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n. (plural of uniform English)

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I must answer in the negative, and I hope that you too, you who are not inmates of mental hospitals, will regard me as nothing more than an eccentric who, for private and what is more esthetic reasons, though to be sure the advice of Bebra my mentor had something to do with it, rejected the cut and color of the uniforms, the rhythm and tone of the music normally played on rostrums, and therefore drummed up a bit of protest on an instrument that was a mere toy.

Where almost everyone, particularly the facers and handlers and the others who thought of themselves as rank and file, hated and feared the military and the uniformed security with a finely honed venom that was reinforced by every murder and atrocity, the ten without uniforms enjoyed a perverse popularity.

Only when the uniforms had become staggering dots, vanishing in the dusk between the telegraph poles, did my grandmother arise, slowly and painfully as though she had struck root and now, drawing earth and fibers along with her, were tearing herself out of the ground.

But according to the uniforms, this Koljaiczek had nothing to do with bricks, but was short and stocky.

After saying all this, my grandmother heaved a gentle sigh, but it was enough of a sigh to make the uniforms ask what there was to sigh about.

But in the midst of chewing, the uniforms remembered their uniforms, dashed a little way out into the field along the furze bordering the lane, and scared up a hare which, however, turned out not to be Koljaiczek.

I can easily imagine that the buttons on all uniforms are so constituted that the last to be counted always means Verdun, the Hartmannsweilerkopf, or some little river, perhaps the Somme or the Marne.

Down the lane leading through the crowd to the rostrum, I dimly saw uniforms approaching in the distance.

Now they wore uniforms and black ties and they no longer made soup out of brick flour.

The ladies, too, wore field-grey tailored into traveling uniforms which were not very becoming.

Everything here was the same mushroom gray as the uniforms of their guards.

It was here that the confrontation over uniforms had reached the point where Deakin had to be summoned.

There was a sizeable clique of the overdone, comic opera uniforms in among them, and now he discovered that they smoked top-grade cigars.

There were guns all over the common room, more of the mushroom uniforms with the red and yellow tabs.

Women in uniforms, women in coveralls, women in bright civilian casuals, women in little more than their underwear.