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  • The man who had been stationed there with the blue-lights, had gone.

    The Ghost Pirates 2007

  • The Old Man pushed one of the blue-lights into his coat pocket, and stood upright.

    The Ghost Pirates 2007

  • He had the box of blue-lights in his hands, and behind him, came the two boys carrying the flares.

    The Ghost Pirates 2007

  • The man with the blue-lights followed, and also vanished from view.

    The Ghost Pirates 2007

  • The ship could not go into the harbour of Alexandria at night; it has a dangerous entrance; so we sent up our rockets and blue-lights, and remained outside the lighthouse till dawn.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • There only remained aboard the Golden Mary, John Mullion the man who had kept on burning the blue-lights (and who had lighted every new one at every old one before it went out, as quietly as if he had been at an illumination); John Steadiman; and myself.

    The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

  • In a moment he and another were burning blue-lights, and the ship and all on board seemed to be enclosed in a mist of light, under a great black dome.

    The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

  • “Burn two blue-lights,” cried old Jem; and it was done.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The only door that we could see was of heavy black oak, without any knocker; but I clinched my hand, having thick gloves on, and made what I thought a very creditable knock, while the Major stood by, with his blue-lights up, and keenly gazed and gently smiled.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • We made a shift, with much labour and trouble, to got near enough to one another to divide the blue-lights (they were no use after that night, for the sea-water soon got at them), and to get a tow-rope out between us.

    The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens 2004

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