But the most singular part of the scene was a number of little boys, dressed in black and white, who all wore badges of the parties to which they belonged, and were provided with a syringe, and two canteens, one filled with rose-water, and the other with a black liquid, of a very offensive smell, the first of which they squirted at their favourite candidates and voters, and the last on those of the opposite party.

"I'm a first class scout, and I've got nine merit badges, and I'm a patrol leader," I told him.

And each upon his target bears Emblazoned badges, telling true Their passion and their torturing pangs, In many a dark and dismal hue.

" "Swims like an eel," Winton said; "why didn't they take him hiking, I wonder?" "Hanged if I know," Westy said; "he's going to win them the swimming badge, all right.

Bernard's call to repentance penetrated many a heart; people who had lived in all manner of crime were seen following this voice and flocking together in troops to receive the badge of the cross.

Throwing back his coat, he showed his badge.

I inquired of an officer near me, displaying my reporter's fire-line badge, more for its moral effect than in the hope of getting any real information in these days of enforced silence toward the press.

You may be ashamed to say so, for he's an honest fellow and a good fellow; and he begins to carry the very badge of good-fellowship upon his nose, that I do not doubt but in time he will prove as good a cup-companion as Robin Goodfellow himself.

He gave up his orchestral position to fight against Frederick the Great, and brought home a red badge of courage.

Lafayette took an active part in the popular movements in 1787, and in 1789 formed the National Guard and gave it the tricolor badge.

"I saw the badges on your vests.

Farms were untilled, enterprise deadened, invention crippled, education neglected; life was of little value; labor was the badge of servility, laziness the very badge and passport of gentility.

These veterans, or others wonderfully like them, still occupy their monkish dormitories and haunt the time-darkened corridors and galleries of the hospital, leading a life of old-fashioned comfort, wearing the old-fashioned cloaks, and burnishing the identical silver badges which the Earl of Leicester gave to the original twelve.

"Certainly," said Berkley, buying a badge and pinning it in his button-hole.

"I ain't thinking about that," I said, "I'm only thinking about how you did it, II don't want the signalling badge in my patrol now, honest I don't, Wig.

I followed her up to the platform, while they pinned a little badge on her, and every one laughed at me.

This apparently frivolous dispute was made the pretext for a serious quarrel; and the partisans of the nobles and those of the towns ranged themselves at either side, and assumed different badges of distinction.

The doctor at once removed the surgeon's badge from his hat and the sash from his waist, and took command of the guns.

Ceremony for accepting and dedicating badges.

We are obtruding our badges and ribbons, our soldier's dress without the soldier's spirit, our music, our ministers even,how they look, what they wear, what they dothey are all part of the wretched vulgarity of the modern spirit.

A number of the loyalists escaped in turmoil, putting badges in their hats like those worn by certain of the American militia, and thus passing in safety through the whig lines.

Its title, The Unclassed, excited a little curiosity, but the author was careful to explain that he had not in view the déclassés but rather those persons who live in a limbo external to society, and refuse the statistic badge.

He wore a short, full blue cloak, with a silver badge on the left breast, a tight-fitting cap of the same colour repeating the same badge, and from beneath his cloak in front hung a tunic, with enormous legs in tight blue hose and shoes moving underneath.

After using it as a designation for several years, he and others abandoned it from a growing dislike to anything resembling a badge or watchword of sectarian distinction.

Loyal cheers resounded from every part of the theatre, and the feelings excited became so fervid that some officers of the National Guard, who were among the guests, reversed their new tricolor cockade, and, displaying the white side outermost, seemed to have resumed the time-honored badge under which the army had reaped all its old glories.