"Semaphore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wireless when we've got wig-wagging and the semaphore code," spoke up Simon Jeffords, who was inclined to doubt the use of any other form of telegraphy but that in which ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson
... could ever know enough to run a railroad." Hilda was looking up at the C. & S. C. right of way, where red and white semaphore lights ...
— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
... and added, "Wherever he is, that long dark finger on the Hill of Pains will find him out—the remorseless Semaphore." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... Mrs. Pagnell. She flung wild arms of a semaphore signalling national events. She sprang before Aminta to stop her retreat, and stamped and gibbed, for sign that she would not be driven. She fell away to Mr. Morsfield, for simple hearing of her plaint. He appeared emphatic. There was a ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... guest. Thus, wrapped in the dignity of misfortune, vanished the last semblance of the graceless and treacherous thraldom of the Spanish Bourbons in the capital of Sicily. The flag of Italy was run up on the tower of the Semaphore. Everywhere the revolution triumphed except at Messina, Milazzo and Syracuse. Even Catania, where a rising had been put down after a sanguinary struggle, was now evacuated and left ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... everyday life slept, or rather lost the power of thought from extreme exhaustion, the heavy snow storm which was making the night doubly dark had so blocked the machinery of the semaphore that it refused to respond to the desperate efforts of the weary signal man, who heard a freight train approaching, and knew that unless it was flagged at once it would dash into the rear end of a passenger train, which ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... Send and receive messages in the General Service or the Semaphore Code at the rate of sixteen and thirty letters ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... Harting is the isolated Beacon Hill, once a semaphore station between Portsmouth and London; but instead of taking at once to the heights, the pedestrian should first visit Elsted up on its own little hill, and Treyford a mile farther; both churches are ruined and deserted. A new church ...
— Seaward Sussex - The South Downs from End to End • Edric Holmes
... and eight months of Saturday nights, each one of them a semaphore dropping out across the gray road of the week, Gertie Slayback and Jimmie Batch dined for one hour and sixty cents at the White Kitchen. Then arm and arm up the million-candle-power flare of Broadway, content, these two who had never ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... instance is that of the telegraph-plant, or Desmodium gyrans, each complete leaf of which consists of a large terminal leaflet and two little lateral ones. These latter keep up, [664] night and day, an irregular jerking movement, which has been compared to the movements of a semaphore. Desmodium is a papilionaceous plant and closely allied to the genus Hedysarum, which has pinnate leaves with numerous pairs of leaflets. Its place in the system leaves no doubt concerning its origin from pinnate-leaved ancestors. At the time of its ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... for speech as she had so much to say. When they reached the corner where Anna Paulovitch waited across the street like a stolid figure of Patience, Mary Rose waved her hand. Anna Paulovitch responded like a semaphore. ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... about to embark for the seat of war. The bicycle corps and mounted squads can care for their machines and horses, make high speed, and meet emergencies with decision and intelligence. The signal corps can use the telegraph key, semaphore, and flags almost as well as veterans, thanks to their training. They can repair telegraph lines and instruments, and have considerable knowledge ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... building is the size of a moderately wealthy country gentleman's house in England, and has one or two fine reception-rooms; between it and the water a monument is being raised to Washington. I fear it will be a sad failure; the main shaft or column suggests the idea of a semaphore station, round the base whereof the goodly things of sculpture are to be clustered. As far as I could glean from conversation with Americans, they seem themselves to anticipate anything ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... master of the Convention. On July 27, the day before he was elected to the Committee, an important change occurred. For the first time, an order was sent from the Tuileries to the army on the frontier, in a quarter of an hour. This was the beginning of the semaphore telegraph, and science was laying hold of the Revolution. On August 1, the metrical system was introduced, and the republican calendar followed; but we shall speak of it ...
— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton |
