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The drummers' buff sword-belts and drum slings were bordered with livery lace.
la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The drummers' buff sword-belts and drum slings were bordered with livery lace.
Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The captains gulped down their wine and rose, hitching at their sword-belts.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The captains gulped down their wine and rose, hitching at their sword-belts.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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But on the evening of the fifth day their hunger increased; they gnawed their sword-belts, and the little sponges which bordered the bottom of their helmets.
Salammbo 2003
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There were Mongols — of middle height, with black hair plaited into pigtails, which hung down their back; round faces, swarthy complexions, lively deep-set eyes, scanty beards — dressed in blue nankeen trimmed with black plush, sword-belts of leather with silver buckles, coats gayly braided, and silk caps edged with fur and three ribbons fluttering behind.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Only on ceremonial occasions do the guards wear sword-belts.
The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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A red glow shone on the heaped treasure, on the eyes and teeth of the warriors, their worked sword-belts and polished arms.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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Their broad breasts and shoulders, sleekly oiled, shone russet in the rosy light; their wide leather drawers stood stiffly out from the thigh, making their lean waists, pulled in with the thick rolled sword-belts, look slenderer still.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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Frodo gave way; and Gandalf, as if he were their esquire, knelt and girt the sword-belts about them, and then rising he set circlets of silver upon their heads.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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