signal rocket
Example Sentences
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“Stand by there!” shouted ‘old Hankey Pankey’ to Adams, who had our return signal rocket all ready, slung on to a handspike for a stick.
From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by John B. Greene
Ralph asked him up to the house, but the young inventor said he wanted the quiet of his hotel room to work on his signal rocket idea, which he declared would amount to something yet.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman
Here he seems to have found good use for a further portion of his very complete equipment; for, lighting a signal rocket, he presently brought a four-oared gig to his succour from Portsmouth Harbour.
From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon
Telephone wires were broken immediately, but the "S.O.S." was sent by signal rocket and power buzzer, and our artillery and machine guns replied at once.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
But that only decided me the more to go on; and as the signal rocket was fired, the word was given, and on we went.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
