166 examples of bunting in sentences

The ancient capital of Virginia was aflame with the new rebel bunting.

On the floor, lying across the litter of bunting, there was stretched a small, dark man with a short, curling beard.

For Sir Piers and his wife motored home at the end of July through a village decked with flags and bunting and under a triumphant arch that made Piers' little two-seater seem absurdly insignificant; while the bells in the church-tower clanged the noisiest welcome they could compass, and Graciehome for the holidaysmustered the school-children to cheer their hardest as the happy couple passed the schoolhouse gate.

The garrison, post, and storm flags are national flags and shall be of bunting.

The station platform and the trim graveled road surrounding it were dark with Hilltonian humanity and gay with crimson bunting.

The gate and outside walls were gayly decorated with bunting and Japanese lanterns, all ready to be lighted as soon as the sun went down.

By four o'clock Benton and his rigging-slinger had just finished bunting their second batch of logs down the chute.

To my eye, there are three new cloths in his main-top-gallant-royal, but no bunting abroad.

"We have forgotten the civility of showing the stranger our bunting.

[el.f'n-ri.gn] (4 syl.) or Alpleich, that weird music with which Bunting, the pied piper of Hamelin, led forth the rats into the river Weser, and the children into a cave in the mountain Koppenberg.

Commander Strang gave an order, and a little row of bunting ran up on the tiny mast of the submarine. '"Heave to, or I'll sink you," that means,' observed Ken's friend.

At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

In the streets people were singing the Marseillaise, waving tricolored bunting, and hurrahing for the Republic.

AGARD, WALTER R. Medical Greek and Latin at a glance, foreword & changes by Walter R. Agard; introd. by C. W. Bunting.

BUNTING, C. W. Medical Greek and Latin at a glance.

Mr. Bunting in peace and war.

BUNTING, C. W. Medical Greek and Latin at a glance.

Mr. Bunting in peace and war.

At first the bunting hung suspended in a line, so as to evade all examination; but, as if everything on board this light craft were on a scale as airy and buoyant as herself, the folds soon expanded, showing a white field, traversed at right angles with a red cross, and having a union of the same tint in its upper and inner corner.

He was skirting the wheat-field now, the tall, green ears stirring with a pleasant rustling sound; in some distant reeds a bunting was warbling, a belated lark was circling slowly downwards over his head.

Private house-boat flags, Union Jacks, bunting, and plants made all the house-boats gay, except ours, which looked bare and forlorn and guiltless of decoration of any sort.

Among the regular visitors are included the white wagtail, the pied flycatcher, the nightjar, the black redstart, the lesser redpole, the snow bunting, the redwing, the reed, marsh, and grasshopper warblers, the siskin, the dotterel, the sanderling, the wryneck, the hobby, the merlin, the bittern, and the shoveller.

"I'll bet my pile," said a rough voice, "that the gridiron bunting won't float another day in South Carolina.

" "I see a great deal of bunting in the streets, and hear any quantity of declamation at your popular gatherings.

The whole song of the Black-throated Bunting consists of five, or rather two, notes; the first repeated twice and very slowly, the third thrice and rapidly, resembling chip, chip, che-che-che; of which ditty he is by no means parsimonious, but will continue it for hours successively.

166 examples of  bunting  in sentences