Automobile Routes The Grand Canyon may be reached by automobile from Flagstaff and Williams.
Nearest railroad stations areFlagstaff and Gallup, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Flagstaff was formerly the starting-point for travellers to the cañon, and we will choose it now, for the old stage road offers an interesting ride.
Throughout the whole distance of seventy miles fromFlagstaff to the cañon, there are but one or two spots where water is to be found.
On a part of Flagstaff Hill there was a thin stratum of calcareous earth, in which shells are found.
After visiting Longwood and Napoleon's tomb we rode to Flagstaff Hill to search for fossil shells.
And you were not on your way to Flagstaff to meet Dick Merriwell there?
Going toFlagstaff to meet Frank Merriwell's brother, did you say?
The famous flagstaff was re-erected, guarded by a block-house, and a party of soldiers and sailors were sent to garrison Kororáreka.
In their absence the stockade was rushed, and, for the third time, the flagstaff hewn down.
As time went on the Ngapuhi themselves re-erected the historic flagstaff in token of reconciliation.
Look out for the flagstaff at the gate, and presint my respects to the general.
Again and again theflagstaff fell, and again and again we replaced it.
And just then Mademoiselle Diane came walking swiftly towards them from the end of the terre-plein by the flagstaff tower.
But with the ringing of the sanctus bell a drum began to beat--as it seemed, on the very ridge of the chapel roof, but really from the leads of the flagstaff tower high above it.
The rest of the story he told perfunctorily, omitting all mention of the fight on the flagstaff tower and telling no more than was needful of the last adventure of the rapids.
He must have seen them; for he came straight to where they stood, and gripping John by the arm pointed towards the quay, visible beyond the edge of the flagstaff tower.
It seemed to sleep with the forests around it, its river gate shut close-lidded against the day, its empty flagstaff a needle of gold trembling upon the morning sky.
He saw the flagstaffhalliards shake out the red cross of England in the morning sunlight.
She stood by theflagstaff with a pistol in her hand.
Weather had frayed out the halliards on the flagstaff over Cape Diamond, but a sailor climbed the pole and lashed the British colours beneath the truck.
In the doorway at the foot of the flagstafftower a woman's skirt fluttered for an instant and was gone.
He knew nothing of the white flag at the gateway, but had formed his conclusions from the bugle-calls and the bare flagstaff above the tower.
Some trick of gesture reappears as Diane lifts her face suddenly towards the flagstaff tower.
He looked like a flagstaff with the banner falling loosely around it in an indolent wind.
The little man took down his lifted flagstaff to wipe his little bald head, and he could not get it up again, but stood there still and helpless.
Albert had complained to me the day we had ridden out to the Indian dwellings at Flagstaff that his saddle fretted some galled spots which he had chafed on his trip to Moran's Point.
Finally I called Flagstaff as I had Coolidge, directed that the authorities be notified of the facts, and ordered an extra to bring out the sheriff and posse.
While I was still cogitating over this, the special train I had ordered out from Flagstaff came in sight, and in a few moments was stopped where I was.
It read,-- "Hold letters pending arrival of special agent Jackson, due in Flagstaff October twentieth.
He may telegraph to Washington, and if there's any chance of the Postmaster-General revoking his order I must go back to Flagstaff on No.
He wanted to be on the ground a day in advance, and I could easily be back in Flagstaff before the arrival of the special agent.
A few minutes later we had reached Son Espanolet, had passed the house of our friend the Consul with its flagstaff and gaily painted shields, and were back again under the homely roof of the Casa Tranquila.
Following in their footsteps, we sped towards the Town Hall, in front of which, as we now gathered, the annual ceremony of saluting the flagstaff of King Jaime the Conquistador was to take place.
Here also is the Flagstaff Tower, to which the ladies of the station were first taken when the hope of speedy relief from Meerut was yet with them.
Opposite the entrance to the channel, which is formed of red sandstone cliffs, stands the flagstaff of the signal station, where flags of every nation are run up, showing the departure and arrival of their ships.
Then Rangiriri came in sight, with its green knoll and flagstaff marking the spot where the natives, in 1864, held at bay and shelled the English troops, under Colonel Campbell, in the swamp below.
