field-grey

Guards in field-grey uniforms observe abject, grovelling victims.

Jasmin Vardimon Company: 7734 – review Luke Jennings 2010

But there was nothing to see on the German side but half a dozen sentries in the field-grey I had hunted at Loos.

Greenmantle 2005

How I "took" about sixty prisoners-that is, discovered my great relief that the crowd of field-grey figures who suddenly appeared from nowhere, all had their hands up-is not telling, save as a joke.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

We went straight to the village headquarters, where there were several officers spotlessly dressed in blue or field-grey, against which my tramp-like appearance formed a strange contrast.

'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight

An outpost in Italian field-grey uniform, not men of the Italian type, but stocky, fair-haired and square-jawed, their collars decorated with red and white tabs.

From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

The general was still looking at him, and so they stood for a moment which seemed an eternity to Yakob, the man in the field-grey uniform who looked as if he had been sculptured in stone, and the quailing, shrunken, shivering form, covered with dirt and rags.

Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

I had just got off the train at the rail-road station in Brussels and was making my way through the crowds of milling people when I saw a German soldier, in field-grey uniform, walking along the platform towards me.

OVER THE RAINBOW 1943

They wore field-grey uniforms with open collars and patch pockets, with a winged eagle broidered on the right breast.

Pied Piper Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1942

Up a shallow and winding stair, along a long and broad corridor, hung with rich tapestries, the polished parquet glistening faintly in the dim light, through splendid suites of gilded apartments with old pictures and splendid furniture ... here a lackey with powdered hair yawning on a landing, there a sentry in field-grey immobile before a door ...

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

A giant trooper in field-grey with a curious silver gorget suspended round his neck by a chain paced up and down the passage, his jackboots making no sound upon the soft, thick carpet with which the floor was covered.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914