Excellence, all of them being the very worst of Signpost Work, and such as seem collected for an Insult on the Human understanding.
Hogarth's engraving "Beerstreet" shows us that this sign prevailed in old England, for the characteristic signpost in front of the tavern door is painted in black and white checkered squares.
The signpost of the White Hart Inn served for a gallows.
Usually this cubistic pattern decorates the signpost standing in front of the alehouse, as seen in our design of the sign-painter from the engraving "The Day.
Sorrow's crown of sorrow is, however, attained when a signpost is seen in the distance.
But the wickedness of the Kynance Cove signpost lies in the fact that, although it tells of Lizard Town, its arm points slightly away from it, along a rough cart-track.
Beside Claygate Lane, where the signpost points to Hook, there is a withybed which is a favourite cover for hares.
But now in every road on every side We see your straight and steadfast signpost there.
And after that he put on his goggles and started off again, and by and by, not so very long, they came to a signpost on which was written: "Which road shall I take?
And then who should come out from behind that funny signpost but a great roaring bull with two horns and about ten feet long and big red, snorting nostrils.
Then the boys told how they had been out hunting and had seen the signpost that informed them it was seven miles to Ramsen.
Another signpost begged us to keep to the broad path for Schlingen and deposit waste paper and fruit peelings in wire receptacles attached to the benches for the purpose.
We felt very sobered, and did not recover until we reached a white signpost which entreated us to leave the road and walk through the field path--without trampling down more of the grass than was necessary.
After a few miles there appeared a dilapidated signpost where a bedraggled pathway joined the broad highway through a gap in the fence which now ran alongside.
Sometimes a benevolent signpost advised all drivers of automobiles not to risk travelling thereon, but to follow such and such a detour which would lead back to the road ten or fifteen miles farther on.
So whenever I came to a signpost with "To Basingstoke" upon it I went another way.
At first, for a mile or more, we followed a smooth highway, then we took to a little lonely lane to our left; a signpost at the corner of the roads told us it led to Greywell.
By a signpost we learnt that the road led to Worcester, and, as it appeared to keep on high ground with the promise of fine views, we followed it.
By the way, the first signpost was inscribed "To Welshpool," but farther on this was shortened to simply "Pool.
A signpost pointing "To the Roman Road" brought to mind the times remote when even the wild Welshman in these far-off mountain fastnesses felt the strong and extended arm of the Roman power.
A signpost informed me that the road led to Welshpool.
You come to it most easily by way of Rother Street, and at the end of that thoroughfare will observe a signpost marked “Footpath to Shottery.
He never passed the signpost again, nor caught another glimpse of Mademoiselle Henriette's cap.
At the first signpost Casey canted a malevolent eye upward and went lurching by at top speed.
Mark turned aside from the high road by the crooked signpost and took the same path down under the ash-trees as he had taken with Esther for the first time nearly a year ago.
Halfway to Wychford and close to the boundary of the two parishes an infirm signpost managed with the aid of a stunted hawthorn to keep itself partially upright and direct the wayfarer to Wych Maries.
By the time he had reached the signpost she had disappeared in the wood.
On this May evening they stood by the signpost and looked across the shimmering grass to where the sun hung in his web of golden haze above the edge of the wold.
Without the signpost nobody would have suspected that the grassgrown track thus indicated led anywhere except over the top of the wold.
At this moment he caught sight of the Wych Maries signpost black against that cold green sky.
I remember the dusty smell of that white road-and how the thing that hung on the signpost was-some-how-ugly and nasty.
I saw a signpost farther along the road with something like a long bundle--it was rather like a limp bolster, I fancy--hanging from it.
That signpost you saw-it wasn't a signpost, you know.
Just outside the station were four cross-roads with a signpost in the middle of them to tell you where each one led.
From Miss Barley's house to the signpost was a very short distance, and here it was that Jessie and her grandfather were to meet every day and walk home together.
One officer told me to go back the same way, via "Signpost Lane.
You look out on your way home, and you'll see a signpost with Whitcrow on one of the spokes.
The bent signpost at the corner of the deserted moorland road, with its arrow and its directions, somehow seemed a strange, shadowy symbol of the impossibility of the attainment of many human aspirations.
The Spider takes her place in the centre, on the little cushion formed of the inaugural signpost and the bits of thread left over.
In the case of each radius laid, the surplus is treated in the same fashion, so that the signpost continues to increase in size.
The signpost planted at the crossing and pointing down the road to the south-east bore the inscription "Six kilometres to Neuve Chapelle.
I had just passed the signpost when the comparative peace of morning was awfully shattered by the united roar and crash of hundreds of guns.
They lurched past us as we stood by the signpost in an intermittent stream, bearing the wounded men from the fight.
A signpost told him that the dusty ribbon was the Nine-Mile road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signpost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
