"Yellow flag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mustard pots was there, a squat fifty-foot carrier painted a gaudy yellow—the Folly Bay house color—flying a yellow flag with a black C in the center. She was loading fish from two trollers, one lying on each side. One or two more were waiting, ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... at Cawsand Bay four days afterwards, when we joined her, leaving the prizes in charge of the agent. I found her with the yellow flag flying at the masthead. She had been put in quarantine on her arrival, which we paid off with the foretop-sail, as we sailed the day after for a six weeks' cruise in the chops of the Channel. At the end of that period we returned to our anchorage ...
— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman
... 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
... leap out from a corner tower of the fort, and a few moments later the dull "boom" of a fairly-heavy gun made itself heard. At the same moment a tiny ball soared aloft to the head of the flagstaff on the battlements, which ball presently broke abroad and revealed itself as a large yellow flag of triangular shape, the apex of the triangle, or fly, being circular instead of ending in a point. There was also a design of some description embroidered on the flag in the favourite Chinese blue, but what the design represented Frobisher could not imagine. He had ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... which a regiment was passing in review, swelled the inspiring music of a full military band. Beyond the city every near-by elevation was occupied by a stout block-house, each displaying the red and yellow flag of Spain, and forming the nucleus for radiating lines of rifle-pits. Far down at the entrance to the bay rose the grim walls of Santiago's Morro Castle, and beyond it floated against the blue sky soft smoke clouds that Ridge felt ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe
... 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 |
