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Updated: May 29, 2025
Soldiers wore field glasses that way; hunters, when they carried them instead of spyglasses, wore them en bandoulière. He spoke, however, of other matters in his gentle, thoughtful voice avoiding always any mention of politics and war chatted on pleasantly with the familiarity and insouciance of old acquaintance.
Wayland, resting on his crutches, unslung his ducks, laid them on the table, smoothed their beautiful heads and breasts, then slipped the soaking bandoulière of his gun from his shoulder and placed the dripping piece against the chimney corner.
Somewhat singular is her costume, as the equipment. As already said, she bestrides her mustang man-fashion, the mode of Mexico; while a light fowling-piece, suspended en bandouliere, hangs down behind her back. A woollen seraph of finest wool lies scarf-like across her left shoulder, half concealing a velveteen vest or spencer, close-buttoned over the rounded hemispheres of her bosom.
On every side crowded the teams, where the low mutter of the wounded rose from the foul straw; on every side pressed the red-legged infantry, rifles en bandoulière, shrunken, faded caps pushed back from thin, sick faces. "My soldiers!" murmured Lorraine, sitting up straight. "Oh, the pity of it! the pity!" An officer passed, followed by a bugler. He glanced vacantly at Jack, then at Lorraine.
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