I ceased a sheet and waved it for a flag of truce.

Then, after a little, the lamps of welcome are lighted in her eyes, her breath quickens, her cheeks mount crimson flags in honor of her lord, her hero, her conqueror.

And now, in this month of September, this month of travelling, when men are hastening to the sea-side, or the mountains, or the lakes, this modest Maple, still without budging an inch, travels in its reputation,runs up its scarlet flag on that hill-side, which shows that it has finished its summer's work before all other trees, and withdraws from the contest.

" "A girl that had the whole town wavin' flags at her when she sung 'The Holy City' at the nineteen hundred street-carnival!

But before the Triumvirate could come to a definite decision, it was known that the French troops, by a disgraceful stratagem, had landed and taken possession of Civita Vecchia, General Oudinot entwining the French flag with the Roman tricolor and assuring the Romans that they only came to secure perfect freedom for the people to effect a reconciliation with Pius IX.

Their women and children began to disappear about noon, and then the Indians tried to draw the scouts out by displaying a white flag for a truce.

We've fixed a way to signal to each other by flyin' a little white flag from two low peaks.

I fastened the flag to the stock, put my boots, clothes and other valuables on top of the trunk, and in a voice intended to express my defiance of King WILLIAM and his German Lagerheads, spoke these words: Wave fearless, there, thou standard sheet!

Much as I love Jack, I would rather see him in his grave with the Union flag over him than in the rebel lines, a soldier of that bad cause.

He had held, for instance, that a beneficent Providence will uphold Right against Might; he had pinned his faith to the flag under which he fought and bled when a boy; he had told his Lily (who believed him) that American citizenship is a greater thing than a Roman's in Rome's palmiest day: a phrase taken whole from the mouth of a Fourth of July orator.

Germany responded promptly and promised to use every precaution to protect neutral shipping, but pointed out that the use of the American flag by British ships would make it difficult to distinguish neutral vessels from those of the enemy; hence neutral shipping was urged to avoid the indicated war area.

It was a curious situation for a civil and military governor to be hoisting his flag as a naval commander-in-chief, however small the fleet might be.

Sure enough, we could see a man in white uniform approaching the breastwork, waving a white flag above his head.

"The German pork-butcher, Deckel, who had a large business in Brussels, was attacked in his house by a crowd of Belgian beasts because he had refused to hang a Belgian flag before his shop; with axes and hatchets the mob cut off his head and hewed his corpse in pieces.

When Sidi Hecham had joined them he said, "You must raise a red flag like theirs.

W'at ye got thet red flag out the keepin'-room winder fur?

You didn't see all those flags about like that.

The recruits brought with them recollections of their bombarded cities and of the oppression of their families; and in that army are 140,000 Hungarians who fought under our tri-coloured flag against Austria, and whose burning feelings of national wrong are inspired by the glorious memory of their victories.

And all over the city, as we drove to our hotel, they roared their welcome, and there were flags along the way.

The Rear-Admiral shifted his flag into the Impregnable, and on the 14th the combined expedition sailed for Algiers.

Our ardent wishes accompany also our brothers who are called to the flag without distinction of party.

They out off the arms of the cross, and replaced it by the red flag during a salute of artillery.

[Illustration: Troopship Homeward Bound] THE FLAGS OF THE ALLIES United in defense of Freedom in the great war in Europe.

The sisters went into the breakfast-room, where they had little lady- like offices of their own to discharge, too, in honour of the guest; each employing herself in decorating the table, and in seeing that it wanted nothing in the proprieties As their pleasing tasks were fulfilled, the discourse did not flag between them.

The Japanese officers replied that they considered the flying of any other flag than theirs in Manchuria or Siberia an insult to Japan.