She is a charmed city, whose name is painted on a signboard outside the gates lest the traveller should pass her by unwittingly.
He halted for a moment, and then went on again, meaning to pass the signboard and wait on the quay for the ferry.
A patch of blue water shone at the foot, framing a small dark square--the signboard of the "Four Lords" Inn.
The signboard was creaking that night, and a thick drizzle drove in gusts past the door.
A pair of fish-scales faces the entrance, and the jolly pilchards themselves hang over your head, on a signboard that creaks mightily when the wind blows from the south.
To distinguish his profession from that of a surgeon, the barber-surgeon placed a striped pole or a signboard outside his door, from which was suspended a basin for receiving the blood (Figure 4).
They were in the grocery and bakery business on a prominent corner on First street and their signboard caught my eye.
Indeed, the school and the cobbling often went on together--a fact commemorated in the addition to the Hackleton signboard of the Piddington nail on which he used to fix his thread while teaching the children.
The signboard was swinging sadly over the closed door, and at the first glance it looked as if the house was deserted.
Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.
No man desires the signboard which he sees, he desires the garage, the objective, the ulterior thing.
The object desired and the attainment of desire are no more alike than a signboard on the road is like the garage to which it points and which it recommends to the traveler.
A wrong signboard isn't much use to anyone, is it?
If they have a signboard to go by, it will be as good to them as a printed book would be to most people.
Pushing on, they soon came to where another signboard had been located; but the board had been knocked off with a stone or a hammer and was missing.
A fellow who would destroy a signboard ought to be locked up," was Whopper's comment.
Over the front door is a signboard bearing the legend: "Max Steinmetz, Allegemene Handelaar en Produkten Kooper.
Above his head was a signboard bearing the legend: "Nathan Steinmetz, Allegemene Handelaar.
The source of it was plain--an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered "The Salvation Army.
Real estate appeared as a part of the business of hardware stores and milliners' shops, so that one was constantly reminded of the heterogeneous announcements on the signboard of Mr. Wegg.
As we gathered on the platform, we saw that the signboard on the station-building, for the name of the town, had been put up, but was veiled by a banner draped over it.
And savoury fumes of roasting geese and fowls do not now arise to the signboard of Queen Pédauque swinging sadly in the damp wind which rusts it.
But I do not want to attack her too hardly, as he is the patroness of men of letters, and serves as a signboard to the bookshop of that good M.
My heart beat violently when I again saw the Rue Saint Jacques, the clock of Saint Benoit le Betourne, the signboard of the Three Virgins and the Saint Catherine of M.
And as a human document there is a touch of peculiar, almost pathetic interest about the Schoolmaster's Signboard preserved by Bonifacius Amerbach, and now with his collection in the Basel Museum (Plate 3).
From either the honest dominie of the Signboard or some other, we may be sure he sought the means to read and digest them for himself.
Copernicus was, indeed, a man of forty when Holbein was painting this Signboardin 1516.
And this very Signboard may have paid for lessons which he could not otherwise afford.
As every house had then its name and a signboard to exhibit it--numbers being not yet applied to houses--these were no exception to the rule.
I don't know which way to go--there's no signboard to direct me.
It need hardly be stated that the information given on this signboard was incorrect.
In 1859, in front of the old Vineyard Inn, a signboard was set up which stated that "This house is celebrated from old associations connected with the City of London.
No Hurry," is the legend displayed on the gable of another lonely inn at Upware in the Fens; it might as well be written on the signboard of "The Sheffield Arms.
The inn there had on its signboard the representation of a fat monk with the legend "The Grey Friar," a fresh sign to me.
Perhaps the young artist had seen Watteau's famous signboard for Gersaint, now in the German Emperor's Collection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arrow; blaze; direction; fist; guide; hand; index; lead; needle; pointer; poster; sign; signboard; signpost
