Some of its members removed their helmets and the sweat of their brows, some re-fastened bootlaces and putties or unfastened restraining hooks and buttons.
All who can, to wear rubber-soled shoes, others to go barefoot or bandage their boots with putties over cardboard or paper.
Their putties were not soaked and not caked; say, rather, that there may have been a core of puttie inside, but that the men's legs were embedded in a serpentine cast of clay.
Only these last day's there has sprung up a little patch of white tents a quarter of a mile from the station, and about them move men in putties and khaki.
An hour after dark four sorry objects, stark-naked save for their vests, and with putties bound round their feet to replace their boots, staggered into camp.
Some of them had no pouches or water-bottles or overcoats, while others had to stick their bayonets in their putties or tie them to their belts with string.
In civil life the men wear loose shirts belted round the waist, cloth putties on the legs, and, in summer, shoes of plaited straw on the feet.
She is conscious of the rottenness of putting on a khaki tunic, and winding khaki putties round and round her legs to hang about the Hospital doing nothing.
I haven't got to wind khaki putties round my legs for nothing.
Beyond splashing his putties and giving himself a pain in the hinges of his back, he accomplished little.
Weldon glanced from the wooden bucket to the soaked wrists and splashed putties of his companion.
His face was unusually animated, that day, and his trim new uniform and his carefully-wound putties added inches to his height and showed his lithe, lean figure at its very best.
After entering Szechuan I was usually accompanied by quite real soldiers, men of the new service, fairly shipshape in khaki and putties and carrying up-to-date guns.
Their uniform was of dark blue woollen set off by putties of a lighter blue, and their appearance was decidedly shipshape.
She was comely enough in her spiral putties and her tanned boots as she sat, her small round chin on the hand whose arm was supported by a knee.
His putties were put on beautifully: not a false fold or a bad line anywhere.
I suppose you would like me to be like Popper in Salisbury--always after the men to see if they've got their putties on straight, and whether they're taking Epsom salts and saying their prayers regularly.
The putties were immaculately entwined around his legs--in short the tout ensemble was decidedly smart and soldier-like.
Some blundered into holes and were rescued by grasping the unwound putties of their comrades.
The Dewetsdorp prisoners, too, had been set loose, and began to stumble and stagger back to their countrymen, their boots worn off, and their putties wrapped round their bleeding feet.
On every march quite a number of men, who had no boots, had to be carried on wagons, and I have often seen men walking along with no boots at all, merely their puttiestwisted round their feet.
Some more serviceable equipment was got from the Mounted Infantry, but, when the detachment moved out on February 9th in charge of a convoy, many of the men were using blankets as saddles, and looped putties as stirrups.
I have an idea to use putties to secure our wind trousers to the finnesko.
Still we wait: the picketing lines must be gathered up, a few pony putties need adjustment, a party has been slow striking their tent.
We are away, sliding easily and smoothly through the water, but burning coal--8 tons in 24 hours reported 8 P.
I don't like letting fires go out with these bergs about.
As we were not supposed to remove even our putties except for bathing, or washing clothes, the pool was soon working overtime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "putties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
