| This helmet plaque, with the remains of a tricolour cockade and an imperial eagle upon it, must be that of someone who fought at Borodino. |
| The tri-coloured cockade pinned on the Alsatian black bow adds a strong patriotic meaning to a painting that avoids grandiloquence and anecdote. |
| And then he looked at the sash and the cockade, and hesitated, apparently at a loss. |
| In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade neither of Jacobite white nor of Hanoverian black. |
| A leather cockade, however, survived in the headgear of many liveried coachmen and chauffeurs. |
| And am I really to become a midshipman, and wear a cockade in my hat, and a dirk by my side? |
