beacon-fires

He ordered all his ships to hoist lanterns in the night and instructed them to keep beacon-fires burning in iron cressets above their high stern rails.8

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

He ordered all his ships to hoist lanterns in the night and instructed them to keep beacon-fires burning in iron cressets above their high stern rails.8

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Thus they advised, but he did not follow their counsel; for there had instilled itself into him a great desire to take Athens for the second time, partly from obstinacy1350 and partly because he meant to signify to the king in Sardis that he was in possession of Athens by beacon-fires through the islands.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

So the wide world heard of Maya, the Child of the Kingdom, and from land to land men carried the stinging arrows of her wit, or signalled the beacon-fires of her scorn, while seas and shores unknown echoed her mad and rapt music, or answered the veiled agony that derided itself with choruses of laughter, from every mystic whisper of the wave, or roar of falling headlands.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Here of old, when beacon-fires blazed on the hill-tops, "each with warlike tidings fraught," flashing their warning of coming trouble from "the false Scottes," the people of these regions were wont to hurry for safety, breathlessly bearing with them whatsoever valuables they prized and had time to save.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Great fear fell, then, upon the village, and great wrath smouldered in many breasts; and, as surely as if they had lighted beacon-fires, or sent mounted couriers far and wide, the evil news was flashed into the remotest mountain nooks and down to the hermitages of the fishermen.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

Her religion could only be a sympathetic and contagious flame, running from soul to soul, as beacon-fires catch at night and illuminate a whole tract of country.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

"Oh!" she replied, laughing, "I could go on and tell you more about bonfires, beacon-fires, signals, drift-wood fires, and gypsy-tea fires; but I have told you enough for to-day."

Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories Anonymous

So for nine days and nights they sailed without let or hindrance, and on the tenth they came in sight of Ithaca, which they approached so near that they saw the smoke and flame of the beacon-fires along the coast.

Stories from the Odyssey

The master-class did not want ideas -- it only wanted to be let alone; and so it put in the seats of authority men who were blind to the blazing beacon-fires of the future.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923