guide-board

But taking fresh courage from the guide-board, which indicated her approach to N--, she travelled bravely on.

Dawn Harriet A. Adams

In the year 1824 a guide-board was set up at the crotch of the roads, proclaiming the fact that the distance to Lexington through Concord was two miles longer than through

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

According to my invariable custom, I mistook my way; and, emerging upon the road, I turned my back instead of my face towards Concord, and walked on very diligently till a guide-board informed me of my mistake.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

A few miles from here, at a cross roads, is a guide-board:

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

But that we may not die eternally, God has given us the Bible as our guide-board; and the Bible is constantly pointing to Jesus Christ as the sinner's refuge.

Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

Two wagons filled with young people passed along the principal street at an early hour, raising a cloud of dust as they turned the corner where stood a guide-board pointing out the _plain_ road to the pond.

Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner Mrs. M. H. Maxwell

As one passes through the town he sees a guide-board pointing to Barrytown on the river, some three or four miles away, where that Gen. John Armstrong once lived, the author of those celebrated addresses published to the army at Newburg, which might have resulted in trouble among the troops had it not been for Washington's level head.

The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Charles Gilbert Hine

That looks very like a guide-board pointing to Fame.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

Even if a man's life were to serve as a mere guide-board to the universe, it would supply to all who know him the main thing the universe seems to be without.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

But a man who, like Walt Whitman, is more than a guide-board to the universe, who deliberately takes time to live in the whole of it, who becomes a part of the universe to all who live always, who makes the universe human to us -- companionable, -- such a man may not be able to fix

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903