Use uniform in a sentence
Sentences starting with uniform
- Uniform and reliable is the custom of this country; to-day one way, to-morrow another, is the Italian habit. [10]
Sentences ending with uniform
- Rostov had not yet had time to get his uniform. [2]
- And yet it would be better to be a soldier, a man who could use the sword as well as the pen, a poet in uniform. [4]
- I didn't mean to come in here--I just wanted to see what you looked like in your uniform. [9]
- He must not think to divert us from our purpose by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weapons are not entirely perfect and uniform. [7]
- When these walked, they ran, and they wore a blue uniform. [9]
- She rushed to the window in mortal fear, and looked down into the palace-yard; at that same instant the door of the great banqueting-hall was flung open, and a flying crowd streamed out in distracted confusion--then another, and a third--all troops in King Philometor's uniform. [10]
- General McCulloch has taken me on his staff, and promised me a uniform. [9]
- He charges, in substance, that I invite a war of sections; that I propose all the local institutions of the different States shall become consolidated and uniform. [7]
- Sometimes, however, he seemed to her oversanguine; though he had worked hard, his success had come too easily, had been too uniform. [9]
- Although a brisk sea was on, the wind had been steady from that quarter all night, and the motion was uniform. [9]
Sentences containing uniform two or more times
- Adraksin was in uniform, and whether as a result of the uniform or from some other cause Pierre saw before him quite a different man. [2]
- We could recognize the Emperor and Empress; Prince Albert in huzzar uniform, with a green plume in his cap; and the Prince Imperial, in cap and the uniform of a lieutenant, on horseback in front; while the Princess occupied a carriage behind them. [4]
- It begins to dawn upon me, now, that possibly, what I have been taking for uniform ugliness in the galleries may be uniform beauty after all. [5]
- He says I am in favor of making all the States of this Union uniform in all their internal regulations; that in all their domestic concerns I am in favor of making them entirely uniform. [7]
More example sentences with the word uniform in them
- If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
- And go along with you... go," and he continued to put on the uniform the valet handed him. [2]
- Two officers, one with a scarf over his uniform and mounted on a lean, dark-gray horse, the other in an overcoat and on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka Street, talking. [2]
- His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the "true prince," this --scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty--he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. [5]
- We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
- I wondered mightily what tailor had thrust this garment upon him; its fashion was of the old king's time, the cuffs slashed like a sea-officer's uniform, and the shoulders made carefully round. [9]
- Satan said they were the worst he had seen; and when he touched them and made them alive, it was just ridiculous the way they acted, on account of their legs not being of uniform lengths. [5]
- Ma says there were 10 hearses, with the fire companies (their engines in mourning--firemen in uniform,) the various benevolent societies in uniform and mourning, and a multitude of citizens and strangers, forming, altogether, a procession of 30,000 persons! [5]
- A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling. [11]
- And for once we saw an officer of the Louisiana Regiment resplendent in a uniform that might have served at court. [9]
- When General Sickles was minister to Spain, he always wore, when on official duty, the dress uniform of a major-general. [5]
- The Grand Duke was dressed in the handsome and showy uniform of a Cossack officer. [5]
- His bright uniform was creased and soiled and muddy, his face unshaven, and dark rings of weariness under his eyes. [9]
- When General Grant visited foreign courts, he went handsomely and properly ablaze in the uniform of a full general, and was introduced by diplomatic survivals of his own Presidential Administration. [5]
- Then I stole up to my room, put on my brother's uniform, and came down to meet Voban near the citadel, as we had arranged. [11]
- Berg, closely buttoned up in his new uniform, sat beside his wife explaining to her that one always could and should be acquainted with people above one, because only then does one get satisfaction from acquaintances. [2]
- It is the unjustness of civilization that it sets up uniform and artificial standards for all persons. [4]
- In undress naval uniform, with a dirk, and holding his cap under his arm, he handed Kutuzov a garrison report and the keys of the town. [2]
- Donning his court uniform, M. de Beausset ordered a box he had brought for the Emperor to be carried before him and entered the first compartment of Napoleon's tent, where he began opening the box while conversing with Napoleon's aides-de-camp who surrounded him. [2]
- He was in uniform, his face perspiring in the creases, his plump calves stretching his white stockings to the full. [9]
- You've earned your uniform, and it suits you. [11]
- Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
- He wore the uniform of a Union sergeant,--dusty and splotched and torn. [9]
- These notes, prepared under the supervision of proper officers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. [7]
- Anatole, with uniform unbuttoned, walked to and fro from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the study to the room behind, where his French valet and others were packing the last of his things. [2]
