crossbelts

I have the blue coats, red facings and white pants and crossbelts all blocked in .

Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007

Tom, a little wretch whom he had cut over the back with a hockey-stick last quarter — and there he was in the centre of the square, rallying round the flag of his country, surrounded by bayonets, crossbelts, and scarlet, the band blowing trumpets and banging cymbals — talking familiarly to immense warriors with tufts to their chins and

The History of Pendennis 2006

For a moment he was sure it had to be a British or a Portuguese company, but then he saw the blue coats and white crossbelts, saw the epaulettes, and saw that some of the men wore short sabres and he knew they were the French.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

These were regular soldiers, not militia, and their white crossbelts showed against pale-blue coats.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

Over the tunic he wore two crossbelts and an ordinary belt from which hung a bayonet and a cartridge pouch.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

Sharpe had already undone his crossbelts and was shrugging off the wool coat, grunting with the pain that the exertion gave to his back.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

There was no pipeclay here to be caked onto crossbelts and musket slings, no blackball to be used on boots and no grease and powder to be slathered on the hair.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

Their crossbelts were black and their turbans and waist sashes crimson.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

From a distance the red squares looked smart, for the men's red coats were bright scarlet and slashed with white crossbelts, but in truth the troops were filthy and sweating.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

As Ryba belted on the crossbelts, Huldran turned to Nylan.

Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996