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...ith a paper knife buttoned up under his jacket, and waving the dreaded black flag at the end of a cane, the colonel took command of me at two P.M. on ... ... were to conquer or die. The enemy appeared, approached. Waving his black flag, the colonel attacked. Confusion ensued. Anxiously I awaited my sign... ...t through, and seeing Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, gave up his sword “Holiday Romance” Charles Dickens 21 t... ... towards him. On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring her to, she ran up a flag, which he instantly recognised as the flag from the mast in the bac... ...ies of joy. Before ‘The Beauty’ could get under way, the hoisting of all the flags in the town and harbour, and the ringing of all the bells, announce...

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...ien boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand? There when the flags were red and white In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil Was firing the can... ...l superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera House. “The honor of the flag must be upheld,” he said, “Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe... ...e greatest power in Europe.” And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And... ...As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And followed the flag till I saw it raised By our camp in a rice field near Manila, And all ... ...f fear To the hour of the charge through the steaming swamp, Following the flag, 101 Edgar Lee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the gu... ...ee Masters Till I fell with a scream, shot through the guts. Now there’s a flag over me in Spoon River. A flag! A flag! John Wasson OH! the dew-wet gr... ...y, scourges, death— If Harry Wilmans who fought the Filipinos Is to have a flag on his grave Take it from mine. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldie... ...e. 102 Spoon River Anthology Many Soldiers THE idea danced before us as a flag; The sound of martial music; The thrill of carrying a gun; Advancement... ...n James HARRY WILMANS! Y ou who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag Y ou were not wounded by the greatness of a dream, Or destroyed by ine...

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...ope) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest of 4 Notes on a Journey from ... ...ntry church, and on going on deck we found an awning raised, a desk with a flag flung over it close to the compass, and the ship’s company and passeng... ... considerably under the value of a farthing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening a... ...emains the recollection of the fine city and the blue sea, and the Spanish flags floating on the boats that danced over it, and Joinville’s band begin... ...up the huge mountain, from the tower nestled at the foot of it to the thin flagstaff at the summit, up to which have been piled the most ingenious edi... ...t was pleasant, certainly, to laugh at 21 Thackeray Joinville’s admiral’s flag floating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thunderin... ...ful pleasure. There she lay—the huge sea-castle—bearing the unconquerable flag of our country. She had but to open her jaws, as it were, and she migh... ...with a huge shining lateen sail, and bearing the blue and white Portuguese flag, was seen playing a sort of leap-frog on the jolly waves, jumping over... ...Grand Cairo mids, and along the vast rock-galleries, and up to the topmost flagstaff, where the sentry can look out over two seas, poor fellows are ma...

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... some time Messrs. Sigg judged it expedient to transfer her to the Siamese flag. At the news of the contemplated transfer Jukes grew rest- less, as if... ...r of a man who knows the value of a good billet. The first morning the new flag floated over the stern of the Nan-Shan Jukes stood looking at it bitte... ...dge. He struggled with his feelings for a while, and then remarked, “Queer flag for a man to sail under, sir.” “What’s the matter with the flag?” inqu... ...room, and opened his International Signal Code-book at the plate where the flags of all the nations are correctly figured in gaudy rows. He ran his fi... ...r the purpose of comparing the coloured drawing with the real thing at the flagstaff astern. When 12 Typhoon next Jukes, who was carrying on the duty... ... on the bridge, his com- mander observed: “There’s nothing amiss with that flag.” “Isn’t there?” mumbled Jukes, falling on his knees before a deck-loc... ...n the middle. I thought the people ashore would know how to make the local flag. Stands to reason. Y ou were wrong, Jukes… .” “Well, sir,” began Jukes... ...re, I take it, stands for something in the nature of the Union Jack in the flag… .” “Does it!” yelled Jukes, so that every head on the Nan- Shan’s dec... ...n’t a British ship now. These brutes know it well, too. The damned Siamese flag.” “We are on board, all the same,” remarked Captain MacWhirr. “The tro...

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...ell about. Great rejoicings, to be sure, were made on our arrival. All the flags in the place were hoisted, all the guns in the place were fired, and ... ...f the anchorage. On the right was a sort of barrack, with a South American Flag and the Union Jack, flying from the same staff, where the little Engli... ...xpectations. But, I presume you know that these villains under their black flag have despoiled our countrymen of their property, burnt their homes, ba... ...e-drunk—but, they all seemed one or the other— came forward with the black flag, and gave it a wave or two. After that, the Portuguese captain called ... ... he began), said it again in English. It was only this. “Boys of the black flag, this is to be quickly done. Take all the prisoners you can. If they d... ...most atrocious deeds that ever stained it? The howling, mur- dering, black-flag waving, mad, and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbe...

