'Money, cocked hats and feathers, red coats and gold lace; all the fine things there are, ever were, or will be; will belong to us if we are true to that noble gentleman-- the best man in the world--carry our
flags for a few days, and keep
Gongs and drums, banners and
flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.
Great crowds assembled, more especially in the dinner hour, in Madison Square about the Farragut monument, to listen to and cheer patriotic speeches, and a veritable epidemic of little
flags and buttons swept through these great torrents of swiftly moving young people, who poured into New York of a morning by car and mono-rail and subway and train, to toil, and ebb home again between the hours of five and seven.
"That's a graveyard, and it's proper to muffle the drums and lower the
flags as we go by, and we'd better take off our hats, too; it's more respectable, I think."
Sigg judged it expedient to transfer her to the Siamese
flag.
In the grounds of the famous missionary consul, Pritchard, then absent in London, the consular
flag of Britain waved as usual during the day, from a lofty staff planted within a few yards of the beach, and in full view of the frigate.
Flutter, flutter, went the
flag, first to the right, then to the left.
I still kept the green
flag, with the dove worked on it.
"It would look perfectly elergant flashing in the sun when I point to the
flag. Good-by; don't wait for me going back; I may get a ride."
The battle
flag in the distance jerked about madly.
living, at least unless death had struck Barbicane and his two friends since they had hoisted the
flag. Profound silence reigned on the boats.
"Yes," we said, "there is the flag-staff, but where is the
flag?" "Here it is," he answered, pulling off his blouse and fixing it to the stick.
