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accoutre
1. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop
2. So thick was the cover that the American officers knew nothing of the foiled charge, though I followed the line of retreat later by the carcasses of accoutred horses, torn clothing and discarded equipment
3. All the accoutrements of picnicking had
4. Marion played Chopin reasonably well, was an interminable flirt, everybody was madly in love with her and she had wealthy relatives in the USA who sent her beautiful dresses, shoes, costume jewellery and all those accoutrements that can turn a plump, short-legged teenager into a devastatingly beautiful young woman
5. Yeah, the body was wrapped Egyptian-style but these accoutrements were African, a warrior, or maybe a witch doctor
6. and one accoutrements the magical set swore by
7. We watched them trot by, a company of the Emperor’s Hussars in their sharp, gaudy uniforms of blue wool, red accoutrements and silver buttons
8. It was still a bedroom, a modest one and from the state of the accoutrements, I was sure it held some lackey not the Lord or the Emperor’s son
9. The dining room at the Versailles Club was as elegantly appointed as the rest of the club, complete with velvet drapes with gold fringe and tiebacks, gold-rimmed china and flatware, high gilded ceilings with crystal chandeliers, ornate statues and lamps, plush armchairs, and all the accoutrements of luxury in a dining room
10. internal spaces with just the right accoutrements
11. accompanied the accoutrements of their positions that set them apart
12. have all the accoutrements that come with being human
13. Have you detailed their accoutrements?’’
14. The foreign accoutrements of the newcomers made Humbert, the senior merchant of the group, curious about them and he shouted in Occitan at them
15. Ingrid’s head snapped around towards the door and she then felt indecision: should she answer it in her present accoutrement or should she ask her visitor to wait or come back later? She finally decided to go see who it was as a second series of knocks resonated
16. The more freedoms you have the more you can own others by purchasing their freedom – DOU's silver chains of mortgage, loan and credit for necessity and its many manacling life-robbing accoutrements
17. Reaching for the basket of sex accoutrements, she
18. Protest as theater turns the occupied streets and squares into paramilitary sets designed to maze the anger led crowd into a labyrinth of Quixotic flailing at movable barriers and arbitrary Kafkaesque laws complete with all the movie accoutrements of oppression
19. “Is IT's research interest in 'Why not love?' the reason IT's newest accoutrement is a Gaga-skin covered No-Z Coma Dream Barbie?” data-relayed Ima
20. experience points accumulated, levels attained, accoutrements acquired
21. He thought game; he thought credits; he thought transaction and, with arms outstretched and palms upturned, he awaited the dispersal of whatever the appropriate game accoutrements might be
22. ” Regina started fussing with my wedding gown and veil, and all the accoutrements I’d have need of in the morning
23. about the rest of the accoutrements: hats and gloves, goggles and
24. ---the rest of the accoutrements are in the umpteen pockets
25. inner layers and all the accoutrements consolidated in a gear bag
26. the accoutrements that go along with it
27. “Strap up now daisies and Jim Carey’s or you’ll have to tell Lucy bye-bye!” Called out an officer, whose closely inset eyes seemed to confirm the mental instability that he was even now manifesting along with the accoutrements of his leering smile and sing-songy voice
28. The new recruits, even boys, the old men show them how to wear their accoutrements, they buckle the straps carefully,
29. I embarked at Alicante, reached Genoa after a prosperous voyage, and proceeded thence to Milan, where I provided myself with arms and a few soldier's accoutrements; thence it was my intention to go and take service in Piedmont, but as I was already on the road to Alessandria della Paglia, I learned that the great Duke of Alva was on his way to Flanders
30. But he was very much deceived in this conclusion, for daylight had hardly begun to appear when there came up to the inn four men on horseback, well equipped and accoutred, with firelocks across their saddle-bows
31. features, and an expression between grave and gay; and his dress and accoutrements showed him to be a man of good condition
32. necessary foods and accoutrements needed for the Passover
33. The anxious and laborious Rat at once resumed his preparations, and started running between his four little heaps, muttering, 'Here's-a-belt-for-the-Rat, here's-a-belt-for-the Mole, here's-a-belt-for-the-Toad, here's-a-belt-for-the-Badger!' and so on, with every fresh accoutrement he produced, to which there seemed really no end; so the Mole drew his arm through Toad's, led him out into the open air, shoved him into a wicker chair, and made him tell him all his adventures from beginning to end, which Toad was only too willing to do
34. He being, therefore, thus accoutred, walketh out with his friends to the gate, and there he asked the porter if he saw any pilgrims pass by
35. Strange to relate, thisludicrous accoutrement was far from moving me to laughter
36. He alluded himself quite openly to the current story how once, during some campaign (when in command of a brigade), he had gambled away his horses, pistols, and accoutrements, to the very epaulettes, playing monte with his colonels the night before the battle
37. She had occasionally caught glimpses of these men in girlhood, looking over hedges, or peeping through bushes, and pointing their guns, strangely accoutred, a bloodthirsty light in their eyes
38. While slowly breasting this ascent Tess became conscious of footsteps behind her, and turning she saw approaching that well-known form—so strangely accoutred as the Methodist—the one personage in all the world she wished not to encounter alone on this side of the grave
39. And then there was the matter of properties—accoutrements
40. He also affected gorgeous Clothes, Hats trimm’d with silver Lace, embroider’d Waistcoats, Boots of gilded Leather, and all the most dandyish Accoutrements—French Snuff-Boxes, Silver-hiked Swords, damascen’d Pistols with pearl Handles
41. The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss
42. Their accoutrements were horribly incongruous; nothing is more funereal than the harlequin in
43. The anxious and laborious Rat at once resumed his preparations, and started running between his four little heaps, muttering, 'Here's-a-belt-for-the-Rat, here's-a-belt-for-the-Mole, here's-a-belt-for-the-Toad, here's-a-belt-for-the-Badger!' and so on, with every fresh accoutrement he produced, to which there seemed really no end; so the Mole drew his arm through Toad's, led him out into the open air, shoved him into a wicker chair, and made him tell him all his adventures from beginning to end, which Toad was only too willing to do
44. The Cossacks were mounted; the infantry and artillery, with our single gun, were accoutred ready for the march
45. But who among us are these evil men, from the violence and attacks of whom the state and its army save us? If three, four centuries ago, when men boasted of their military art and their accoutrements, when it was considered a virtue to kill men, there existed such men, there are none now, for no men of the present time use or carry weapons, and all, professing the rules of philanthropy and of compassion for their neighbours, wish the same as we,—the possibility of a calm and peaceful life
46. Durning were appointed to command them, and were to accompany them to the city of Washington, where they were to receive clothing and accoutrements, and thence to New Orleans
47. But they have this miserable consolation, that they are to receive six dollars and two-thirds a month for their services, finding their own clothes, arms and accoutrements
