signal-lights

The signal-lights "Ship on Fire" flashed along the river, and a picket-boat from a flagship, with other boats, approached as near as they could to the burning ship.

The Hero of Garside School

Guided by the signal-lights at the station, I moved along at a smart trot and soon recognised the quick tramping of animals ahead.

Argentina from a British Point of View Various

It was always lighted when David looked for it, and he always sat watching until he should see the colored signal-lights swing out on the track beyond, for then he knew the flagman's work was over for the day – that is, if all was well on the road.

This Way to Christmas 1916

One did some simple thing -- started a strike, or sawed lumber too short, or burned a wheat-field, or put nails in harvesting machinery, or missent perishable goods, or changed signal-lights on railroads, or drove copper nails into fruit-trees, so they died.

Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

We saw the American flag fly to the winds on each ship, and the flashing of signal-lights even in the dawning.

Soldier Silhouettes on our Front 1917

Sometimes they are signal-lights flashing from an observation balloon anchored in the darkness over the trenches to guard the troops from dangers in the air.

Soldier Silhouettes on our Front 1917

Sometimes they are signal-lights flashing out of the darkness from a patrolling plane overhead, or a blazing trail of fire as a patrol falls to its death in a battle by night.

Soldier Silhouettes on our Front 1917

Fran's face was a dimpled sea of pink and crimson waves, with starry lights in her black eyes for signal-lights.

Fran 1913

Beyond the veranda screen the fireflies were flashing; farther out, the little green and red side-lights of the steaming launches, like other colored fireflies, were sliding by; to the mastheads of the battle-ships the red and white signal-lights were winking and glowing.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

It was not difficult to feel the enthusiasm of the captain over an invention of such momentous possibilities, especially as the Z99 was well out in the harbour now and we could see her flashing her red and green signal-lights back to us.

The Dream Doctor 1908