here he is!" he cried, bringing his big hand down heavily on his
epaulet. Vronsky looked round angrily, but his face lighted up immediately with his characteristic expression of genial and manly serenity.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn.
He returned to France with the
epaulet of sub-lieutenant, and as the protection of the general, who is in the highest favor, was accorded to him, he was a captain in 1823, during the Spanish war -- that is to say, at the time when Danglars made his early speculations.
To such a one He assigns a life in a general's
epaulets or as a privy councillor--to such a one, I say, He assigns a life of command; whereas to another one, He allots only a life of unmurmuring toil and suffering.
Prince Andrew, walking beside Bagration, could clearly distinguish their bandoliers, red
epaulets, and even their faces.
There was nothing to distinguish these Subordinate judges from the better part of the spectators, except gravity, which they affected a little more than common, and that one of their number was attired in an old-fashioned military coat, with skirts that reached no lower than the middle of his thighs, and bearing two little silver
epaulets, not half so big as a modern pair of shoulder-knots.
If you think it incredible that to imagine Lydgate as a man of family could cause thrills of satisfaction which had anything to do with the sense that she was in love with him, I will ask you to use your power of comparison a little more effectively, and consider whether red cloth and
epaulets have never had an influence of that sort.
A pen-stroke might demolish his civilian
epaulets, his place at court, his sinecure, his two offices and their advantages; in all, six salaries retained under fire of the law against pluralists.
His father told him of the wicked, rascally, shameful conduct of the bankrupt, reminded him of what he had said about Amelia, and that their connection was broken off for ever; and gave him that evening a good sum of money to pay for the new clothes and
epaulets in which he looked so well.
In my neighbourhood, Gen Buratai is endearingly feted with the
epaulet, ' terror of terrorists.'
The joint graduation, inauguration, and
epaulet granting ceremony, for cadets of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army Academies, was held this morning (Wednesday) with Ayatollah Khamenei - the Commander-in-Chief of armed forces - in attendance, at Imam Ali Officers' Academy.