Meanwhile men with the white brassard and the red Geneva cross were busy out in the open, lending succor to the Russian wounded.

" Another diary, after the sacking of a place, gives a detailed account of the distribution thus: "460 francs for the first lieutenant, 390 francs for the second lieutenant, etc...." (3) Doctor thieves: At Choisy-au-Bac, two army doctors, wearing their brassards, personally sacked the house of a family named Binder.

Is the M.L.O. down there, and is the "A.M.L.O." brassard but the modesty of true greatness?

All three of them had Red Cross brassards on the sleeves of their coats.

Then we have brassards or arm-guards; the rere-brace for the upper arm, the vam-brace for the lower, and the elbow-piece called a "coudiere.

There were the vasquines or rollers which encircled the waist and extended the folds of the petticoats, thus giving additional smallness to the waist; the brassards-à-chevrons or metallic braces for expanding the sleeves; and the affiquet of pearls or diamonds coquettishly attached to the left breast, and entitled the assassin.

Every morning he would travel up to the City, and every evening he would return to Ramstairs, not to the carpet slippers and the comforts of home, but to the brassard and the rigorous routine of the drill-hall.

The Gauls, sighting the A.P.M. brassard, promptly dumped the hut and dived through a wire fence.

Le pied presse le pied; l'île à leurs noirs assauts Tressaille au loin; l'acier mord le fer; des morceaux De heaume et de haubert, sans que pas un s'émeuve, Sautent à chaque instant dans l'herbe et dans le fleuve; Leurs brassards sont rayés de longs filets de sang Qui coule de leur crâne et dans leurs yeux descend.

One by one the cuirass and shoulder-pieces, the greaves and gauntlets, the gorget and brassards, the joints of which were so beautifully burnished that they shone as mirrors, and so flexible that every limb had its free use, enveloped those manly forms.