- Pierre was there too, buttoned up since early morning in a nobleman's uniform that had become too tight for him. [2]
- The rise is tolerably uniform down to Natchez (three hundred and sixty miles above the mouth)--about fifty feet. [5]
- They have restored to the Coliseum the gilding, the rich upholstery and the uniform magnificence which old Coliseum frequenters tell us Rome was so proud of fifty years ago. [5]
- Wilhelm, who, according to his friend's advice, appeared in the uniform of an ensign of the city-guards, seated himself at the empty board just after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. [10]
- It is easy to find fault with it for uniform respectability and occasional dulness. [6]
- Boris' uniform, spurs, tie, and the way his hair was brushed were all comme il faut and in the latest fashion. [2]
- Wriggling my way through the people, I had barely reached the gate when I saw Monsieur Vigo and the priest, three Creole gentlemen in uniform, and several others coming out of the door. [9]
- The fawns of this species are of a uniform pale yellowish-brown. [1]
- Every sentence that this master has produced may be likened to a perfect set of teeth, white, uniform, beautiful. [5]
- In the window there was the uniform of an officer of the time of Wellington, and beside it--the leather coat and fur cap of a trapper of the Hudson's Bay Company! [11]
- The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
- Peter sat at the writing-table in full official uniform, with his hat still on his head. [10]
- Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns. [4]
- Prince Andrew, in the white uniform of a cavalry colonel, wearing stockings and dancing shoes, stood looking animated and bright in the front row of the circle not far from the Rostovs. [2]
- They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village. [2]
- His transformation in the uniform, which had seemed so natural. [9]
- It is like the uniform to the soldier or the veil to the nun--a sign of separation and devotion. [4]
- A general, wearing the uniform of the army of the United States, surrendered the whole state of Texas. [9]
- It referred to the uniform and inevitable fine of forty shillings and costs for uttering a party cry--and it is no economical fine for a poor man, either, by the way. [5]
- Shamefully he remembered the time, five months agone, when he had worn the very uniform of his Revolutionary ancestor. [9]
- In spite of the severe frost some hundred generals and staff officers in full parade uniform stood in front of the castle, as well as a guard of honor of the Semenov regiment. [2]
- The recommendation of the Secretary for an organization of the militia upon a uniform basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious attention of Congress. [7]
- During successive periods, the same organism might in this manner acquire successive modifications, which would be transmitted in a nearly uniform state as long as the exciting causes remained the same and there was free intercrossing. [1]
- But look at the records of the life-insurance offices, and see how uniform is the action of nature's destroying agencies. [6]
- In the turnpikes, the railways, the depots, and the new boulevards of uniform houses in Florence and other cities here, I see the genius of Louis Napoleon, or rather, I see the works of that statesman imitated. [5]
- Take note of the ragged uniform of the rebel army he carries, and then think of him 'en petite maitre', with his cabriolet and his chestnuts. [9]
- A minute later the old man's large stout figure in full-dress uniform, his chest covered with orders and a scarf drawn round his stomach, waddled out into the porch. [2]
- Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined his handsome face. [2]
- Over him hovered the ghost of Washington in warning attitude, and in the background a troop of shadowy soldiers in Continental uniform were limping with shoeless, bandaged feet through a driving snow-storm. [5]
- When he saw the first hussar with the unbuttoned uniform of his regiment, when he recognized red-haired Dementyev and saw the picket ropes of the roan horses, when Lavrushka gleefully shouted to his master, "The count has come! [2]
- Next day, overtaking the army, he went in a carriage to the Niemen, and, changing into a Polish uniform, he drove to the riverbank in order to select a place for the crossing. [2]
- Everybody is in the army, everybody is in the navy, everybody is in the public service, standing around in a uniform, with nothing whatever to do, nothing to eat, and nobody to till the fields--" "Look at Germany; look at Italy. [5]
- We may argue that such a man is a disturber of trade, of legitimate operations, of the fairest speculations, but when we see how uniform he is as a phenomenon, we begin to be convinced that he is somehow indispensable to the system itself. [4]
- His uniform was that of a general of the Empire. [11]
- The trouble was that every thing in it and about it was on such a scale of uniform vastness that there were no contrasts to judge by--none but the people, and I had not noticed them. [5]
- This is a tedious process; but, by fastening the joints in this way, a uniform spring is secured in the rod. [4]
- Just then a tall handsome man in a fine uniform was passing by and I knew he must be the station-master--and that reminded me of my letter. [5]
- Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars that divide the beautiful landscape like the squares of a checker-board are set with line and plummet, and their uniform height determined with a spirit level. [5]
- It was a splendid morning; not a cloud dimmed the sky which spread high above desert, mountain, and oasis, like an arched tent of uniform deep-blue silk. [10]
- I have grown so in height that I knew an old uniform of my brothers would fit me, and I had it ready--small sword and all," she added, with a sad sort of humour, touching the weapon at her side. [11]
