carnassieres

Updated: June 22, 2025

Women have from all time accepted the theory that a uniform makes a man courageous. "They had to abandon the guns," he went on, "soon after quitting Moscow. The horses were starving. There was a steep hill, and the guns were left at the bottom. Then I began to be afraid. There were some marching with candelabras on their backs and nothing in their carnassieres.

Henry Seton Merriman - Barlasch of the Guard