I rolled myself round with straw, and still retaining all my clothes, greatcoat, balaclava, muffler, trench boots, I went to sleep.
It was Wilson's pleasant conceit to keep his balaclava rolled up, so that his face was bare, on such occasions, being somewhat proud of the fact that he had not, as yet, been frost-bitten.
Luckily we had a pickaxe and a shovel lying out behind the house, so taking off my sheepskin jacket and balaclava, I started off to excavate the hole which I proposed should form a sort of cellar.
The 'faceless judges ' refers to the practice of trying the accused before a panel of judges with their faces concealed by balaclavas, ostensibly to protect their identity.
The balaclava and the baseball bat are not part of democratic life; they are an offence to it.
The bi-weekly invasion of our dining room by knitters of balaclava helmets and sewers of blankets was certainly nothing out of the ordinary.
First, the assailant in a pub is unlikely to be disguised, unlike a bank robber who may wear a balaclava and a mask.
The hardliners are the people who put on the balaclavas.
