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Example sentences for "black flag"

  • This unusual visitor to the little bay was a very low and very long, black schooner, with tall masts which raked forward, and with something which looked very much like a black flag fluttering in its rigging.

  • It is related that during this fight a man appeared on the Confederate intrenchments displaying a black flag, and was instantly shot down.

  • But I'll have a black flag, anyhow, and maybe I'll be a pirate some other time.

  • It will blow your ship out of the water, and I'll have a black flag on it and everything!

  • I'm going to get a black flag so I can be a pirate and sink your ship with gold, diamonds and chocolate cakes on!

  • Ted went to get a black flag to be a pirate, so he could sink my ship that was loaded with diamonds, gold and chocolate cakes.

  • At this moment came up all the prisoners, having been dressed in white shirts, and forced on deck, and a dirty tarpaulin was hoisted for a black flag.

  • As soon as he came along Side of her, she brought a Spring upon her Cable, and fired a whole Broadside upon Davis, at the same Time hoisted a black Flag; Davis hoisted his black Flag in like Manner, and fired one Gun to Leeward.

  • In time this restriction ceased to be observed; they hoisted the red or black flag, with or without the colours of the nationality they affected, and spared no vessel they were strong enough to capture.

  • Jefferson Davis refers to the Subject in his Message, and the Confederate Congress orders All Negroes captured to be turned over to the State Authorities, and raises the "Black Flag" upon White Officers commanding Negro Soldiers.

  • Major Bradford brought in a black flag, which meant no quarter.

  • When we looked back on starting our march we could see the depot cairn with a black flag tied to a pair of 10 foot sledge runners for quite three miles--it promised well for picking up.

  • After our lunch we made a depot and put two weekly units in the snow cairn, which we built and marked with a black flag.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black ball; black bass; black bread; black buck; black granite; black ground; black lead; black letter; black line; black marble; black mare; black oxide; black people; black sheep; black silk; black skin; black slave; black spot; black tents; black troops; black woman; eighteenth century; good stuff; mile below; public place; sometimes written