaller of the two men was wearing, shrugged his own shoulders into it, felt in its pocket, pulled out a folded piece of paper, glanced at it.
