How To Use Equipage In A Sentence

  • A complete, printed record of a Georgian officer's camp equipage has been preserved and gives a rare account of sixty-two effects.
  • That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand both for precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
  • If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • A large unwieldy cutter of home manufacture, the boards of which it was composed unplained and unpainted, with rope harness, and an undressed bull's hide by way of buffalo's, formed our equipage. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
  • It was also a thoroughfare for the gay equipages of the square, which passed through it daily on their way to and from the adjoining stables, thereby endangering the lives of precocious babies who could crawl, but could not walk away from home, as well as affording food for criticism and scandal, not to mention the leaving behind of a species of secondhand odour of gentility such as coachmen and footmen can give forth. Fighting the Flames
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  • However, despite the need for communications relief, which is forecast to become urgent by that time, the FAA insists that operator avionics equipage will be voluntary.
  • He was surprised at the general shabbiness of things, quite different from the equipage of the Vargas family. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Here the figures represent the epitome of gracious sobriety stylishly dressed and enjoying the ritual of afternoon tea served by a servant at a table set with all the tea equipage of a fashionable household.
  • Occasionally, he shot himself out of his equipage headforemost over the apron; and I saw him on one occasion deliver himself at the door of the Grove in this unintentional way — like coals. Great Expectations
  • Onslow had forestalled me, having cleared away the wreck off the starboard locker, restored the tablecloth to its proper position, and rearranged such portions of the table equipage as had not been smashed in the capsizal. The Castaways
  • There is a general keeping in this gorgeous equipage, which is highly creditable to the taste of the marchioness, for the marquis, "good easy man," (though a Bruce), he is too much engaged preserving his game at Ro-er-n park, and keeping up the game in St. St.phen's (where his influence is represented by no less than eight "sound men and true"), to attend to these trifling circumstances. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
  • As if the equipage were a great firework, and the mere sight of Pictures from Italy
  • real male preppies don't wear scent. i married and divorced one. but in a fantasy world they wear floris no. 89, roger et gallet bouquet imperial, hermès équipage and the original zegna. In Which I Am Being Preppy
  • The show is arranged according to form and function: lighting devices, dining wares, drinking vessels, coffee and tea equipage, household and personal accessories, and religious objects.
  • All those stately equipages were good, and the one that fell to us mounted the hill to our hotel by a grade so insinuating that the balkiest horse in Roman Holidays, and Others
  • Au moment où un vapeur allait partir, un Irlandais de l'équipage reçut l'ordre de haler un long câble qui trainait à l'arrière. French Conversation and Composition
  • They make up (a term unfortunately suggestive of transformation) hundreds of beds; they have equipages and 'night chamberlains;' '_On y parle français_;' '_Man spricht Deutsch_.' Some Private Views
  • Clothing and lodging, household furniture, and what is called equipage, are the principal objects of the greater part of those wants and fancies. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
  • That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand both for precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
  • She even wished to refuse him: – but Beech Park, the equipage, the servants, the bridal habiliment. Camilla
  • A little while ago her equipage was the most admired in the Bois, and great ladies condescended to copy her dress or her coiffure; but she has lost her splendour, and dismissed the rich admirer who supplied the fuel for its blaze, since she fell in love with Gustave Rameau. The Parisians — Complete
  • To the front of the composition is a young page serving tea from what is probably the earliest complete depiction of a tea table with all its attendant equipage.
  • But the idea of relinquishing those delightful amusements and flattering attentions, which wealth and equipage bestow, is painful. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
  • It is a remarkable success story in terms of trade, but the people who had most reason to feel thankful were the artisans and craftsmen commissioned to supply the attendant equipage.
  • Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
  • While the driver halted at Dartford to water his horses, she was smit with the appearance of some cheesecakes, which were presented by the landlady of the house, and having bargained for two or three, put her hand in her pocket, in order to pay for her purchase; but what was her astonishment, when, after having rummaged her equipage, she understood her whole fortune was lost! The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • In this equipage they made an excursion upon the country till they came near to the Vauguyon, which is the valley of Guyon, and to the spital, but could never find anybody to speak unto; whereupon they returned a little back, and took occasion to pass above the aforesaid hospital to try what intelligence they could come by in those parts. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Under the provisions of the official army regulations, Quartermaster General Myers and company were charged with ‘providing transportation for troops and all army stores, equipage, and supplies.’
  • I thought it best to leave the heavier equipage there, and try my own luck here - I did not wish to inconvenience anyone by awaking the whole household.
  • His purse, which was very dry at that moment , did not permit him any other equipage.
