Worn symbol of support

Usage examples of armband.

On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.

It was interesting, though, that although the warriors did not wear their armor here, they did retain their iron neckpieces and armbands, and sometimes added a browband as well.

There was much TV footage, some of it network, of WHS girls black felt armbands decorated with red hearts in support of John Heart, their sleeves decorated with red sequin hearts.

Anthony Sellars, with his armbanded group people who are theoretically merely qualified first-aiders who can be called upon in any public emergency, but which we know are the core of the army he is raising against us.

There were more drawers full of underwear, sweaters, ties, tiepins and cufflinks, even a few elastic armbands.

The Hevelius-Platz, to which the little street led, was blocked off by SS Home Guards standing about in groups: youngsters and grown men with the armbands and rifles of the security police.

People with red-cross armbands appeared carrying stretchers with bloodied bodies on them.

The eager-eyed priest was already reaching into another heap of armbands and anklets, seeking out something else that had caught his eye.

Now he was a liberal Democrat and wore black armbands in support of radical causes.

Let rich chains be looped on his neck and jeweled armbands bind his wrists!

In some of the baskets and hanging from pegs were carved ivory armbands and bracelets, and necklaces of animal teeth, freshwater mollusc shells, seashells, cylindrical lime tubes, natural and colored ivory beads and pendants, and prominent among them, amber.

As an assistant foreman to Sammy Mutterperl, with the armband of a Vorarbeiter, a leading worker, he eats and sleeps better than most Auschwitz inmates, though wretchedly enough.

From the ladies' girdles and chatelaines, harnessed with silver and gilt, hung keys and purses and little knives in pretty sheaths to match the armbands, brooches, and jeweled pins of these human peacocks.

Murdo filled his gaze with the glimmering objects: cups and bowls, plates and platters, armbands and bracelets, bejewelled chests and chalices, caskets, and boxes, necklaces, diadem, and chains of all kinds in heavy gold and fine silver.

He, like Altamont, was wearing a black armband, and plainly the loss of his fiancée had hit him hard.