We now waved our hats, in hopes of being seen, but got no answering signal, the distance being still too great.

Still, I was unwilling to abandon the Dawn altogether, since the spars that stood on board her, would always be a more available signal to any passing vessel, than the low sail I could set on the raft.

Up went her main-sail, almost as soon as the captain made the signal with his arm; then all three of the top-gallant-sails were flying at the same moment.

That worthy fellow and Marble joined us on a signal from me, when I simply let them into the secret of my affairs.

A number of Venetians made an ambush under some thick trees about a bow-shot from the walls, then they hid behind the hay-waggons and crept in through the gates, which at a given signal they opened to their comrades.

"Well, it wasn't a curtain cord," continued the wood carver with great relish of the joke, "it was the emergency signal, which, by the regulations, must only be used in great danger, so the first thing we knew the train drew up with a terrible jerk, and there was a great shouting and opening of doors and rushing about of officials.

He'd better loaf around the corner of the church until he gets a signal from me.

The above is a signal proof of the strong passion for the drama which then obtained among the literati of this capital, since then, unfortunately, much abated.

She wished that she had a firearm with which to signal to them and bring them at once to the cavern.

Here are the offices, and the spacious abodes of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, together with a handsome hall, &c. On the roof of the building is a Semaphore telegraph, which communicates orders by signal to the principal ports of the empire.

Of late years the building had been modernized and used as a signal-house and subscription reading-room.

But Lesterville had not yet reported its arrival; for which cause the agent at Juniberg was constrained to put out his stop signal, and Kent's special came to a stand at the platform.

There is your signal to pull out.

He saw the chauffeur turn his car in the length of it and send it spinning down the road and across the line into the adjoining State; heard the mellow whistle of the incoming train, and saw the station man nervously setting his stop signal; all with no more than a mild desire to know the reason for so much excitement and hastea desire which was content to wait on the explanation of events.

Fingal, on coming in sight of the palace, observed a beacon-flame on its top as signal of distress, for Frothal king of Sora had besieged it.

For now, on the far side from where he had been watching, Galipaud appeared, no doubt in reply to some secret signal, and the detective with a short nod in acknowledgment had evidently removed his embargo.

It was he who had rung the signal-bell to stop the train and give her a chance of leaving it.

The warning bell had sounded, and the fireman leaned far out for the signal.

It was Sir Thomas Erpingham whom Henry V. in Shakespeare's play addresses as "Good old Knight," and it was he who gave the signal to the English at the Battle of Agincourt, saying, as he threw up his truncheon, "Now, strike!" Norwich occupies a place in history from the time of the earlier Danish invasions.

After leaving the coastguard signal station one reaches Stair Hole, a cavity walled off from the sea by Portland limestone.

Safely secreted in the forecastle during the early afternoon, you could not fail to hear, some hours later, a signal tapped on the deck forward.

This signal would come after supper, when it was dark, and everything propitious as possible.

The Chinese leaped up to listen for a repetition of the signal, which his kind answers the world over.

No one, not even himself, had gone near it, and he never went up to the rocky promontory on which he had raised his signal-pole without knowing that the two negroes were at a distance from the caves, or within his sight.

Then up went his signal-flag, and, with a loud hurrah, down went he to shout out the glad news.