Location this time had been made on sightings toward the mountain, and a flagpole at Cape San Souci on the western side of the island.
Neither boy had been there, but they had used a flagpole on the tip of the cape near the town as a sighting marker.
We've raised a flagpole on the farm And flung Old Glory to the sky; We're far removed from war's alarm, But courage here is running high.
While it was still light outside they had sometimes played ball with the wooden knob of the flagpole of the ship, but since early November they had taken no exercise of any sort.
The ship's carpenter then jumped overboard with the flag of the Dutch Republic and a flagpole under his arm.
Indeed, on the knoll crowning Mount Murchison, where a ten-foot flagpole had been left, snow had accumulated so that less than a foot of the top of the pole was showing.
To erect a flagpole or a wireless pole, cut the bottom of the pole wedge-shaped, fit in the space between the cross poles, as in Fig.
The removal of the flagpole and flag; the arrows; the hole in the hillside; the finding of the boat with unfamiliar oars and rope on it.
Bob profited so well that before he was ten years old he could swear like a trooper, fight like a pugilist, climb a flagpole with the smartest, swim like a fish, and do a very great many other physical feats.
There were many in that crowd who remembered 1783; there stood the man who, in his boyhood's days, had climbed the flagpole and torn down the Union Jack of England, and in its place had hoisted the Star Spangled Banner.
On returning from one of the trips their flagpole and staff, which was put up on a high point, called Observation Hill, was missing.
Some months before they had forded the South River, at the time the flagpole for Observation Hill was cut, so they had ample reason to believe that they would be dependable under these circumstances.
Thornberry was pacing around the flagpoledirectly opposite the main entrance.
Down the hall, past the wide main entrance with its glimpse of the flagpole outside and inside the stairs leading to the second floor, where a large part of the permanent staff were given rent-free quarters.
Thornberry and add, I'll meet him at the flagpole in five minutes.
I painted a flagpole on a barn up in Massachusetts where there was four hundred dollars in gold hidden under the weather-vane.
Then it took a long jump straight down Wall Street, smashed a flagpole to slivers, and vanished.
There were the ordered rows of white tents, the top of the lodge roof with smoke wreathing lazily from the stone chimney and with the bare flagpole standing up beyond.
Blackie ran with him through the little tent-village, but when he reached the flagpole before the spreading lodge he halted as the lake and the far shore spread out before his view.
He stumbled across to the base of the flagpole and began spreading out his bed on the hard ground.
Take your blankets and go sleep on the ground by the flagpole to-night.
And after that Marjorie went up on deck, where the weathercock was sitting on the flagpole in the moonlight.
Thank you, I think I will," replied the weathercock, hopping nimbly on to the flagpole of the Ark.
There's a big black cloud in the west," shouted the Weathercock, who had flown up to his perch on the flagpole and was keeping a sharp lookout.
If you are patriotic, and of course you are, you will take off your hat to the colors that fly from a tall flagpole in the center of the campus.
Don't you know it's against the sacred customs of Randall College for a freshman to wear the colors on his hat until after the flagpole rush?
Two little brass cannon thrust their muzzles over the parapet to seaward and the central space of grass about the flagpolewas neatly surrounded with a decoration of scallop shells.
Mark had arranged with Doria that a signal should fly from "Crow's Nest" for him if there were any news; but nothing had happened, for the flagpole was bare.
He is a movable landmark, as permanent as the Republican flagpole in the city park.
I remember Sadie when she was only knee high to a grasshopper, and her mother spanked her for climbing the Republican flagpoleduring the McKinley campaign.
It suggested a flagpole when I first saw it; its color, shape, and gilded ball agreed with this idea, and these reasons seemed to justify me in this belief.
I guess I was, only--what any one should want with a flagpole is more than I can see!
From the flagpole hung the objectionable white banner.
He'd think the flagpole had grown feet, and was walkin' round, I cal'late.
But he made what he says was "the heaviest and crookedest flagpole it has ever been my lot to see," lashing the bones together with his bits of rope and the remains of the seal traces.
He was more interested in the rough, home-made flagpole which he ventured to bend a little so as to bring its end within reach.
At last his eyes lit upon the flagpole which was projected diagonally from the house, with the flag, which he knew must be the German flag, depending from it.
The flagpolewas a small one located in the center of the enclosure, and from it fluttered the banners of the freshmen and the sophomore classes.
Several students turned to clutch at the ankles of Sam Rover, but he was too nimble for them, and with another leap he reached the flagpole and clutched it tightly.
The flagpole had been planted and from its top fluttered a pair of pink pajamas belonging to the Professor.
To begin with, I'm going to splice the ridge poles of the tents together, making a flagpole of them.
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