flag-pole

Was it: Col. Bison, 1st MT Militia in the Conservatory with a flag-pole?

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It certainly is an example of the "flag-pole" thinking I was talking about, rather than boxes of categories.

The Four Worlds Theory 2005

He snatched at chimney pots and street lights, at lightning vanes and flag-pole finials, but still he sprang onward.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

They come to the two holdings farthest down; easy to see they are nearing the village now; both the houses have white curtains in the little window facing toward the road, and a flag-pole stuck up on top of the hayloft for Constitution Day.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

If there had been a flag-pole near by Nicolette would have triumphantly hoisted the Union Jack!

Consultant Care Wirdnam, Sharon 1996

I looked landward - there was the beach, and a fair-sized native town behind it, and a big building with a verandah and a flag-pole - it was a deuced odd-looking flag, striped and blazoned - some shipping line, perhaps.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

It rolled to within about a foot of the hole in which the flag-pole stood.

Five Have A Mystery To Solve Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1962

We pounded along, stopped, landed soldiers; went on, landed custom-house clerks to levy toll in what looked like a God-forsaken wilder - ness, with a tin shed and a flag-pole lost in it; landed more soldiers to take care of the custom-house clerks, presumably.

Heart of Darkness 1960

The official said, ` Well, we haven't a seat left in the stadium but it so happens we have just finished painting a flag-pole, and the painter's chair is still on the rope and if you don't mind being hoisted up to the top of the flagpole, we will be glad to do that so you can witness the game.

So It's Dulles Ditchwater 1956