"Dress uniform" Quotes from Famous Books
... commissioned officers is worn on the shoulder-knot of the full dress uniform and on the collar of ... — A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... direct from a station and duties where full-dress uniform, lavish expenditure for kid gloves, bouquets, and Lubin's extracts were matters of daily fact, it must be admitted that the sensations he experienced on seeing his detachment equipped for the scout were those of mild consternation. That much latitude as to ... — Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... himself, that although he saw the major only for a moment and had never seen him again since, he remembered the minutest details of the costume which he had been wearing fourteen months previously, and which was the full-dress uniform. When the talk fell upon the death to which Sand was to submit at so early an age, the major pitied him; but Sand answered, with a smile, "There is only one difference between you and me, major; it is that I shall die far my convictions, and you will ... — Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... when he stabbed himself, that although he saw the major only for a moment and had never seen him again since, he remembered the minutest details of the costume which he had been wearing fourteen months previously, and which was the full-dress uniform. When the talk fell upon the death to which Sand was to submit at so early an age, the major pitied him; but Sand answered, with a smile, "There is only one difference between you and me, major; it is that I shall die far my convictions, and you will die ... — Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... there was a dress uniform, specially tailored for a physician in the Blue Service of Diagnosis, the insignia woven into the cloth with gold and platinum thread. Reluctantly he turned away from it, a luxury he could never dream of affording. For Tiger, ... — Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse |