bandolier

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I gave one my almost-empty bandolier, and another my haversack, telling him it contained three letters for the post, and -- if necessary, to post them.

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  • He watched her open the door, clumsy, tilting against the weight of a movie camera and cassettes and a leather belt of batteries or whatever, which looked like a bandolier of M16 clips. —  Hard News
  • But he also wore a bandolier, oiled supple leather against his shirt; his greasy hair lay lank against his shoulders. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • A rope and grapnel were looped around her shoulder like a bandolier, and she set the two rubber-sheathed hooks on the guttering, over a bracket where the thin metal would be strong enough to bear her weight. —  Map.html
  • He came with it, attached by his left arm in the loops and by the leather guige attached to the shield that ran over one shoulder like a bandolier. —  Map.html
  • Then she went back outside, setting the shield's bandolier-like guige strap around her neck. —  Map.html
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