signal rocket

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The discharge of a signal rocket, however, that curved its flight over the island, instantaneously quieted the uproar, and a death-like silence succeeded.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea by Stokes, John Lort

From the bridge a signal rocket soared, hissing.

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Bacon, John Mackenzie

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 Chapman, Allen