- The border States, so called, were not uniform in their action, some of them being almost for the Union, while in others--as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas--the Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silenced. [7]
- Mr. Astley, the showman, being informed of his Lordship's intention, met us on Westminster Bridge dressed in his uniform as sergeant major of the Royal Light Dragoons and mounted on a white charger. [9]
- Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, glanced at Berg with a smile. [2]
- The Drawer has seen hundreds of citizens in a body, going about the country on an excursion, parading through town after town, with no other distinction of dress than a uniform high white hat, who carried joy and delight wherever they went. [4]
- The world never saw such a spectacle before, so vast a territory informed with one uniform spirit of energy and progress, and people tumbling into it from all the world, eager for the fair field and free opportunity. [4]
- Suddenly on the road at the top of the high ground, artillery and troops in blue uniform were seen. [2]
- He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. [2]
- We do not regret our old, yellow fangs and snags and tushes after we have worn nice, fresh, uniform store teeth a while. [5]
- And Honora was reclining on the hall sofa, reading about Mr. Ibbetson and his duchess, when she perceived the postman's grey uniform and smiling face on the far side of the screen door. [9]
- He liked to read of war, of encounters with the Indians, of any kind of wholesale killing in glittering uniform, to the noise of the terribly exciting fife and drum, which maddened the combatants and drowned the cries of the wounded. [4]
- But before he reached them Pierre stopped beside a very handsome, dark man of middle height, and in a white uniform, who stood by a window talking to a tall man wearing stars and a ribbon. [2]
- Who would not rather wear his decorations beneath his uniform than on it? [6]
- Citizen was the proper term now,--Citizen General Wilkinson when that magnate came to town, resplendent in his brigadier's uniform. [9]
- I think my principle holds good; give uniform, give responsibility--under European surveillance of course--get British civilisation. [11]
- He is a poor knight, one Sir Richard Mowbray, of Leicester, called at Court and elsewhere Happy Dick Mowbray, for they do say a happier and braver heart never wore the King's uniform. [11]
- At first sight, Pfuel, in his ill-made uniform of a Russian general, which fitted him badly like a fancy costume, seemed familiar to Prince Andrew, though he saw him now for the first time. [2]
- He wore no overcoat, and the uniform fitting close to his figure, the broad-brimmed campaign hat of felt served to bring into relief the physical characteristics of the American Anglo-Saxon, of the individualist who became the fighting pioneer. [9]
- You were captured out of uniform You know enough of war to appreciate the risk you ran. [9]
- But as with our domesticated animals, a cross-breed can certainly be fixed and made uniform by careful selection (51. [1]
- Presently the steamers opened fire, to encourage the besieged, who replied with frenzied shouts of joy, and soon there poured upon the sands hundreds of men in the uniform of the Effendina. [11]
- On the nearest one sat a Tartar, probably a Cossack, judging by the uniform thrown down beside him. [2]
- They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor Alexander's Guards," said the first one, indicating a Russian officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. [2]
- This soft look on his face was not all assumed; for the ancient uniform of the sergeant touched something in him, the true comedian, or the true Napoleon, and it seemed as if he might dismount and take the old soldier in his arms. [11]
- A feeble; attenuated old man, who wore the Rebel uniform, if such it could be called, stood by without showing any sign of intelligence. [6]
- To the young officers who were soiling their uniform with the grease of saws, whose only fighting was against fever and water snakes, the news of an expedition into the Vicksburg side of the river was hailed with caps in the air. [9]
- A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt. [2]
- It is composed of young ladies who dress in a uniform costume, and go through the infantry drill, with broom in place of musket. [5]
- At the end of the room sat General Sherman, his uniform, as always, a trifle awry. [9]
- In the uniform of the Preobrazhensk regiment--white chamois-leather breeches and high boots--and wearing a star Rostov did not know (it was that of the Legion d'honneur), the monarch came out into the porch, putting on his gloves and carrying his hat under his arm. [2]
- The free intercrossing of the many individuals belonging to the same species would ultimately tend to make any change of colour, thus induced, uniform in character. [1]
- There are none of the great gorges and awful abysses of the White Mountains, both valleys and mountains here being more uniform in outline. [4]
- Others again spoke of the battle of Salamanca, which was described by Crosart, a newly arrived Frenchman in a Spanish uniform. [2]
- Dead, uniform color of surface and surrounding atmosphere. [6]
- A large crowd of militiamen and domestics were moving toward her, and in their midst several men were supporting by the armpits and dragging along a little old man in a uniform and decorations. [2]
- An unexplained residuum of change must be left to the assumed uniform action of those unknown agencies, which occasionally induce strongly marked and abrupt deviations of structure in our domestic productions. [1]
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