The large flag you see drooping from the roof is commemorative of the siege of Antwerp, being the one used by General Chassé on that occasion, the various groups of smaller ones being reminiscences of the eighty years' Spanish war and of Indian foes.

She has seen that Germany, mistress on land, and to a large extent on the seas, after having carried everywhere her victorious flag, after having organized her commerce and, by means of her bankers, merchants and capitalists, made vast expansions and placed a regular network of relations and intrigue round the earth, fell when she attempted her act of imperialistic violence.

A red flag fluttered in the center of the road, some four feet from the ground.

More buoyant would I tread Dumb street, deserted square, climb ruin'd wall, Where in a heap beneath a broken flag Lay Adria.

"This is hope enough for one day," she said, rising; "the profession and the flag must counterbalance the years as best they may, and the Truck lives another revolution of the sun!

There were to be present on this interesting occasion two Colonial governors and their ladies, an English general, the captain of the flag-ship Achilles, and above a score of Colonial magnates and ladies of distinction.

nberg.org Title: The Green Flag Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Release Date: December 13, 2003

[eBook #10446] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREEN FLAG*** E-text prepared by Lionel G. Sear of Truro, Cornwall, England THE GREEN FLAG.

THE GREEN FLAG When Jack Conolly, of the Irish Shotgun Brigade, the Rory of the Hills Inner Circle, and the extreme left wing of the Land League, was incontinently shot by Sergeant Murdoch of the constabulary, in a little moonlight frolic near Kanturk, his twin-brother Dennis joined the British Army.

The lives of five regiments and the honour of the flag hung upon the answer.

Why should they throw away their lives for a flag for which they cared nothing?

From the fixed bayonet there fluttered a little green flag with the crownless harp.

God knows for what black mutiny, for what signal of revolt, that flag had been treasured up within the corporal's tunic!

"What for the flag?" yelled the private.

The flag, boysthe flag!" C Company were rallying upon it.

"Close on the flag!

Back to the flag!"

In token of our victory I send you by this messenger a flag which we have taken.

Some took to the more peaceful but less lucrative ways of ordinary commerce, others were absorbed into the fishing fleets, and a few of the more reckless hoisted the Jolly Rodger at the mizzen, and the bloody flag at the main, declaring a private war upon their own account against the whole human race.

They had hoisted the black flag and the red pennant, but no answer came from the shore.

If they were prepared to sail under the black flag, he was ready to command them; but if any wished to withdraw, they might have the gig and row back to Jamaica.

A runaway, seated outside a café amidst a group of eager questioners, recounts that the barricade at the Neuilly bridge has been attacked by sergents de ville dressed as soldiers, and Pontifical Zouaves carrying a white flag.

a royalist flag," answered the runaway.

A little later, and a few minutes after the arrival of General Vinoy at Mont Valérien, a messenger with a flag of truce, preceded by a trumpeter and accompanied by two sergents de ville (inevitably), is said to have presented himself at the bridge of Courbevoie.

And when, at the very beginning, some stains of blood were seen upon your old disguises; "Pay no attention," said you, "it is only the red flag we have in our pockets that is sticking out."