He wore no gun -- a strange ommission for a peace officer in this country.

Above a dark green skirt she wore a pale green cashmere sweater with, as he soon perceived, no brassiere beneath.

He wore a brown knit sports shirt with no tie.

He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

Indeed, no richer humor is to be found in the whole of American literature than in the letters of the semi-literate men who wore the blue and the gray.

She wore a bathing suit like his mother's, no straps on the shouders.

) For seven seasons, the AL team wore dark blue stockings and had no official nickname.

The football club says, with no documentation, that Essendon wore red and black striped guernseys until 1875, when the red sash was adopted.

The average farmer-peasant hoplite typically wore no armour, carrying only a shield, a spear, and perhaps a helmet plus a secondary weapon.

Commanders wore red sashes, senior officers wore blue sashes, and most soldiers wore no sash at all.

As the 1950s wore on, Britain lost its place as a superpower and could no longer maintain its large Empire.

It is reported that to ensure no one wore a dress more than once to any ball or notably formal occasion, the Empress had her guards stamp each gown with special ink.

Men often wore beards, while women wore little or no makeup, with many going braless.

Like the mass of the nation, he grew more Protestant as time wore on ; he was happier to persecute Catholics than Puritans ; and he had no love for ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, European men wore their hair cropped no longer than shoulder-length, with very fashionable men wearing bangs or fringes.

However, there is no sound evidence that Edward ever wore black armour, although Harvey ( without citing a source ) refers to " some rather shadowy evidence that he was described in French as clad at the battle of Crecy " en armure noire en fer bruni "-in black armour of burnished steel ".

His simple origins became clear right after his election, when he wore a pectoral cross made of gilded metal on the day of his coronation and when his entourage was horrified, the new pope complained that he always wore it and that he had brought no other with him.

The poor state of the roads at this time, no more than dusty, rough tracks, meant that the copper wore quickly making the disc brake system non-viable ( as recorded in The Lanchester Legacy ).

Historian Michael Cannon claims that " In September 1855 she performed her erotic Spider Dance at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne, raising her skirts so high that the audience could see she wore no underclothing at all " ( actually a salacious and unfounded rumour ).

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

In fact, during embalming, the " head embalmer " wore an Anubis costume.

" He went out and saw an angel who wore a girdle with a cross, one resembling the holy Eskiem ( Tonsure or Schema ), and on his head was a head cover ( Kolansowa ).

Mail-clad warriors typically wore separate rigid helms over their mail coifs for head protection.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

The New York Giants for portions of the 1980s, carried from head coach Ray Perkins to Bill Parcells, wore white at home against the Cowboys but after a period of time stopped.

As goddess of the moon, however, Diana wore a long robe, sometimes with a veil covering her head.

In the Old Republic, Padawans usually wore a hair braid on the right side of their head which was removed with a lightsaber upon attaining knighthood.

Before 1929, the SS wore the same brown uniform as the SA, with the exception of a black tie and a black cap with a Totenkopf (" death's head ") skull and bones symbol on it.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

On the day of his triumph, the general wore regalia that identified him as near-divine or near-kingly, and a laurel wreath was held above his head.

The most celebrated segment of her stage act was the progressive shedding of her clothing until she wore just a jeweled Brassiere | bra and some ornaments over her arms and head

The most celebrated segment of her act was her progressive shedding of clothing until she wore just a jeweled bra and some ornaments over her arms and head.

During the assault on Minas Tirith, the leader of the Nine, the Witch-king of Angmar, cast back his hood to reveal a crown, but the head that wore it was invisible.

Some of the Puritans, but by no means all, wore their hair closely cropped round the head, and there was thus an obvious contrast between them and the men of courtly fashion with their long ringlets.

In Ireland men otherwise wore longish hair, and a shaved head was worn by slaves.

When a slave obtained his freedom he had his head shaved, and wore instead of his hair an undyed pileus ( πίλεον λευκόν, Diodorus Siculus Exc.

In Ancient Egyptian art, he was pictured as a falcon-headed or bull-headed man who wore the sun-disc, with two plumes on his head, the falcon representing the sky, and the bull representing strength and war.

He skinned a ram and cut off his head, then he held the head in front of himself, wore the fleece, and showed himself to Heracles like that.

The oldest known use of helmets was by Assyrian soldiers in 900BC, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from blunt object and sword blows and arrow strikes in combat.

In Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries gamekeepers, for head protection in fights against poachers, sometimes wore helmets ( perhaps more describable as thick bump caps ) made of straw bound together with cut bramble.

He used to take baths, he had his head very closely shaved, he polished his skin, he cleaned his nail, he had his hair cut as short as if it were turned on a lathe, and he wore linen underclothes and a snow-white shirt.