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Updated: June 18, 2025
The Llama monks present a very impressive appearance at their evening service, with their long gowns crossed over, and their high caps like ancient Roman casques. In construction, the Confucian Temple, near by, is similar to all Confucian temples throughout China; the hall is eighty-four feet long and the teakwood pillars forty feet high.
Tradition demanded that they cover themselves with the ceremonial garments, their winter dress serving to shut them up as it were in casques of mourning. They wept and perspired inside their wraps, and as each recognized a relative whom he had not seen for several days, his grief burst forth anew.
He, American that he was, felt heartsick, humiliated, at the sight of the spiked casques and armoured horsemen, trampling the meadows of the province that he loved the province of Lorraine.
The gates of the palace were thrown wide and a splendid mounted corps rode forth amidst a flare of torches white plumes of rejoicing waving from their casques white banners raised high on the points of their lances while the herald, in full armor with vizor up, bore proudly before the people the silken banner with the arms of Cyprus blazoned upon it the white, royal banner of a Prince of Galilee.
The news was of the most depressing sort. The wounded could give you only the story of their part of the line, and you heard over and over again, "Nous avons reculés." A detachment of cavalry was at hand; their casques and dark-blue mantles gave them a crusading air.
"And in the middle of all that our silhouettes of carbines, casques and sacs. "Absolute silence. "We stop we advance and suddenly in the dawn which has begun, we arrive at our destination the execution ground. "'Cannoniers halte! Couvres sur deux. A droite alignement." "A rattle of arms. And there in front of us, at hardly fifteen yards, we catch sight of the post.
Some of these summer dresses were made of coarse vadmal of a gray or blackish color; others were blue. Most were in a ragged state, or patched having when new been used as Sunday clothes. The men wore square caps of red or blue flannel, and the women had extraordinary looking head-gear resembling casques of dragoons, on account of the wooden frame under the cloth. These were also red or blue.
Her mother first instructed her how to arm Edgar, and then herself buckled on Albert's harness. Their swords were girt on, and the casques added last of all. "They look two proper esquires, wife," the knight said; "and as we ride to-morrow I shall make but a sorry show beside them."
The enemy's cavalry was spreading out in a great fan, with outposts of Uhlans riding into villages where old French peasants had not dreamed of being near the line of battle until, raising their heads from potato fields or staring across the stacked corn, they had seen the pointed casques and the flash of the sun on German carbines.
At early dawn, on the Sabbath, that hallowed day, enjoined to be held sacred for the worship of God, and for rest to toil-worn animals the British army beheld the chevaleresque legions of the enemy, in all its superior numbers, ranged in order of battle on the rising ground. The sun at mid-day flashed its brilliant radiance over their military casques and arms.
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