signal-fires

In night-fighting, then, make much use of signal-fires and drums, and in fighting by day, of flags and banners, as a means of influencing the ears and eyes of your army.

Sun Tzu: The Art of War: Part 3 2007

In night-fighting, then, make much use of signal-fires and drums, and in fighting by day, of flags and banners, as a means of influencing the ears and eyes of your army.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

On the night of the 12th of September there were signal-fires on the slopes of Slievenamon and the Comeragh mountains, and the district between Carrick-on-Suir and Callan was in a state of perturbation.

Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

In night-fighting, then, make much use of signal-fires and drums, and in fighting by day, of flags and banners, as a means of influencing the ears and eyes of your army.

The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

I knew by the signal-fires thou wert off the harbour mouth.

Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Richard Short

The commander of the fort at Astoria had endeavored, by hoisting flags, by great signal-fires, and guns, to warn them of their danger.

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

This must have been a pardonable hyperbole, for the signal-fires ashore which used to herald our approach from afar were not lit.

Pan-Islam

Ship told it unto ship, village sent word to village, perhaps signal-fires flashed it on from headland to headland, that in the north there was a great gathering of men of war, which always in those days meant battle.

The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True

Three - quarters of an hour from the time he had first seen the signal-fires, the mozo was kneeling beside the stricken Desert Rat, who lay unconscious close to one of the fires.

The Long Chance 1918

So I scouted for a likely place to land, far from any sign of the cursed signal-fires.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906