"Flagpole" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hymn was over, the Sanford men quietly left the grand stand, quietly formed into a long line in groups of fours, quietly marched to the college flagpole in the center of the campus. A Sanford banner was flying from the pole, a blue banner with an orange S. Wayne Gifford loosened the ropes. Down fluttered the banner, and the boys reverently took off their hats. Gifford caught the banner before it touched the ground and ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... city clock struck the hour of 12 and the crowds, almost breathless and with eyes fixed upon the flagpole, watched for developments. At the sound of the first gun from Fort Morro, Major Dean and Lieutenant Castle, of General Brooke's staff, hoisted the Stars and Stripes, while the band played the ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... to fight with that there long flagpole. Soon as 'e's chucked it away 'e's a dead 'un. Say, what did they do with 'is dead body? No use a 'idin' of it. If I was 'im I'd a cut 'is throat, and left the razor in 'is 'and, and they'd a brought it in soosanside. ...
— Reginald Cruden - A Tale of City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... reached the corner, he stopped in front of a large flagpole that projected out from the building some ...
— Philip Dru: Administrator • Edward Mandell House
... a small building and a flagpole on the south shore, but on nearing the place found it was deserted. A few miles below were two other channels equally as large as that on which we travelled, evidently fed by streams similar to our own. There were numerous ...
— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb
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