He saw the flare of a camp-fire shining bright through the dark of a low-lying flat two miles or more from his vantage-point.

'Send up a flare!' 'Call for a barrage!' etc.

The Resolution cruised about, firing guns and burning flares, but no response was heard, and when the weather cleared up, the Adventure was not to be seen.

Holroyd watched the mounting yellow flare against the blackness, and the livid flashes of sheet lightning that came and went above the forest summits, throwing them into momentary silhouette, and his stoker stood behind him watching also.

This confidence of the owner of the Half-Moon in his foreman was justified, when, at the end of another hour, the men caught the flare of a camp fire in the direction of the pool.

His right hand raised to his cheek, and rested there, and in his eyes came that flare of yellow hate.

Closer and closer drew the red flare of the dying fire, casting long rays of light into Kurt's eyes.

Now come along, and keep low, and drop the instant a light flares.

At times the dark, lowering, scurrying clouds broke to emit a flare of sunshine and to show a patch of blue.

With the waning of the ovarian function, the thyroid type will also exhibit its particular flare.

He expected the flare of a match; instead there was a soft tread, and the rustle of skirts.

Any small boy who had never had enough fireworks in his life might be given a job in the German trenches, with the privilege of firing flares till he fell asleep from exhaustion.

These were large bundles of cocoanut-husks and candlenuts soaked in oil, and they gave a generous flare.

They could hear the fire flare and flutter in the stove; then the wind screamed again, and the wail came down to them.

One dot, larger, detached itself from the others and indicated the flare on the end of the landing float.

The usual signals were exchanged, and Toddles finished up a graceful descent by making violent contact with the ground, bouncing seven times and knocking over two flares before finally coming to rest.

It camethis knowledgelike a slowly increasing flare of light; and at last he said under his breath, to himself: "Nothing is unworthily born that is born of God's own law.

But still she leaves the flowery flare Such as Dame Venus' self might wear Where first she placed them, since they blow More bounteous color hanging so, And seem more native to the air.

And once after a first supper at sea out of Singapore (there had been a green salad, a fish baked whole, a cut of ham with new potatoes, and a peach-preserve tart), the Captain put down his napkin and coffee-cup, drank a liqueur, reached for his pipe and handkerchief, and suddenly encountering the eyes of Andrew, who lit a flare for him, jerked up decisively, as one encountering a crisis.

" Just before daybreak a guard stationed two blocks west of the court-house noticed a flare of light in the windows of a building opposite.

What would life be in the Home without Jane? Polly did not ask herself these questions in exactly these words, but she felt the desolate possibility that had been suggested to her; and it was so appalling that it quite overpowered her flare of temper, and stopped her sobs and cries as effectually as Jane could have desired.

As the buggy came down, the receiver of the lamp smashed, and suddenly poured a flare of blazing oil, a thud of white flame, into the struggle.

Somehow this recalled his flare, his adumbration of some great idea connected with young Arkwright and the old Captain, and the South.

She broke off abruptly, remembering Dick's flare of resentment at that familiar formula, remembering too the kiss she had given him in the dimly-lit hall in the Hostelry, the kiss which had not been precisely such a one as she would have given Larry.

Then the doctor had grasped the opportunity, that momentary respite the flare afforded, and was out of the brickmaker's sight below battering the door with the butt of his whip....