"Yellow flag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time he had discovered that he was a very different personage on board the Proserpine from what the other had appeared to consider him while in his native island. He might have expressed himself aloud, indeed; but at that instant a column of smoke glanced out of the bow port of the Minerva—a yellow flag was shown aloft—and then came the ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper
... the fateful yellow flag was flying over the house, and all arrangements had been made. Caroline was to do the necessary cooking, and Charles was to bring the food and leave it in the yard. Old Giles Blewett was to come every day and attend to the stock, as well ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Magazine, published in London, May 13, 1776, the writer states that the colors of the American navy were "first a flag with a union and thirteen stripes, and the commander's flag a yellow flag with a ...
— The True Story of the American Flag • John H. Fow
... started for the island in his boat. The aldermen and their families dine at the Insane Asylum, and he has gone with them. You might have seen his yellow flag on the water as ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens
... the guarding of travellers of the allied countries at sea, and even those of the neutrals, should be a most galling thing to the Big-Admiral's thwarted ambition, looking at it from the point of view of one who to white-whiskered age has retained the schoolboy's natural love of the black and yellow flag. A pirate, he would say, has as much right to live as wasps or tigers. The Anglo-Saxon navies, he might argue, have a certain code of rules for use at sea; they let women get first into the boats, for instance, when ships are sinking, and they rescue drowning mariners when they can: no actual harm ...
— Tales of War • Lord Dunsany |
