guideboards

None of the commercial highways of the sea or land, marked with buoys and lamps, fences and guideboards, is so unmistakably indicated as are these channels of the vanished Tuolumne glaciers.

The Yosemite National Park 1969

None of the commercial highways of the sea or land, marked with buoys and lamps, fences and guideboards, is so unmistakably indicated as are these channels of the vanished Tuolumne glaciers.

The Yosemite National Park 1899

He laughed and said he had been mislead by guideboards all his life, and now he was glad to be guided by a wire.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

True it is that no other plain is so well supplied with guideboards.

Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. Robert Green Ingersoll 1866

Boone, the county seat of Watauga County, was our destination, and, ever since morning, the guideboards and the trend of the roads had notified us that everything in this region tends towards Boone as a center of interest.

On Horseback Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Boone, the county seat of Watauga County, was our destination, and, ever since morning, the guideboards and the trend of the roads had notified us that everything in this region tends towards Boone as a center of interest.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

He had that sagacity without which learning is a mere incumbrance, and he had also a fair share of that learning without which sagacity is like a traveller with a good horse, but who cannot read the directions on the guideboards.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

An interactive map system consisting of two electric 47-inch touch-screen guideboards equipped with multiple user interfaces has been set up at two of the 32 exits of Ginza subway station on a trial basis, subway operator Tokyo Metro said.

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion 2009

We talk of literature as if it were a mere matter of rule and measurement, a series of processes long since brought to mechanical perfection: but it would be less incorrect to say that it all lies in the future; tried by the out-door standard, there is as yet no literature, but only glimpses and guideboards; no writer has yet succeeded in sustaining, through more than some single occasional sentence, that fresh and perfect charm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

Thousands of people are around each of these signs, and each one is doing his best to convince the traveler that his particular board is the only one upon which the least reliance can be placed, and that if his road is taken the reward for so doing will be infinite and eternal, while all the other roads are said to lead to hell, and all the makers of the other guideboards are declared to be heretics, hypocrites, and liars.

Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. Robert Green Ingersoll 1866