Storm Flag

The storm-flag of the Empire is now going to wave over nations and oceans; the sun is going to shine on a great slaughter .... ❋ Unknown (1918)

From the flag-pole of the Ottawa they could see the square red storm-flag with the black centre standing out like a piece of tin. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

A faint colour, softer than the storm-flag which had fluttered there a minute before, rose to her cheeks; her lips began to tremble. ❋ Stanley John Weyman (1891)

By noon of three hundred days a year, straight from the wild pass to the west, there comes sweeping down a gale that would snap the stoutest flag-staff into flinders, and that whips even a storm-flag threadbare in a few brief weeks. ❋ Charles King (1888)

'Spring is coming,' said the old sergeant that morning, as he hoisted the storm-flag; it's getting wildlike. ' ❋ Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867)

The air was chilly, and a fine rain was falling, the afterpiece of the equinoctial; the wet storm-flag hung heavily down over the fort on the height, and the waves came in sullenly. ❋ Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867)

The little white fort, too, began to assume its winter manners; the storm-flag was hoisted; there were evening fires upon the broad hearth-stones; the chaplain, having finished everything about ❋ Constance Fenimore Woolson (1867)