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...ost before the sun goes down. This is that famed Martial law, with its Red Flag, its ‘Drapeau Rouge:’ in virtue of which Mayor Bailly, or any Mayor, h... ...e name of the High- est, under the eye of the Highest; imagination herself flag- ging under the reality; and all noblest Ceremony as yet not grown cer... ...rand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty- three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar... ...tter still more questionably: Chateau-Vieux, far from marching, ‘waves red flags out of two carriages, ’ in a passionate manner, along the streets; an... ...Onward like a Planet, by appointed times, by law of Nature! What next? Lo, flag of truce and chamade; conjuration to halt: Malseigne and Denoue are on... ... The winter is hard and cold; ragged Bakers’-queues, like a black tattered flag-of- distress, wave out ever and anon. It is the third of our Hunger-ye... ...t the sight of Martial Law; which neverthe- less waving its Red sanguinary Flag, advances there, from the Gros-Caillou Entrance; advances, drumming an... ...Simoneau, Mayor of Etampes, in this North- ern region, hanging out his Red Flag in some riot of grains, is trampled to death by a hungry exasperated P... ... and with the boast that it is Seventy thousand: most strange to see; with flags flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclamation, and d’Artois Commission of...

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...true. He and my countrymen in your Majesty’s service stood under the green flag in the breach of Burgos, and beat Wellington back. It was the only tim... ...and very nearly six feet in length, completed this elegant costume. My two flags were each surmounted with a real skull and cross-bones, and ornamente... ...d beard (of enormous length, taken from men slain in battle by me). On one flag were of course the arms of John Company; on the other, an image of mys... ...ordi- nary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure. On the top of this my flag was planted, and the small garrison of forty men only were comfortably... ...e running to me, saying that a Mahratta soldier was before the gate with a flag of truce! “I went down, rightly conjecturing, as it turned out, that t... ... good fortune for that, and passed boldly out of the fortress, bearing the flag of truce as before; I had scarcely passed on a couple of hundred yards... ...ormed its garrison, and were keeping watch on the roof—each roof bearing a flagstaff twenty feet long on its top, the crescent glit- tering with a tho... ...the figure. The ruffians were mustered in front, the cavalry be- hind. The flags were flying, the drums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other...

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...And heard a thousand briny songs. 21 Her mission with her manly crew, Her flag unfurl’d, her title told, She took the Old World to the New, And broug... ...black to white, Like parson into lawny bishop. IX The elms and yellow reed-flags in the sun, Look on quite grave:—the sunlight flecks his side; And li... ... entered it Serjeant-Major,”—and now he commands a salute, And carries the flag of old England! Heigh! see him lift foes on his foot! XIII ‘—An offic... ...e pleasures pure, Sureties as the stars are sure: Not the wanton beckoning flags Which, of flattery and delight, Wax to the grim Habit-Hags Riding sou... ...ag, Where the goatherds in piping recline, Have whimsical stops, burst and flag Uncorrected as outstretched swine: For the fingers are slack and unsur... ...the reed. Flushing like the dogwood crimson in October; Streaming like the flag-reed South-west blown; Flashing as in gusts the sudden-lighted whitebe... ...n rise, Though it should slay our best. XXV The Crown it furled a draggled flag, It sheathed a broken blade. Behold its triumph in the hag That lives ... ...aiting: fair as dawn Wrapped in folds of night she lay; Secret, lustrous; flaglike there, Waiting him to stream and ray, With one loosening blush out... ...utcries of affright, 278 Voices that through many a fray, In the press of flag and spear, Warned the king of peril near? Men were dumb, they gave him...

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...rom Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. Flags of Danger to Fatherland wave at the Hotel-de-Ville; on the Pont Neuf—... ..., strong Danton, whatsoever man is strong! Read- ers can judge whether the Flag of Country in Danger flapped soothing or distractively on the souls of... ...ory, of the Cercle So- cial. Sharp was the death-hail rattling round one’s Flag-of- truce, on that Bastille day: but it was soft to such wreck- age of... ...g the fire-cross from Town to Town, till all France blaze. And so there is Flag of Fatherland in Danger waving from the Townhall, Black Flag from the ... ...there is to be business. ’ And Megaera women perambulate the streets, with flags, with lamentable alleleu. (Meillan, Memoires, p. 195; Buzot, pp. 69, ... ...o Bourdeaux! cries the general voice, of Valour alike and of Despair. Some flag of Respectability still floats there, or is thought to float. Thitherw... ...t fleur-de-lys, in the name of a new Louis the Pretender; but the Austrian flag flies; as if Austria meant to keep them for herself! Perhaps General C... ...e’s New Calendar getting ready? On all house- tops flicker little tricolor Flags, their flagstaff a Pike and Liberty-Cap. On all house-walls, for no P... ...ous Powers,—into the hands of the English! On Toulon Arsenal there flies a Flag,—nay not even the Fleur-de-lys of a Louis Pretender; there flies that ...

