A steersman who has captured a very curious specimen carries it off carefully to press between the leaves of his signal-book, like a flower. ❋ Various (N/A)
Each boat was equipped with compass, lead-line, signal-book, lamp, box of biscuits, and beaker of water. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)
The first thing Flinders did, when he received the trunk, was to take out his naval signal-book and tear it to pieces. ❋ Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 (1914)
As he watched her read it, the phrase shaped by his countenance might be read without the aid of any signal-book -- ❋ Unknown (1907)
He also took out his naval signal-book, which he destroyed, lest it should be seen by any French officer. ❋ Ernest Scott (1903)
Morgan kept on shedding private Red Fleet signals out of the signal-book, as the fog cleared, till we was answered by three destroyers. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Not only had many situations been discussed, as Berry tells us, but new signals had been inserted in the signal-book to enable the admiral's intentions to be quickly understood. ❋ Mahan, A. T. (1897)
Between eight and nine o'clock the other frigate commanders came on board the “Victory;” aides-de-camp, as it were, waiting to the last moment to receive such orders as might require more extensive wording, or precise explanation, than is supplied by the sententious phrases of the signal-book. ❋ Mahan, A. T. (1897)
Two men went aloft to loose the topsail, and the rest cleared away gear, while Poop-deck examined the signal-book. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)
Our signal-book was at once produced, our answering pennant run half-mast up, and we then began to read off the following signal: ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Nelson's school -- a Scotchman -- who at Camperdown, unable, just as the action began, to read some complicated signal from his chief, flung his signal-book on the deck, and in broad Scotch exclaimed, "D---- me! up with the hellem an 'gang in the middle o't." ❋ Unknown (1886)
A steersman who has captured a very curious specimen, carries it off carefully to press between the leaves of his signal-book, like a flower. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)
He at once dived into the chart-house for the signal-book, and presently he and his second lieutenant were poring over it in an effort to read the communication. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
It will take him some little time to decipher the flags; and we shall gain a few minutes while he tries to fathom their meaning from his own private signal-book. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
My companion dived down below, and in less than a minute afterwards returned with the list and the French signal-book. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
"Run up the answering pennant," said I to the signal-man, as I turned up the number in the signal-book. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Annesley, who was busy turning over the leaves of the signal-book. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
The failure sprang from the signal-book and tactical inefficiency of the fleet; for which he, having lately joined, was not answerable. ❋ Unknown (1877)
