18 collocations for flagging

As for the money, you just throw open that switch and flag the train when she rolls along in a few moments.

That flags a while her fluttering wings beneath, Till she her selfe for stronger flight can breath.

Our conversation never flagged a moment.'

" It appears strange that Lady Mary should have been ignorant, when she wrote the above passage in July or August, 1755, of the authorship of Roderick Random, for in January of that year she had evinced an interest in Smollett: "I am sorry my friend Smollett loses his time in translations; he has certainly a talent for invention, though I think it flags a little in his last work.

A touch of soft color flagged her cheeks.

An older child might have acted differently; might have jumped from the hand-car and left it to be run into by the approaching train, or have hurried back around the bend to flag the engine.

They did that to Mike Malone once, when he flagged the Century Flier when it was goin' to slip over a broken bridge.

This was surrounded by flagging over a foot in width; and connecting it and the pavement proper was another flag.

So I flagged Hadds for help, and the two of us plied the lady with perfumery so fast that the Major couldn't get his oar in, at which he cut loose for himself, wanderin' around behind the counter, smellin' of every bottle on the shelves.

Bands an' parades, grand-opera stars singin' on the corners, famous actors sellin' bonds, flags an' ribbons an' banners everywhere, an' every third man you bumped into wearin' some kind of uniform!

A better way, therefore, is to flag a line, which must be followed, providing traverses across slopes, which soon catch out the sitting novice.

They loosed the land from the Devil's grip, They pierced the hills with their trails, They flagged the rocks at the harbor's mouth, They paved the way for the rails.

At Morning Dew, the first night telegraph station out of the capital, the two sections were no more than a scant quarter of a mile apart; and the operator tried to flag the second section down, as reported.

For although reading and thinking break neither legs nor arms; yet, certainly, there is nothing that flags the spirits, disorders the blood, and enfeebles the whole body of Man, as intense studies.

To let the reader distinguish such problems from any inadvertent transcription errors that remain, I have inserted notes to flag items that appear errors by Brown's own standard.

"Now go out yourself and flag Callahan before he reaches the limits.

Lanyard moved toward the middle of the road and flagged the Delorme touring car as it rounded the turn, a few seconds later, at such speed that Leon was put to it to stop the car fifty yards beyond the limousine.

A stately galley, deeply freighted, On the canal, now draweth near; Her chequer'd flag the breeze caresses

18 collocations for  flagging