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... the shore, we turned and saw from the vessel’s mast her name signalled in flags of joyous colours, and fluttering by their side the beautiful America... ...trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hopes of the passengers re vive; the cooks pause in their savoury... ...s of snow; white wooden houses; people at their doors; telegraphs working; flags hoisted; wharfs appearing; ships; quays crowded with people; distant ... ... his success, at least in gaining approbation. His attention then began to flag, and I commenced playing with him. It was evident that in all this he ... ... shipping, in one of the narrow, old, water side streets, with a gay blue flag waving freely from its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit wer... ...done to the others. No harm at all. Those that want to be safe, must hoist flags. That’s all they’ll have to do. They must hoist flags. ’ Even while h... ...reground a forest of ships’ masts, cheery with flap ping sails and waving flags. Crossing from among them to the opposite shore, were steam ferry—boa... ...indow at the little dog below. You wonder what may be the use of this tall flagstaff in the by street, with something like Liberty’s head dress on its... ... Liberty’s head dress on its top: so do I. But there is a passion for tall flagstaffs hereabout, and you may see its twin brother in five minutes, if ...

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... a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’clock as if in honour of our arrival. It would have been a... ...f war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport the bunting of flags hallowed in the traditions of honour and glory. He is a good friend a... ... straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock- gates. Mast-heads and f... ...n the decks of small coasters, and made sore by miles of tramping upon the flagstones of the dock side, had hurried up in time to avert a ridicu- lous... ...gnal-mast with yard and gaff, flying a couple of dingy blue, red, or white flags. This New South Dock (it was its official name), round which my earli... ... after his unsatisfactory day 105 Joseph Conrad slumbers, hauled down the flags and fastened a lighted lantern at the break of the gangway. The night... ...ots, and tug- men; from the hail of gruff voices and the flutter of signal flags exchanged between ships closing upon 113 Joseph Conrad each other an... ...on the skylight brusquely, and began to walk about the poop. “A shirt or a flag,” he ejaculated irritably. “Can’t make it out… Some damn rag or other!...

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...And to parallel this Cock, there be divers fishes that cast their spawn on flags or stones, and then leave it uncovered, and exposed to become a prey ... ...the ground out of which they are got; as the marsh worm, the tag tail, the flag worm, the dock worm, the oak worm, the gilt tail, the twachel or lob ... ...he moor fly, the tawny fly, the shell fly, the cloudy or blackish fly, the flag fly, the vine fly; there be of flies, caterpillars, and canker flies, ... ...our live baits, thus fastened to bladders, or boughs, or bottles of hay or flags, to swim down a river, whilst you walk quietly a]one on the shore, an... ...be no Pikes nor Perch to devour their spawn, when it is cast upon grass or flags, or weeds, where it lies ten or twelve days before it be enlivened Th... ...t then, she putting on a seeming coyness, they force her through weeds and flags, where she lets fall her eggs or spawn, which sticks fast to the weed... ... before the fire to make them tough. Or, there is, at the root of docks or flags or rushes, in watery places, a worm not unlike a maggot, at which Ten... ... in June and July; or at several flies, under water, which may be found on flags that grow near to the water side. I doubt not but that there be many ... ... the three hot months, for in the nine colder he stirs not much, bite at a flag worm or at a green gentle; but can positively say no more of the Tench...

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...t bloody,” said Josephine. “Wouldn’t I love it! I’d go in front with a red flag.” “It would be rather fun,” said Tanny. “Wouldn’t it!” cried Josephine... ...was a large stone house with its green shut- ters all closed. But from the flagpole under the eaves, over the central window of the uppermost floor—th... ...w of the uppermost floor—the house was four storeys high—waved the Italian flag in the melancholy damp air. Aaron looked at it—the red, white and gree... ... town seemed depressed and empty. It was a na- tional holiday. The Italian flag was hanging from almost ev- ery housefront. It was about three o’clock... ...alcony. It was a sort of procession, or march of men, here and there a red flag fluttering from a man’s fist. There had been a big meeting, and this w... ...houting, becoming vicious. Over the shop-door hung a tricolour, a national flag. The shop was closed, but the men began to knock at the door. They wer... ... Some wore red cotton neck-ties. They lifted their faces to the na- tional flag, and as they shouted and gesticulated Aaron could see their strong tee... ... a little pool, the thick wedge of the procession beyond, flecked with red flags. A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pa... ...ooking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery— a great overtone of acrid ...

