Thinking he meant me, I turned hastily and saw him pitch the two flags over the breastwork.
I presume that the men inside the work who got possession of the flags were afterwards sent to Washington with them and possibly may have received medals for their capture.
It did not occur to me that I would be entitled to any credit for picking up the flagsunder such circumstances, but I thought that if I did not find what I was looking for I would return that way and take the flags in with me.
While walking along towards the pike to get in the pathway in which my company had come back, I passed two rebel flags lying on the ground close together.
This city provided a rousing welcome; ladies handed out chocolate, cigarettes and little silk flags from the platform; the train steamed out into the open country between vociferating crowds.
A Berks and a Bucks dump were dug in the trenches, in which were collected all the engineering material required for an assault--tools, sandbags, trench bridges and flags for marking out positions in the captured line.
A storm far worse than any that ever rained around those tattered old flags we had just been looking at, because now there is the added frightfulness of mines and U-boats, and aircraft overhead, dropping death from the very skies.
A temporary platform gay with bunting and flags was erected on the edge of the green where the President and his guests of honor sat.
It's a comfort to have him tell me over and over how his "line to live by" kept him afloat and brought him into port with all flags flying, and that it will do the same for me if I only hold to it fast and hard enough.
Far down the street a band is playing, and in every direction flags are flying in the warm April breeze.
He talked about service flags all the way home, for we kept coming across them in the windows in every street.
I could have spent a week in the building where the trophy flags are, especially in the room that is lined with them, ceiling and all.
A long line of red and white flags extends from the top of the mainyard to the helm and streamers flutter from the mastheads.
While my man Friday fired at them, I pulled out my knife, and cut the flags that bound the poor victim; and loosing his hands and feet I lifted him up, and asked him in the Portuguese tongue, what he was?
The decks of the larger ships are raised in two or more tiers at both bow and stern like those of the Roman galleys, and each ship is flaunting half a score of flags and pennons.
The horses had American flags in their head-stalls, some of the women wore flags and coloured handkerchiefs in their belts, and a young German on the box-seat with me was bewailing the loss of a box of crackers.
For this exploit, the annals say, Jehangir gave Rao Rutton honorary flags and kettle-drums which may have been melted down by the science of the Heralds College into the blazon aforesaid.
This day the ship was dressed withflags from stem to stern, and chiefest of the bunting was the Union-Jack.
From thirty-five of the sixty ships of the fleet boats were lowered, and with flags flying, pulled toward the beach in line abreast, a most spirited scene.
WITH flags flying and bands playing "The Star Spangled Banner," the troops from the transports, which brought fifteen thousand men under command of General Benjamin F.
When the news came on Sunday morning that Major Robert Anderson had evacuated the fort with flags flying and drums beating "Yankee Doodle," the North was electrified with patriotism.
And the sun shone and the flags fluttered and the games were played and the dances danced, and as the gaieties went on and the joyous afternoon passed, his little lordship was simply radiantly happy.
How beautiful the park looked, filled with the thronging people dressed in their gayest and best, and with the flags flying from the tents and the top of the Castle!
Its battlemented towers, decorated with flags and banners floating gayly in the air, its many windows, catching and reflecting every ray of sunlight, its majestic proportions, make it seem a dwelling much to be desired.
As they all stand once more in the glad sunlight, they set fire to the mighty structure, and see the leaping, victorious flames devour it, even to the flags and banners which had so short a time before streamed gayly from its towers.
Pen home, calling at Lilly's, to have a time appointed when to be drawn among the other Commanders of Flags the last year's fight.
It is also reported by some Victuallers that the Duke of Albemarle and Holmes their flags were shot down, and both fain to come to anchor to renew their rigging and sails.
Spain and France, in raising their flags over four-fifths of the American continent, were surely strengthening Imperialism.
The cranes have come back to the temple, The winds are flapping the flags about, Through a flute of reeds I will blow a song.
Exile's Return The cranes have come back to the temple, The winds are flapping the flags about, Through a flute of reeds I will blow a song.
Let my song sigh as the breeze through the cryptomerias, And pause like long flags flapping, And dart and flutter aloft, like a wind-bewildered crane.
By this time the cart with the flags had come up, unattended by anyone except the carter on a mule, and a man sitting in front.
Every one in the saloon was supplied with at least one thin slice from the prize pig which, roasted whole and holding an ear of corn in its teeth, was gaily decorated with the flags of England and the United States.
Their faded flags hung in tatters from the broken masts; their decks had given way; and the moss was already growing in the interstices of the boards.
Before leaving Legionville he had ordered a number of color flags for the sub-legions of the Secretary of War saying, with the confidence of a man who could not but win, "they shall never be lost.
The erection of Fort Recovery was another leap toward the Maumee and soon Indians began to arrive at Fort Greenville bearing white flags and talking of an armistice and peace.
See how neatly it is made of the dried leaves of flags and grasses, woven in and out between three upright stalks.
Instantly half a dozen strange-looking birds started out, flapping and sprawling, with their legs dangling, one or two seeming to slide across the water, till they all disappeared among the flags again.
That era came to meridian when the Federal Government magnanimously returned to the States of the South the captured battle-flags of their regiments.
In the middle of what Mrs. Gano had been used to call "the Lower Plateau" stood the dancing pavilion, finished that day, all but the outward trappings of flagsand lanterns.
The pirates heard of these preparations, and on the night of the fourteenth every vessel of the different flagswas ordered to go to Shaou wan.
At daybreak the flags were spread out, and the drums sounded; they were cheerful the whole day; they eat and drank and made a great noise, which was heard many les off.
But we shall soon find the different flags returning to the high sea to fight both with extraordinary courage and great ferocity.
The townspeople had prepared a brilliant welcome, for the whole length of State Street was decorated with flags and streamers of many and varied devices, the Spanish and American colors blending most amicably.
Flags were looped across the stage, and the curtains in the rear also showed the stars and stripes.
Spanish colors, red and yellow, hung from tower to tower, while American flags floated from the belfry arches.
The major flags of convenience (FOC) attract ships to their register by virtue of low fees, low or nonexistent taxation of profits, and liberal manning requirements.
Both have been instrumental in stemming flight from the national flag to flags of convenience and in attracting foreign-owned ships to the Norwegian and Danish flags.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flags" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