  • Amenzaga, lieutenant of the body-guard, and at the same time the ecuyer who had the control of her equipages. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
  • An idiosyncratic use of spacing and punctuation has been part of this writer's equipage for several books, but here she uses these devices more subtly; the use of colons and brackets no longer feels daring, but necessary.
  • But what can one expect from the unlicked cubs (pardon the term) sent abroad with only stature, to make them look like men, and equipage to attract respect, without one other qualification to enforce it? Pamela
  • The idea is to incorporate these nanomaterials and nanodevices into the future soldier's uniform, and associated equipage like helmets and gloves,’ Thomas said.
  • A two-wheeled vehicle, called a tartana, very much resembling a covered cart, was to be the travelling equipage of a young The Alhambra
  • Maithris also looked around in alarm at the clattering of armor and equipage and her ears went back at the sight of a squad of armed infantry making a beeline for us.
  • Mistress Betty promised to send her young friends sets of silk for their embroidery (and kept her word); she presented Prissy with her enamel snuff-box, bearing an exact representation of that ugly building of St. James's; and Fiddy with her "equipage" -- scissors, tablets, and all, chased and wreathed with tiny pastorals, shepherds reclining and piping on sylvan banks, and shepherds and shepherdesses dancing on velvet lawns. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
  • The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
  • A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France. Northanger Abbey
  • His dress was a tunic of black serge, which, like those commonly called hussar-cloaks, had an upper part, which covered the arms and fell down on the lower; a small scrip and bottle, which hung at his back, with a stout staff in his hand, completed his equipage. The Monastery
  • I have mentioned her mode of pronouncing the word equipage, which, together with several similar peculiarities that struck me as very odd, were borrowed from the usage of London good society in the days when she frequented it. Records of a Girlhood
  • A pillion was the grandest equipage, and a plain blue and white gown, with primly starched apron, was the common attire of the New England dames. A Brief History of the United States
  • Not surprisingly, the storage vessels for tea leaves, produced as part of the tea equipage, became more varied than ever before.
  • Lady Delacour was immediately ambitious to outshine her in equipage; and it was this paltry ambition that made her condescend to all the meanness of the transaction by which she obtained Miss Portman's draft, and Clarence Hervey's two hundred guineas. Belinda
  • His equipage was a wooden telyaga drawn by two powerful horses. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
  • This day Abdalla Khan waited on the prince with a gallant equipage, himself and servants being anticly apparelled, yet soldier-like, according to their fashion. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • ‘He is certainly a man of consequence,’ replied Katherine, her nose pressed right up against the glass, ‘but I do not know his equipage.’
  • On another occasion a gnarled and fervent Radical of the bootmaking persuasion hobbled to the door of his establishment, and waving clenched and uplifted fists, called down upon us and our retreating equipage all the curses at the command of a rather extensive vocabulary until we were out of earshot. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
  • To see the private display, the prodigious number of pleasant dwellings erected in Paris and in the provinces, the numerous equipages, the conveniences, the acquisitions comprehended in the term luxe, one might suppose that opulence was twenty times greater than it formerly was. The Ancient Regime
  • You need a high percentage of equipage and trained crews to use the technology.
  • As if the equipage were a great firework, and the mere sight of a smoking cottage chimney had lighted it, instantly it begins to crack and splutter, as if the very devil were in it. Pictures from Italy
  • He was therefore obliged to content himself with a wretched cariole, and in this equipage, about four in the morning, he reached Froidmanteau, about four leagues from Paris. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • Mostly we clashed with Stoneman's Federal cavalry corps, who had finally the horses, troopers, and equipage to equal our own.
  • The large herd of camels, the Afghans, of whom there are 68, in their diversified and picturesque costumes, the camp-fires, and Oriental camp equipage made up a novel scene.
  • For a few minutes no one came forward, but at last a pair of sleek mules, handsomely caparisoned, with a richly adorned palankeen slung between them, the identical equipage of the maharanee which had been harboured in my home, emerged from the crowd, and advanced at a grave pace toward the royal dais. Tales of Destiny
  • Such equipages m the rococo taste of the middle decades of the eighteenth century were meant to entice avaricious consumers of means with their mixture of scrollwork, exoticism, and fancy.
  • Tess said they must do it with empressement, meaning she would furnish an equipage for them to make their rounds in. Missy
  • Her machinery and her accommodations for equipage and her fifty-eight-man crew were below the waterline.
  • Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
  • But Villars was several times on the point of losing all for want of a sufficient ponton equipage. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
  • Honest Roger, the red-haired coachman, would have looked like a clown in a pantomime, in front of a fashionable equipage; and Simon the footboy, who slouched at my back, would have been mistaken for an idle urchin surreptitiously enjoying a ride. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829

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