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  • The Conference opened with a stout determination to be brilliant and eventful; the hotels were full, the streets beflagged, the programme of entertainments was admirable, and even the English weather seemed to make an effort.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • From their smoky beehives, ten stories high, the unwashed look down upon the open squares and gardens of the wealthy; and gay people sunning themselves along Princes Street, with its mile of commercial palaces all beflagged upon some great occasion, see, across a gardened valley set with statues, where the washings of the Old

    Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

  • Japanese or the Russians entering the Heads past the pretty township, and the beflagged bathing-enclosures on the beach below.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • From behind the refreshment-stall where, with Mrs. Long, she was pouring out cups of tea and serving cheesecakes and sausage-rolls by the hundred, Polly looked proudly across the beflagged hall, to the merry group of which her sister was the centre.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • El – Wijh, both beflagged, the round Burj of the fort, and the cubical white-washed lighthouse crowning its rocky point.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • His first shock was when he was met at the station by the local band and conducted up the Station Road and down the beflagged High Street to the accompaniment of martial and patriotic strains.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 Various

  • Polite society, to return to it, preferred the alternative of staying at home and mowing the lawn or drinking raspberry vinegar on its own beflagged verandah; looking forward in the afternoon to the lacrosse match.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Villas and streets are still beflagged, and by this time we know every patriotic song in the "Vaterlandslieder" book by heart.

    A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson

  • The seas are full of ships -- "brave beflagged vessels with swelling sails."

    A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

  • There was not a corner of the earth that wasn't beflagged.

    A Briton Looks at the World 1934

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