He ran up a flag on the flagstaff in front of his house to greet us as we passed, and we saw his little yacht buoyed in the cove below the house.
The flagstaff on the tower of the Residency is the same as was there during the siege.
They were entering the inlet and the officers raised their heads barely enough to peer alongside of the steersman, over the front and beyond the flagstaff with its fluttering bunting.
He headed out in the river, where, because of the fog, he could barely see the flagstaff at the bow, and began a wide sweeping circle with the intention of descending the stream.
The haulyards of the flagstaff were then partially cut down with a penknife.
He made some noise, and a sentry challenged, but without answering, the rest hurried towards the half-moon battery where the flagstaff is.
I will only ask you that when you are ready to receive the papers you will fly a small red pennant from the little flagstaff among the rocks.
Howbeit, the next morning after she had returned and Zephas had sailed away, she flew a red bandana handkerchief on the little flagstaff before the house.
The friend is waiting there for me, and I thought I would drive the car through to Flagstaff from the Needles myself.
One party went toward the place where the stolen car had been left, and the other headed along the Flagstaff trail.
It's necessary for me to go on to Flagstaff to-night, or early to-morrow morning.
It had passed through the mails, and had been posted in Flagstaff several days before.
Hank stole an ax and we moved along the Flagstaff road early in the morning.
We now had the British Jack flying away on the flagstaff above our heads.
We had a young midshipman with us, Mr Franks, not fifteen years old; and while the fire was at the hottest, in the middle of it he hoisted the British ensign on the flagstaff on the top of the fort.
Then the fleet opened upon them, and they fled for dear life while a sailor sprang to the flagstaff and pulled down the Confederate flag.
The flagstaff of the fort was shot away; but the flag soon re-appeared, waving from a sponge-staff.
So we journeyed toFlagstaff with him and were married.
We drove through ordinary desert country to Williams and from there on past Flagstaff and eastward to Holbrook.
Soon after the rangers had set out to look for her, an automobile traveling from Flagstaff reported they had met a thinly dressed woman walking swiftly out into the desert.
He could see Cary now, her long, straight hair flying in the wind as she tore by the flagstaff to meet him on his return from duty.
As he passed the flagstaffand entered the shadows of the trees, a small whirlwind struck him.
The children splashed their way along, their eyes fixed on the flagstaff hut.
The look-out man by the flagstaffwas ready with the bunting for signals; and when he hauled it, all knew now that it would be no flaunting forth of defiance, but an appeal for aid.
But it was most tantalising; and again and again Syd was for climbing up to the flagstaff to see what was going on, duty to the men alone keeping him to his post.
From time to time Syd climbed to the flagstaff to watch the stranger, which was approaching fast, and also to sweep the distant horizon in search of help in what promised to be his dire need.
And as to Mr Terry, as has gone up where I planted the flagstaff this morning, don't you fret about him.
He was answered by a cheer from the little group about Syd, as three of the French sailors ran up at a trot, and began to mount the flagstaff path.
All hands were soon at work, and meanwhile Syd had gone up to the flagstaff with a glass to see that the boat was half-way back to the French frigate.
Think the man up yonder by the flagstaffcan see them?
I was up at the flagstaff an hour ago, and Mr Terry's there now.
Syd went on himself to the upper gun, after bidding the man at the flagstaff keep out of sight.
The old Flagstaff Hill and the old cemetery were two objects which I sought for on the earliest opportunity, and as the business day-time was so full of work, I took the early morning.
With Betteredge's help, I soon stood in the right position to see the Beacon and the Coast-guard flagstaff in a line together.
To walk out on the South Spit, until I get the South Spit Beacon, and the flagstaff at the Coast-guard station above Cobb's Hole in a line together.
A noiseless run of a third of a mile brought him to a corner, where, looking southward by day, one could see the flagstaff and the big white gateway, and beyond it the main office of the quartermaster's corral.
Though it was barely six o’clock in the morning when the company reached the flagstaff (then standing in front of J.
At last the morning sun lighted up the low walls and green parapets of the fort, and from its tall flagstaff the Stars and Stripes were seen floating gracefully in the wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flagstaff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bar; pole; rod; scape; stalk; stem; stick; tongue
