shoulder straps

We'll start when some young sardine with shoulder-straps finishes his breakfast, and stop when John Morgan tears up the track.

I answered that I was the colonel of the Second Michigan cavalry, and had on my appropriate shoulder-straps.

The burly man was evidently a personage of importance, and his shoulder straps indicated that he was a major of the general staff.

The old man added: “General —— says if he lives through this he will go into the next battle with shoulder straps on.”

One has the bag on his back, held in place by shoulder straps; the other has a bag thrown over his shoulder like a ragman.