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...re met his eyes, when of a sudden he found himself sprawling on the sacred flagging. He looked up to behold three enraged priests, who forthwith fell ... ...handernagor, where Passepartout would have been proud to see his country’s flag flying, were hidden from their view in the darkness. Calcutta was reac... ...e, “though rascal as he is, he is a polite one!” The sails and the English flag were hoisted at ten minutes past three. Mr. Fogg and Aouda, who were s... ...about to apply a red-hot coal to the touchhole, Mr. Fogg said, “Hoist your flag!” The flag was run up at half-mast, and, this being the signal of dist... ...e quay near the custom-house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing the flags of all nations. Passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious t... ...re had been seen by the captain of the Y okohama steamer, who, espying the flag at half-mast, had directed his course towards the little craft. Philea... ...s, were full of people. Men were going about carry- ing large posters, and flags and streamers were floating in the wind; while loud cries were heard ... ...c way, no doubt, of casting a vote. The crowd swayed back, the banners and flags wavered, disap- peared an instant, then reappeared in tatters. The un... ...gle auditor, “will you not plant yours there, too, under the shadow of our flag?” “No!” replied Passepartout courageously, in his turn retir- ing from...

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...eality than a very young child. It has these dreams that we express by the flags of nationali- 16 War and the Future ties and by strange loyalties an... ...is war of Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of King and Country or any of those fine old headline t... ...nd glories of soldiering, the bright uniforms, the feathers and spurs, the flags, the march-past, the disciplined massed advance, the charge; all thes... ... him, in which many people did inelegant and irrational things. They waved flags—nasty little flags. This child of the ages, this last fruit of the gi... ...uritan have shown that men can fight better for a Divine Idea than for any flag or monarch in the world. It seems to me that illusions fade and effigi...

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...e enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prison- ers, with very little loss to himse... ...r lives in defense of their country and in vindication of the honor of its flag; that the nation owes to them some permanent recognition of their patr... ...urbed the public peace but have overborne the civil au- thorities and made flagrant civil war, destroying property and life in various parts of the St... ...ould gladden the heart of Slidell in Europe, and of every enemy of the old flag in the world. Ev- ery advocate of slavery naturally desires to see bl... ...ry Powers) are entirely satisfactory. The rebellion which has so long been flagrant in China has at last been suppressed, with the co-operating good o... ...m glad to see an Indiana regiment on this day able to present the captured flag to the Governor of Indiana. I am not dis- posed, in saying this, to ... ...us the ground occupied by the enemy this morning. I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been fou... ...ag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been four flags captured to-day.” Judging by the two points from which General Grant ... ... Seven NOTE ON A CARD TO SECRETARY STANTON. April 10, 1865. Tad wants some flags—can he be accommodated? A. LINCOLN. RESPONSE TO A CALL, APRIL 10, 186...

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... noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag. This was the Deputation. There had been a hasty consul- tation, and s... ...hem with signals, that we too were intelligent. Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the left. It was too far for me to recogn... ...me audible. Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small verti... ...t and a terrible astonish- ment. The little group of black specks with the flag of white had been swept out of existence, and the stillness of the eve... ...ula of the papers. A sapper told me it was done by a man in a ditch with a flag on a long pole. The Martians took as much notice of such advances as w... ...cloud scud above. Every now and then a haze of smoke from some nearer con- flagration drove across the window and hid the Martian shapes. I could not ... ...n answer, the iron- clad seaward fired a small gun and hoisted a string of flags. A jet of smoke sprang out of her funnels. Some of the passengers wer...

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..., not these I sing, My voice shall fill a narrower ring. Tired souls, that flag upon the wing, I seek to cheer: Brave wines to strengthen hope I bring... ...om where the dogs of Scotland call the sheep around the fold, To where the flags are flying beside the Gates of Gold. Where all the deep-sea galleons ...

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...he soldier shall be his brother, and both shall stand together beneath the flag of honor.’ “By the time that the rest of us who were away down there i... ...e as they did on parade in those days, when they were reared above all the flags of all the nations of Europe. The Poles could not con- tain their joy... ...ll joy and happi- ness; they make a fool of the Empress, and fly the white flag out at the windows. The Emperor’s closest friends among his generals f... ...an hear him yet, we were all crying just like children; the Eagles and the flags had been lowered as if for a funeral. Ah! and it was a funeral, I can... ... convinced that he was something more than mortal, that they respected his flag, saying that God would be displeased if any one meddled with it. So he... ...nd there on the battlefield, which was soaked with our blood, he burns his flags and his Eagles—the poor Eagles that had never been defeated, that had... ...s and its difficulties, and at the prospect the courage of youth sometimes flags. We are still serving our apprenticeship to life; we are new to the b... ...ard the merchant vessel, Sire,’ the man answered. ‘I will run up the white flag and man the brig with a few devoted followers. We will tackle the Engl...

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... love, Comes dear d by being lack d. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, T o rot... ... question: twas a shame no less Than was his loss, to course your flying flags, And leave his navy gazing. CLEOPATRA: Prit...