The fellow in the coal-scuttle helmet grinned at him.
He spun a coal-scuttle helmet on the tip of one blunt finger.
And sometimes it was a coal-scuttle helmet.
He wore the gray of the Imperial Army, the coal-scuttle helmet that had become its symbol in this war.
A lorry load of soldiers rolled by, blank-faced under their coal-scuttle helmets.
The man who opened it saw a large shape topped with a coal-scuttle helmet silhouetted against the stars.
The ecstatic smile of tow-headed boys going off to war in coal-scuttle helmets.
Some were Germans with rifles and coal-scuttle helmets, many still wearing field-gray great- coats.
He came back with their pair of coal-scuttle helmets.
It was almost as though his coal-scuttle helmet contained a thunderstorm.