Some crawled flat on their faces as far as the crest of the curve of the bridge, taking care that their shakos did not project beyond it.
I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion.
There is a far-extended clapping of hands, like the babble of waves, and companies of foot run in disorder towards high ground to behold the spectacle, waving their shakos on their bayonets.
They sing, shout, fling their shakos in the air and repeat words from the proclamation, their steel and brass flashing in the sun.
Notwithstanding the pressure which was exercised, although the regiments deposited their votes in the shakos of their colonels, the army voted "No" in many districts of France and Algeria.
The bayonets and the brass ornaments on the shakos sparkled there.
What a splendid force that massive column, conspicuous by their scarlet shoulder-knots and tall shakos of black bearskin!
And, true enough, the tallshakos peered through the blue cloud.
I took refuge in Brussels; well, what should I see one morning, but the tall shakos of your grenadiers coming up the steep street.
And think then of the rolling thunder of the eighteen-pounders shaking these old mountains, and the long, clattering crash of the platoon following after, and the dark shakostowering above the smoke!
I distinguished the shakos of the fifth line regiment and the colors of the sixth legion.
Some crawled on their stomachs to the top of the pitch of the bridge, while careful not to let their shakospass beyond it.
They had left their shakosin their cell when they started.
The major then ordered his soldiers to take off their coats, and to leave their shakos behind them.
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines.
In among the hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar.
The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.
Handless swords and headless shakos flew around him in the air and whithersoever his horse turned its head, an empty space gaped before him, every antagonist retreating before him.
Shakos are waved on the points of the bayonets, and always, always that cry: "Vive l'Empereur!
I shall see all my life long the pale-faced, long-mustached hussars, the straps of their shakostight under their jaws, whose horses reared and neighed as they dashed over the heaps of dead and wounded.
At last the long line ended; I saw knapsacks and shakos disappear behind the hill, and I lay down to sleep forever, when once more I was aroused by the rolling of five or six pieces of artillery along the road.
As we were re-forming behind Brenier's division, eighteen thousand veterans of the Prussian guard charged up the hill, carrying the shakos of our killed on their bayonets in token of victory.
The rain was falling, and ran from our shakos down our necks; the wind shook the poplars, and their yellow leaves, fluttering around us, told of the approach of winter.
The men raised their shakos on their bayonets and shouted: "Forward!
The heavyshakos and clumsy fatigue caps were replaced by a lighter and neater uniform hat, and a Kepi, after the French army style.
They looked well on parade in their striking uniforms--dark blue coats with facings and sky-blue trousers, white cross and waist belts, epaulettes and black shakos with blue pompons and brass chin straps.
They had exchanged their crimson shakos in the dense forest for the French helmets, and wrapped themselves in the blue mantles taken from the luggage-wagons.
In a second the order was obeyed; the crimson shakos with their grim death-heads were donned, and the troop dashed forward upon the escort accompanying the coach.
It was found that the red coats and shakos of the soldiers were not the most suitable garments for Bush warfare, and, to the distress of the old soldiers of the leather stock and pipeclay school, the men fought in blue jumpers and forage-caps.
A stream of men in uniform, by their square crowned shakos and other insignia, recognisable as Lancers.
There was some buttoning of jackets, stocks to be adjusted round shirtless necks, with shakos to be searched for inside the guard-house, and hurriedly clapped on.
Grave, white-haired generals waved their shakos in the air.
What struck you on entering was the number of shakos hanging on the pegs.
Shakos waved, shoulders were snatched and hugged, blue képis and red were knocked awry, beards were kissed and mad tears let flow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shakos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
