139 adjectives to describe signals

We afterwards improved in this mode of intercourse, and, by various preconcerted signals, were able to carry on our correspondence altogether in the night.

That evening, soon after sunset, the searching party returned; and, no sooner did Jyanough perceive, from the spot where he had posted his men among the rocks and bushes that commanded the pathway, that Coubitant and his fellow-criminal were with them, than he gave the concerted signal, and rushed upon them.

Although I had been stationed at the wheel of the sloop as we swept past the Namur while at anchor the day before, yet Estada, watching anxiously for the secret signal of his chief, would never have accorded me so much as a glance.

Meanwhile he had made a wireless signal to other ships to keep away as he still hoped to get the submarine, which, now keeping submerged, moved round the ship for three quarters of an hour, during which period the fire gained on the Dunraven and frequent explosions of ammunition took place.

All other whistle signals are prohibited.

As by a prearranged signal, all four of the Germans threw down their oars and jumped to their feet.

The two officers narrowly watched its effect on the stranger, who refused, however, to make any answering sign to the false signal they had just exhibited.

The firing line can rarely be controlled by the voice alone; thorough training to insure the proper use of prescribed signals is necessary.

Between him and the forest, half smothered in the deep snow, was a cabin, and he shuddered as he saw floating over it the little red signal of death of which Croisset had told him the night before.

Preoccupied with these thoughts, he paid no attention to the groups of students who were at such an early hour returning from the Walled City, as though the classrooms had been closed, nor did he even note the abstracted air of some of them, their whispered conversations, or the mysterious signals exchanged among them.

The horse had given one wild, prodigious bound at hearing the familiar signal.

With eager, tremulous hands he hoisted a pre-arranged signal to warn them against the blacks.

(That diurnal inequality was inferred from the magnetic reductions 1848-1857, which were terminated in 1860.)Regarding the proposal of hourly time-signals on the Start Point, I consulted telegraph engineers upon the practical points, and on Dec. 21st I proposed a formal scheme, in complete detail.

" The next morning, the scarlet mantlethe customary signal displayed in Roman camps on the morning of a day of battlewas seen at the tops of the tents of the two commanding generals, waving there in the air like a banner.

He made this a pretextcertainly, not a very well grounded onefor delaying the execution of Squanto's sentence; and declared that he would not give the fatal signal until he had ascertained the object and the contents of the approaching vessel.

The sharp signal for "down brakes," made experienced passengers spring to their feet.

But, unnerved by the trying experience of the night, or worn out by fatigue, Dick's call was far from the significant signal he had practiced with Jack.

At about eight o'clock the duke gave the joyful signal for an advance all along the line.

All the aides-de-camp were making frantic signals to me to go on, and the whole cortege was stopped.

Freydis, there is no way in which two persons may meet in this world of men: we can but exchange, from afar, despairing friendly signals, in the sure knowledge they will be misinterpreted.

She hated the ominous signal, and turning the glasses, followed the doctor's launch.

He repeated my question to the principal official, and the latter, walking to a door in the farther corner of the room, sounded an electric signal; a few seconds after which the door opened, showing two veiled figures, the pink ground of whose robes indicated their matronhood, if I may apply such a term to the relation of his hundred temporary wives to the Camptâ.

dle to point, by which signal the clerk at that station instantly knows that the forthcoming question is addressed to him; and accordingly, by a corresponding signal, he announces to the London boy that he is ready to receive it.

Garry Grayson's double signals; or, Vanquishing the football plotters, by Elmer A. Dawson, pseud.

Between this person and Mr. Lancaster I thought I perceived a rapid secret signal pass as we came in, but was not sure.

139 adjectives to describe  signals