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 ....

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 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.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde 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.

The Long Night 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.

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

'Spring is coming,' said the old sergeant that morning, as he hoisted the storm-flag; it's getting wildlike. '

Castle Nowhere 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.

Castle Nowhere 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

Castle Nowhere Constance Fenimore Woolson 1867