He was clad in his full white and yellow uniform, as to receive his guests within, except that the
sash or scarf had been unbound and lay rather crumpled by his side.
"You are fourteen; and we consider ourselves young ladies at that age," continued Fanny, surveying, with complacency, the pile of hair on the top of her head, with a fringe of fuzz round her forehead, and a wavy lock streaming down her back; likewise, her scarlet-and-black suit, with its big
sash, little pannier, bright buttons, points, rosettes, and, heaven knows what.
Glancing at the wall beyond, there might have been espied, hanging on their several pegs, a cap and feather, broadsword,
sash, and coat of scarlet; which any man learned in such matters would have known from their make and pattern to be the uniform of a serjeant in the Royal East London Volunteers.
When I'm old enough to earn money, I'm going to have a dress like this leaf, all ruby color--thin, you know, with a sweeping train and ruffly, curly edges; then I think I'll have a brown
sash like the trunk of the tree, and where could I be green?
Here is a bronzed Moor in a prodigious white turban, curiously embroidered jacket, gold and crimson
sash, of many folds, wrapped round and round his waist, trousers that only come a little below his knee and yet have twenty yards of stuff in them, ornamented scimitar, bare shins, stockingless feet, yellow slippers, and gun of preposterous length--a mere soldier!--I thought he was the Emperor at least.
When, just before entering the ballroom, the princess, her mother, tried to turn right side out of the ribbon of her
sash, Kitty had drawn back a little.
He raised the
sash and listened again--still silence.
A soft silken
sash is much fitter for a pretty child like you than a plated harness like this; and I've got no end of Italian scarfs and Turkish
sashes among my traps.
By way of helping on the preparations for the departure, and showing that she too could be useful at a moment so critical, this poor soul had taken up a
sash of George's from the drawers whereon it lay, and followed him to and fro with the
sash in her hand, looking on mutely as his packing proceeded.
At that moment Count Rostopchin with his protruding chin and alert eyes, wearing the uniform of a general with
sash over his shoulder, entered the room, stepping briskly to the front of the crowd of gentry.
Upon examining the other window, a similar nail was seen similarly fitted in it; and a vigorous attempt to raise this
sash, failed also.
Tom soon found himself tormented with a desire to drink and swear; the desire grew to be so intense that nothing but the hope of a chance to dis- play himself in his red
sash kept him from withdrawing from the order.