field-gray

Perhaps the most dramatic section in the book describes the abduction of Frenesi and other activists – in "field-gray trucks, locked shut, unmarked" – from a rebellious 60s campus to a secret old military base in a concealed California valley.

Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010

In the doorway to one of those apartment blocks, a tall, thin man in the field-gray tunic and trousers of theWehrmacht was kissing and feeling up a blond woman whose overalls said she was a factory worker.

Counting Up, Counting Down Turtledove, Harry 2002

I can still remember the gory bandages around heads and arms, and our own field-gray uniforms, and the prewar blue tunics and red trousers of the French, all stained with blood and mud.

Commandant of Auschwitz Hoess, Rudolf 1951

Crowds gazed upon the bulletin boards and tried to picture the steady advance of German field-gray through the streets of Liège, asked their neighbors what were these French 75's, and endeavored to locate Mons and Verdun on inadequate maps.

Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924

This glorious day came, and the field-gray armies marched forth, and the Pauline-Lutheran God marched with them.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

Everything about him proclaimed the fact that he was a German, even to his field-gray uniform, and he knew it.

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

Madame Carpentier told me of the first terror of the people when the field-gray men came down the Street of the Three Pebbles and entered their shops.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Those field-gray men had to wade through a Slough of Despond to get to their line, and at night by Hooge where the lines were close together -- only

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

German bombers who endeavored to keep them out, and again and again they kept at bay a tide of field-gray men, who swarmed up the communication trenches, by a series of explosions which blew many of them to bits as bomb after bomb was hurled into their mass.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Dawn, breaking slowly through the mist and smoke, showed three bodies in field-gray hanging grotesquely over the torn wire.

Lest We Forget. No Author 1919