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At some distance from the cordon was the camp of the purveyors, the merchants who supplied the soldiers with all kinds of necessaries. Without a special permit no purveyor could pass the line of sentries and enter the camp. It happened that one of those purveyors excited the suspicion of Jacob. Without really knowing why, Jacob came to consider him a suspicious character.
We could also trace the outline of a portion of the cordon of forts twenty miles in length from Langston Harbour on the east to Stokes' Bay on the west.
He had always the cordon bleu outside, except at fetes, when he wore it inside, with eight or ten millions of precious stones attached. Rarely a fortnight passed that the King did not go to Saint-Germain, even after the death of King James the Second.
I went to six o'clock mass at Saint Severin, my parish, in the Virgin Chapel, under those pretty, but absurd columns that point toward heaven though frail as reeds-like us, poor sinners that we are." "Ah," said Madame Martin, "you are pious to-day." And she asked him whether he wore the cordon of the order which he was founding. He assumed a grave and penitent air.
Mose spurred his horse straight at him with a yell, and turned him back. "That's right," shouted Reynolds. Mose understood more of it than Reynolds realized. He took his place in the cordon, and aided in the work with very few blunders. The work was twofold in character.
The Cossacks began bustling about and talking. Two of them went to cut brushwood for a shelter, others strolled towards the cordon. Luke and Nazarka ran to get ready to go to the village. Half an hour later they were both on their way homewards, talking incessantly and almost running through the dense woods which separated the Terek from the village.
There were no corrals on the ranch which would accommodate such a body of animals, and thus the work had to be done in the open; but with the force at hand we threw a cordon around them, equal to a corral, and the cutting out to the four quarters commenced. The horses were gentle and handled easily. Forrest and I turned to and helped our old foreman cut out his remuda of the year before.
To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty, in short, enjoyments of every kind." A cordon bleu passed under the window. "That nobleman," said I, "is much more delighted with his cordon bleu than he would be with ten thousand of your pieces of metal."
Stealing silently along the bank of the stream on the night of the 4th of July, they crossed in boats which they seized at a farmhouse and arrived at the palisades wholly unobserved. Half of the force was stationed in the form of a cordon, so that no one might escape. The remainder followed Clark through an unguarded gateway into the village.
Then leaving the Museum, his Excellency went to promenade in the garden of the Tuileries, where he was soon followed by an immense crowd. On that day his Excellency bestowed on Prince de Benevento, in the name of his sovereign, the Grand Order of the Sun, a magnificent decoration consisting of a diamond sun attached to a cordon of red cloth covered with pearls.
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