The shako was the main stumbling-block. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
“Here is his shako,” added the young police agent. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference
Rogers waited as the Sergeant retrieved Sharpe's shako. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
He remembered to retrieve his shako from the hall table. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
The Captain had a gold-edged shako tucked under one arm. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
He brushed his jacket down and politedly took off his shako. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
Sharpe took off his shako and pushed a hand through his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
He took off his shako to let the small breeze cool his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
The young officer, his hand to his shako, ran up to his superior. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Pendleton, the youngest of the Riflemen, brought Sharpe his shako. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
The man fell, and his shako was ludicrously stuck on Harper's sabre. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
He bashed out a dent in his shako as Hagman nodded towards the keep. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, then pulled his shako back on. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
Sharpe took off his shako and ran a hand through his newly cut hair. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
He lifted off the tiny black-peaked shako and saw black hair beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
Sharpe took off his shako, propped his rifle against the wall, and sat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
The huge Irishman pushed his shako back and scratched at his sandy hair. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
He bent down and picked up his Light Company shako, then nodded to Sharpe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
Clayton pulled his shako straight and muttered a few curses at the Sergeant. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
In 1843 the first "Albert shako" had appeared, and Leech, in a cartoon called. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Rain thrashed the rocks, poured down the cliff's face and drummed on his shako. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
He took off his shako and used his sleeve to wipe the dust and sweat from his face. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
Green took off his shako and wiped the sweat from his bald head with a scrap of rag. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
The shako had a tall white plume that shivered as Marquinez offered Sharpe a low bow. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
She drummed on his shako top, beating with the band sound, and beamed at her friends. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Harper pulled his battered shako low over his eyes and nodded towards the galloping man. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
The shako tumbled from its precarious perch, and hung ignobly suspended by the cap-lines. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The rain seethed down, smashed on his back, dripped from his hair and shako on to her face. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Gold]
A tolerably large fragment of one of these knocked off my shako and killed a mail beside me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Sharpe borrowed a shako from one of the troopers and used its flat round top as a writing desk. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
The officer had a red plume on his blue shako and a tall red collar on his unbuttoned blue coat. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
He wore an unfastened cloak, wide breeches hanging down in creases, and a crumpled shako on the back of his head. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
The Atlantian was dressed in a heavy coat of seal fur with a tall Russian-style cap on his head, like a shako without the visor. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
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