signal-gun

At Cape Corrientes they encountered the terrible storm which had handled the travelers across the pampas so roughly, but the yacht had borne it bravely, and for the last three days had stood right out to sea, till the welcome signal-gun of the expedition was heard announcing the arrival of the anxiously-looked-for party.

In Search of the Castaways 2003

On Saturday, the 3rd September, the hateful signal-gun awoke us at one A.M. In Arab travel there is nothing more disagreeable than the Sariyah or night-march, and yet the people are inexorable about it.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Danish colors at the fore, and saluting them with our signal-gun in all due form and courtesy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

The very language of the great dramatist came to my recollection, at the moment when I heard the first signal-gun for our being put in motion.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

The sight of so large a fleet formed in two lines, extending four or five miles, each convoyed by a man-of-war, like a troop of soldiers led on in single-file by its officers, was 'beautiful exceedingly;' especially when the rising or setting sun illuminated their white sails, and a signal-gun from the

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

Heard and repeated the sound, the signal-gun of departure!

Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

Punctually at 9 A.M. the signal-gun was fired, when in person, attended by General Howard and all my staff, I rode slowly down Pennsylvania Avenue, the crowds of men, women, and children, densely lining the sidewalks, and almost obstructing the way.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Head-Quarters camp, when the signal-gun announced that the attack on the Begum Kothi was about to take place.

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

As they approached, a big gong began booming, and a white puff of smoke was followed by the thud of a signal-gun.

Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

Then the hand of the Deliverer was extended, and the death-like stillness of a solitude rapidly becoming unbearable was suddenly broken by the firing of a signal-gun.

The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World 1908