Michaela and I each filled four, with an additional one devoted to aiguillettes strips of back meat rolled with excess foie chunks like pigs in a blanket. ❋ Mark Caro (2009)
Aside from deveining and cutting away the trouble spots, Gilles and Danie were deeming which livers were worthy of being preserved wholethe equivalent of grade Aand which should be used for pt, aiguillettes, galantine or magret slices wrapped around foie gras. ❋ Mark Caro (2009)
I started with la salade de cèpes à l'ail aux aiguillettes de pintadeau tièdes. ❋ Etienne (2007)
Commander-inchief of all these busbys, pelisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The mute glittering ranks of veterans were full of bright contrasting colors, thanks to their different uniforms, weapons, accoutrements, and aiguillettes; and the whole great picture, that miniature battlefield before the combat, was framed by the majestic towering walls of the Tuileries, which officers and men seemed to rival in their immobility. ❋ Unknown (2007)
"What they are doing, " a dragoon Major resplendent in aiguillettes and gold braid remarked, -is shooting at our sentries with six-pound shots. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
He wore a plain dark-blue uniform with no badges of rank, but Pierre Ducos needed no gaudy chains or stars, no tassels or epaulettes or aiguillettes to signify his authority. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1995)
A group of officers had appeared there, their aiguillettes and epaulettes a dark gold in the wintry light, and in their midst were the chasseur in his red pelisse, and the civilian in his black coat and white boots. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1988)
Price of gold thread, difficulty with one of the home workers, questions of aiguillettes, sword belts, sashes, grenades; hopes that the King would shortly issue a new order concerning officers 'uniforms. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
On these occasions he wore his dress uniform, cocked hat, aiguillettes, sabre and spurs. ❋ David Widger (N/A)
On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder. ❋ Unknown (1919)
First came what was called the coupé, with windows at the sides and a large window in front from which we looked out past the coachman's red-stockinged legs and along the horses 'backs to where the postilion jounced merrily against the sky in a red Breton costume like the coachman's, his long hair tied behind with black ribbon, a red jockey's cap on his head, and black shoulder-knots with jet aiguillettes. ❋ Unknown (1919)
The gendarmes -- who, by the way, were always to be found where the fighting was hottest -- were the most unsuitably uniformed of all, for the blue coats and silver aiguillettes and towering bearskins which served to impress the simple country-folk made splendid targets for the German marksmen. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The point is to keep the game in that condition to the end; then you will have done more for your promotion than if you were outside with the others, beneath those torrents of water which drown the horizon, soiling your natty uniform, tarnishing the gold of your aiguillettes, awaiting orders which do not come. ❋ Unknown (1917)
A big blonde captain, who was wearing a stunning bunch of gilt aiguillettes, looked as if be would snap my head off when I trotted up and whisked his partner away from him. ❋ Unknown (1899)
He tried to stop the horses; two strange-looking soldiers, wearing glossy shakos and white-and-blue aiguillettes, began to bawl at him; a group of peasants before the cottages fled, screaming. ❋ Unknown (1899)
