signal-fire

Light a signal-fire with all the rum to flag down a passing ship?

"Gygaxian" James Maliszewski 2008

Enough smoke hung in the air from their signal-fire to discourage insects of all sorts.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Enough smoke hung in the air from their signal-fire to discourage insects of all sorts.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

They had fire, excellent shelter, and plenty to eat, and sooner or later someone from White Gryphon or even Khimbata would see or smell the signal-fire, and they could go home.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

They had fire, excellent shelter, and plenty to eat, and sooner or later someone from White Gryphon or even Khimbata would see or smell the signal-fire, and they could go home.

The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Wind variable from north-west to south, and very cloudy, in expectation of more rain; about 10 p.m. a native signal-fire south of this some distance.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

The night of the 22nd was undisturbed, save by the songs and cries of the Afghans outside the walls, but just before day the flames of the signal-fire, shooting upwards from the topmost crag of the Asmai range, were plainly to be seen, followed on the instant by a burst of firing.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

"Nay, Eloisà -- that strange craft, hiding back of the great rock on the coast -- without lights or colors -- why was it anchored there, in sight of the signal-fire, instead of in the port where it had been safer?"

The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull

Slavonic strait with the signal-fire first caught from burning Troy, here threw its radiance far over the deep.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

He had come to a fixed resolution, which was at all hazards to kindle his signal-fire, whatever the chances against him might be.

Cord and Creese James De Mille