"He only had a blue and red epaulet on his white drill tunic, there was no red cross on his arm."

Her husband, however, had nothing to complain of, for one fine morning he picked up the stars of his epaulets in some sacristy or other.

A man who was a stranger to the Assembly, in uniform, wearing the epaulet of a superior officer and a sword by his side.

There'll be all the more shoes for those who haven't any, and epaulets for the ambitious fellows who know how to read.

As a farewell token he presented me with an epaulet from an officer he had killed, and a pin from a German woman spy he had captured.

It returned the epaulets to Poindexter's shoulder with the addition of a double star, carried him triumphantly to the front, and left him, at the end of a summer's day and a hard-won fight, sorely wounded, at the door of a Blue Grass farmhouse.