For one thing, it was a change to slip out of uniform; for another, his uniform badly needed renewal.
Her officers still wore the uniform of the Imperial Russian Navy; her crew, alert, blonde-featured men, were quick to obey the orders given by their superiors.
E's an officer, sir," reported one of the men, pointing to the discarded uniform of the Imperial German Navy.
The western towers are built each of six stages: each of the two upper tiers contains two two-light windows, while below there is a large four-light window uniform with the windows of the aisles.
To make it meet these tasks a uniform public-school system based on standard requirements should be established throughout the country by the Federal, state, and local governments closely co-operating with one another for this purpose.
Sometimes a noisy braggart from the country side would demand an audience; and sometimes an officer in his Majesty's uniform would arrive as an honoured guest.
In the middle of the open space was a table, and at it three chairs, in which sat his honour, another gentleman, and a choleric-looking man in the uniform of a captain of horse.
Sometimes the emperor attires himself in the uniform of a colonel of the Hussar regiment which he commanded at the time of his accession to the throne.
Her favorite garb of this kind is the uniform of the second regiment of Pomeranian Cuirassiers, one of the oldest and most celebrated corps of cavalry of the Prussian army.
In fact, it is no flattery to Emperor William to declare that his appearance in this uniform invariably suggests "Lohengrin.
Frederick feared that the too familiar blue Prussian uniform might awaken unpleasant memories on the part of the emperor and his court.
Phil and Tony both agreed, for the men walking about in uniform with forage-caps on did look smart and well dressed.
A given kind of rock subjected to the action of frost and the other disintegrating forces operative at high levels, usually breaks up into debris of a roughly uniform average size.
Thus the large uniform winter covering breaks up into islands and stripes of white.
The Zermatt mountain area is probably best to be differentiated from the other great Alpine groups by the almost uniform magnificence and relative equality of its chief peaks.
Let me die," said he, "in this old uniform in which I fought so many battles for my country.
The old uniform in which he had fought his battles, and which he wore on the day he escaped to the Vulture, had been carefully kept during all these years of disgrace.
Subsequent evidence before the Senate committee showed that the mine had been exploded by men who wore the uniform of Spain.
All their clothes are of one uniform shape, not varied by any new styles.
The women and girls always wear their hair in one uniform style.
The English critics are unanimous in their praise of the truth and uniform consistency of his characters, of his heartrending pathos, and his comic wit.
This verse, in variety and metrical signification, is greatly inferior to the English and German rhymeless iambic, from its uniformfeminine termination, and from there being merely an accentuation in Italian, without any syllabic measure.
He is so uniformin the motives that he employs, that when we have read one of his pieces with a tolerable degree of attention we know all of them.
Hence in the Italian opera buffa, the action is altogether neglected; and along with its grotesque caricatures, it is distinguished for uniform situations, which admit not of dramatic progress.
The only alteration consists in a more commodious distribution, and here and there in additions, where the limits of the time prevented me from handling many matters with uniform minuteness.
Over this pass armies have continued to advance and to retreat with one uniform result: if the army is a large one, it is starved out of the country; if it is a small one, it is destroyed.
Surrounded by kneeling aids-de-camp, he alone stood up, in the rich uniform of a general of division, seeming the perfection of military elegance and dignity.
On this question a fairly uniform standard of feeling will be found from the sixth century to the thirteenth.
Sees in Beowulf the uniform expression of the early Anglo-Saxon Christian ideal.
The girls would go upstairs for a brief season of rest before changing their checked gingham mid-day uniform for the black gown and white apron which constituted the regalia for the evening meal, known, of course, as "supper.
He felt her gaze take in the uniform of blue, felt the stroke of mental dislike for the uniform--a dislike which he knew existed, but which he could not fathom.
Dressed in the full uniform of a captain, he looked the picture of the young army officer of the United States, though lacking any of the arrogance which might come from the purely military life.
The two dresses were exactly alike, except that Catalina's was tied at the wrists with lilac ribbons, whilst nothing broke the uniform blackness of her sister's garb.
The uniformof the regiment to which I formerly belonged.
With this on the top of a flagstaff, and his father's uniform on his back, Comtois feels himself invincible.
I looked, and sees a midshipman in uniform like the rest, and so it was.
He reflected for a few moments; then walked up to the corpse, turned it over, and opened the breast of the uniform to obtain the letter.
He had taken off his white uniform and was dressed in his street clothes.
That gentleman, in donning the uniform of the expert, had resumed an appearance of professional gravity.
The shining metallic cloth of her briefuniform rustled in the silence.
Guards, in deference to hisuniform insignia, stood aside at his approach.
He himself had a great difficulty in getting accepted, and the venerable man in uniform had to go out of the room several times to work the telegraph on his behalf.
The uniform brownness of the harrowed field glowed with a rosy tinge, as though the powdered clods had sweated out in minute pearls of blood the toil of uncounted ploughmen.
On the whole, however, it may be assumed that the harder stones are the best for all methods, so long as their mass is entirely uniform and they are not marred, as is the case with many, with white dots and patches.
It must produce a uniform impression without weak spots or streaks.
Paper presses are needed both to obtain a uniform dampening of the paper as also to restore the proper flatness to the printed paper.
Usually the paper considered most excellent for copper-plate work is thick, tender, uniform paper, half-sized or not sized at all.
But it is very difficult to lay on strokes of uniform thickness with them.
The color must be one that permits itself to be wiped off clean, and the wiper must be very uniform and sharp.
For crayon work the stones must beuniform and hard.
Possibly, also, the bubbles caused by etching may help to produce this roughness by hindering the uniform action of the acid.
With a small ball or roller covered with fine cloth, roll or pat the stone till it has a very uniform tone.
If it is not absolutely uniform and well fitted to the stone, more power is needed.
After practice it will be possible to produce such fine and uniform dots as cannot possibly be produced by the pen.
It will then be susceptible of being laid beautifully uniform on the stone with the ink-roller like printing-ink.
When dressed in plain clothes, he looked like a gentleman certainly, but not a polished one; but in a uniform which became him perfectly, he was a very good-looking officer.
One was a fine handsome young man, in the uniform of a military officer; the other a young and beautiful girl, who lay nearly fainting in his arms.
When the young soldier awakened it was to find a new suit of citizen's clothes laid out upon a chair, his filthy, tattered old uniform destroyed, and a barber waiting to shave him.
He had returned to citizen's clothes, but the sight of the old uniform still thrilled him, and with the feeling of comradeship that it always inspired in him he stopped and waited for them to come up.
It is far better to soak the whole page, to secure uniform bleaching, and then, if necessary, retint the page to its former color, than to attempt to operate on part of a page only.
The only translation of al-Nafzawi bearing the Kama Shastra Society imprint, was issued in 1886, in white vellum, uniform with the other single volumes listed above with the title of The Perfumed Garden.
According to a writer in the Proceedings, the coin is uniform in thickness, and had never been hammered out by savages--"there are other tokens of the machine shop.
Or the regular and uniform would be that which has nothing external to disturb it.
Has the whole body of matter a uniform motion, or has each atom its own motion?
Johnston was a smaller man than Hardee, his uniform showed less care for appearances, his manner was quieter, but no one would for a moment fail to see that he was the commander.
