Hawkins; and a similar prime mover has been suggested for the purpose of winding a clock for a bell signal station on the Northern coast of England.
When he had made a complete survey, he gave the signal with the trumpet, and ordered the cohorts to advance slowly.
And had not Catiline, who was in front of the senate-house, been too hasty to give the signal to his associates, there would that day have been perpetrated the most atrocious outrage since the city of Rome was founded.
To the same spot came Jugurtha with most of his adherents, unarmed, according to agreement; when immediately, on a signal being given, he was assailed on all sides by those who were lying in wait.
The judge made a signal to an officer of the court, and that functionary quitted the judgment hall.
The signal was immediately answered in a similar fashion, and in a few minutes a man emerged from the darkness of a by-street.
The party was noticed by a sentinel and fired upon; and this seemed to be the signal to call every man to his post at the embrasures.
During the night he will give a signal of his presence by repeated barkings, which are increased upon the least cause of alarm.
These may be seen, and the patches of heather, and the patient colley watching for a signal to collect the scattered flock, dotted, as it appears to be, over the almost inaccessible heights.
No notice, no kind word, seemed to have any effect upon him if offered by a stranger, but he obeyed and understood the slightest signal from his owner.
The gentlemen then rode for three miles, when the dog received his signal from the master to return for the shilling he had seen put under the stone.
He immediately gives the signal to slacken, when down go half the enemy on their backs, and are run away with merrily by the successful party, who drag them over the mark with the greatest ease.
At a given signal the assistant lets the kite go, and if all circumstances be favourable it will soar upwards with great rapidity.
At a given signal each player dashes towards his opponent, and strives to overturn his hoop.
At a given signal the players all start together, and each endeavours to reach the winning post (which may be any distant object) before his companions.
Signal haulyards are for hauling up the colours, and pass through a small sheave, in the truck (10), at the end of the topmast.
This gesture is used either as a signal of alarm or defiance, and the force of the rabbit's hind foot is really astonishing.
The duchess took this as the signalfor departing, aware that if this topic were once begun, it would prove no easy matter to stop Sir Patricius in his eulogium on the Romans.
The Duke of Tyrconnel gallantly headed and led on his own regiment of dragoon guards in headlong charge, with signal bravery, and not without due effect.
This signal was to announce to the troops of the Prince of Orange instantly to commence their march as soon as summoned by the cannon's roar.
In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the church-shell was afterwards used for many years as a signal to begin and stop work in the haying field.
It was a source of great comfort and companionship to them both that they couldsignal to each other every day by pounding on their mortars.
The case was, therefore, a signal illustration of the way in which the House has impaired its ability to consider legislation by claiming the exclusive privilege of proposing legislation.
There could be no more signal proof of President Cleveland's constancy of soul than the fact that he was working hard at his veto forge, with the sparks falling thickly around, right in his honeymoon.
In August, President Cleveland gave signal evidence of his devotion to civil service reform by appointing a Republican, because of his special qualifications, to be chief examiner for the Civil Service Commission.
The case is a signal instance of the substitution of executive arrangements for treaty engagements which has since then been such a marked tendency in the conduct of the foreign relations of the United States.
As the hours passed and brought to him nosignal that the girl had been found, his hopes ebbed.
Each of you pass the signal down the line by firing four shots.
I cut off the other cars and gave the signal to start," he explained triumphantly.
Prince flashed a handkerchief as a signal and Sanders rode down in the open skirting the timber.
So the white wings of the "Resolution" swept down upon the lifelong quietude of Hawaii like a messenger from heaven, and the signal gun sent the first echoes to the startled mountains of the little kingdom.
At a signal from the trumpeter the horses were entered unannounced, and everybody betted wildly.
I had leave to stop till evening, unless I heard a signal gun, upon hearing which I was to return immediately on board, or suffer the consequences.
Smith, requesting him to notify all enlisted men of the battalion when and where to assemble silently next morning in the dark, how to arm themselves, from whom to take orders, what signal to watch for, and other important matters.
We recognized united and instantaneous action at the signal on the part of three hundred officers and several thousand men as the most vitally important element of success.
Is that a signal fire, or something like that, by any chance, Dad?
In reality, this was a signal to Michac's spy at the parapet of the Acropolis battlement to pass word to Michac to speak.
It is the whistle of the Great Bear himself, and I have no doubt it is a signal to retire.
Their cheering also was a signal to the twenty men of Rogers on the other side of the river, and they, too, rushed forward.
It was the warriors signaling to one another, the first signal they have given.
A venerable codfisher had been standing off and on our vehicle for some time, with the signal for speaking set in his inquisitive countenance.
Gorsuch made a signalto his men, and they all fell into line.
The signal he had heard meant, "Is business good to-day?
What would the fat Hemerlingue find to say of this signal favour, he who for so long had had to content himself with the Nisham?
Don't disturb yourselves," the good Nabob would signal with his hand, entering on tiptoe.
This was the signal for the first bands to begin, the choral societies started in their turn, and the noise growing step by step, the road from Giffas to Saint-Romans was nothing but an uninterrupted bellow.
We replied by showing Spanish colours, as before; upon which the stranger threw out some signal that we could not understand, and after displaying it for some few minutes hauled it down and hoisted another.
In spite of his strongest effort, his voice shook, and that one signal from the depths of his despair called forth the one and only answer of which her headlong, passionate nature was capable.
It burnt, as though the feverish sparkle in the wide-opened eyes was but a signal of an inner devouring fire, and there was something, too, in the feeble smile which hurt Nora by reason of its very piteousness.
Through it like a little line of light fading into nothingness, ran the signal string attached to the quaint contrivance by which the King could secure, when the mood seized him, the presence of an opponent for some midnight argument.
So he strode through the screen to the larger tent, and gave the signal for the uprising of Majesty.
Yet there was one thing which must be done before the dawn, if all was to be well, and Birbal looking somewhat crestfallen, stepped forward at a signal from the throne; behind him came William Leedes the jeweller.
Polly disappeared, but when tea was served a short time later a signal to Esther reported that she had met with no success.
Polly whistled softly, two bright spots of color showing on her high cheek bones, a signal with her of being desperately in earnest.
Leaving the wireless house, which was on the upper bridge deck just abaft the chart house and signal locker, the two boys slid down the ladders to the lower deck.
He barely caught the lines and coils of air hose in time to save them, and Mart, watching as he pumped, saw four distinct jerks--the signal to pull up.
He pulled the air hose twice, then twice again, with the signal for more air.
The antients gloried to describe, And held such wonders dear; For of the Psylli's signal tribe, 'Twas their delight to hear.
Few months have pass'd, since near this spot I gain'd this signal friend.
No one interrupted him, though Lady Mildred had the tact to give the departingsignal before he had quite finished.
The ten-minutes' law has more than expired, and, at an imperceptible signal from the Master, the pack moves on slowly towards the gorse.
I venture to do so, and I have also to ask you, Captain Bunting, to signal her to stop that she may receive Miss Nielsen and me.
Have you received orders from Captain Bunting,' I asked, 'to signal and bring-to any homeward ship that may come along?
The opening shot by the Professor was a signal for George and John.
This was the signal for applause and clapping of hands.
When all was ready, thesignal was given, and the various divisions sprang to their allotted work.
The first appearance of the slightest gray in the east was the signal for preparation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
