The young man let fall his shako from his hand, and laid it on his sword-hilt.
The shako tumbled from its precarious perch, and hung ignobly suspended by the cap-lines.
Outside stood Dawson, stamping with vexation, and endeavouring to undo the complex machinery which had hitherto secured his shako in an erect position.
At last the idea struck us of employing the five or six yards of gold cord that had so puzzled us, in securing shako and plume in a perpendicular position.
At last we did release him, and he entered the room with a look most appropriately crest-fallen, shako in hand, solacing himself by displaying its glories as well as could be effected by judicious changes of its position.
One of these, in its explosion, knocked off myshako and killed a man beside me.
I knew the military superstition which believes that the axiom "non bis in idem" is as applicable to the battlefield as to the courts of justice, I replaced my shakowith a swagger.
Throwing his rifle into the other hand, Geordie lifted his shako in courteous salutation.
About twenty of my little playfellows were following me, when suddenly a soldier's shako fell at my feet.
His shako came down to my eyes, and was only prevented by my ears, which were bent over, from covering my face.
I bowed and went out, looking at the sentry's shako as I did so, which bore the number 53.
As I was returning home I met Bixio on the Pont des Tuileries; he was clad in a blue military coat with red epaulettes and forage cap and had a ball of red horsehair on his shako with stripes of red down his trousers.
He took off his shako and ran his hand through his mop of red hair.
He sprang up with a loud oath, and knocked my shakooff my head.
The only hitch was they had such hard work to find a shako big enough, for, as you know, I'm well off for head.
He tells me, to do it, I've only got to go with him at a certain time with a Boche greatcoat and a shako that he'll have for me.
I sall take your vord for any ting else in de large vorld, mi Capitain; but I see someting glance behind dat rampart, parapet you call, dat look dem like de shako of de infanterie legere of dat willain de Emperor Napoleon.
The count made a fine-looking officer, with the crimson shako on his head, his mantle flung over one shoulder, his saber in his hand.
The shako was ornamented in front with a white death's-head, and one would not have believed that a skull could be so ornamental.
They wear a black tunic and breeches, and a sort of shako much like that of the Swiss army.
In the field this shako is replaced by a large felt hat looped up on one side, and the rest of the costume undergoes any modification that suggests itself to the wearer.
He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head.
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired.
In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose.
He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other.
On that very meadow he had ridden over the day before, a soldier was lying athwart the rows of scented hay, with his head thrown awkwardly back and his shako off.
The Corporal's shako was riddled, and his clothes were torn in all directions, but nothing had touched his body save one bullet, which cut off the forefinger of his right hand.
Their sharpshooters, too, were on the alert, and if a man chanced to show the top of his shako above the earthworks, several bullets went through it instantly.
As the sergeant rushed to get close under the wall of it, a bullet sent his shako whizzing; but still he ran on, and came bareheaded to the foot of the breach.
But of a sudden he, too, sat upright, drew down the peak of his shakoto shade his eyes, and drawing his pipe from his mouth, jerked the stem of it to indicate a figure slowly crossing a rise of the sandhills between them and the estuary.
The vulture-plumes on the dark blue shako nodded as he turned his face to her.
Shako was at her feet upon the great musk-ox rug, which her father had got on one of his hunting trips in the Athabasca country years ago.
So she talked to herself and to Shako when she was alone.
Yes; couldn't help it, when he was carrying you, bent down like he was, with that queer shako of his.
The hat was a high-decked shakoof glossy material.
The hat was a shako surmounted by a large dark plume.
He ran home like a crazy man, threw his sword and his shako on the floor, hid himself in the hay-loft, and wept.
Oh, with what joy did he put his "fixings" into his shako and take leave of his corporal!
Through the corporal's intervention, he obtained a furlough for four days, and permission to go in full uniform, with hisshako on his head and his sword at his side.
My scabbard was polished like silver, the steel front on my shako shone like a mirror, and the tinsel lace of my jacket had undergone a process of scrubbing and cleaning that threatened its very existence.
Had I run on for a few more minutes in the dark, I should have butted my shako against the wall.
I had taken the panache from my shako so that it might escape notice, but even with my fine overcoat I feared that sooner or later my uniform would betray me.
I searched here and searched there, until at last I chanced to find myself in front of a mirror, where I stood with my eyes staring and my jaw as far dropped as the chin-strap of my shako would allow.
My word, I gave such a start that my shako nearly broke its chin-strap!
Into the centre of the room I strode, my sabre clanking, my shako under my arm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shako" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
