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signal rocket

noun as in Roman candle

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A signal rocket narrowly missed a police helicopter, officers guarding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hotel were assaulted and hundreds of people tried to block streets near U.S.

At the four corners, not far from the house on the hill, where, a short time before, a single individual had stationed himself, as a sentinel in the darkness, this signal rocket was also seen, and the watcher uttered an exclamation under his breath, and started out from underneath the tree that had sheltered him.

If you see or hear anything of a suspicious nature, Andy," cautioned Mr. McKay, "here is a signal rocket.

At that time he escaped but was afterwards pardoned; the signal rocket was to be fired from his storehouse in Cavite.

They were to take up a position near the American barbed wire, and send a signal rocket for a box barrage to cover Xivray and the approaching communication trenches, while heavy artillery bombarded the villages in the rear.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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