Caught bird bearing a little vertical stripe

Usage examples of chevron.

When he came to the Castalia Invincibles, he picked Caudell out by his chevrons, handed him a length of iron with a curved and flattened end.

Jondalar came over to them and lowered himself carefully to the grass mat beside Ayla while he balanced with both hands a watertight but handleless and somewhat flexible cup, woven out of bear grass in a chevron design of contrasting colors, filled with hot mint tea.

Gabriel Perea and the Virgin while covering the latest fire at the Chevron refinery in El Paso.

With his visor down, his face could not be seen, but his surcoat was dark green with a yellow crest of rearing stags, and his cloak was chevroned in strips of dark and pale fur.

Zim had tried out all of the older men as temporary non-coms first and I had inherited a brassard with chevrons on it a couple of days before when our squad leader had folded up and gone to hospital.

After I got my chevrons I simply had to get things straight with Ace, because Jelly kept me on as assistant section leader.

Like boot chevrons, this is an uncomfortable honor, but in less than two days my own call came.

And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage, Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.

The outer wall was only the height of a tall man, but a circle of stone pillars supported the sloping roof, carved with spirals and triple knots, chevrons and wound about with twisted bands of colour.

The patterns incorporated not only chevrons but triangles, zigzags, rhomboids, and right-angled spirals, in both blue and red.

Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.

I wished that I were back in the drop room of the Rog, with not too many chevrons and an after-chow bull session in full swing.

Here's your room assignment, here's a checkoff list you start withand you can start by cutting off those chevrons.

These boot chevrons didn't mean muchmostly the privilege of being chewed out for whatever your squad did as well as for what you did yourselfand they could vanish as quickly as they appeared.

Several recruits resigned that evening and I thought about it but didn't because I had those silly boot chevrons and hadn't been busted yet.