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  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Only … his hands fanned on my bare lower back and tilted my strong, silver-laced, satin-clad pelvic bones against his.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • "Everyone's scared here," says Qassem Ali, the owner of a shop that sells colorful, silver-laced women's garments in Peshawar's Ladies Market, where another bomb went off Saturday.

    Taliban's Reign of Fear Spreads in Pakistani City 2009

  • The first movie had nice weaponry such as UV and silver nitrate rounds for guns and those cool silver-laced shurikens.

    Movie Review: Underworld: Evolution Peter 2006

  • She heard it over and over as she followed the crooked path through the silken air and the silver-laced trees.

    Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007

  • I had at the least twelve suits of clothes; three richly embroidered with gold, two laced with silver, a garnet-coloured velvet pelisse lined with sable; one of French grey, silver-laced, and lined with chinchilla.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • She struggled, and seemed to be in agonies of grief; and on being lifted in, and the gentleman going in after her, she screamed out for help; and he observed in the struggling, that she had on, under her cloak, a silver-laced habit

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

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