Would she have him fire off real guns, and have his hair cut, and his whiskers shaved, and his eyes turned right and left, and his trousers pipeclayed? |
The dye also ran, but as long as your crossbelts were pipeclayed and hair powdered, who cared if you were dressed in a fetching shade of pink? |
Bayonets fixed, they moved forward in dressed ranks as if on parade, presenting irresistible targets in their red tunics, and webbing pipeclayed to a shining white. |