Signalled

Examples

• Where Judy Trenor led, all the world would follow; and Lily had the doomed sense of the castaway who has signalled in vain to fleeing sails. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He immediately signalled to the cruiser to send water, medicine, and provisions, and another boat made the perilous trip to the Arrow. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They then signalled the fort, announcing their arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then he groped in the darkness of the carriage for the little bell that signalled orders to the coachman. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• All this time McClernand's 10,000 men were huddled together on the transports in the stream ready to attempt a landing if signalled. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I immediately signalled the Admiral and went aboard his ship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I saw a carriage coming down the street and signalled to the driver. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He had been shot through the face, but he signalled to his chief a message which left no doubt of his determination to hold his post at all hazards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Patriarch insisted on his staying to dinner, and Flora signalled 'Yes! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Charles Morrison in 1753, in the _Scots Magazine_, proposed a telegraph system of insulated wires with a corresponding number of characters to be signalled between two stations. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In this manner the person at the receiving station, by attentively watching the pith-balls, and noticing the letter that appeared at the instant of collapse, could read the messages signalled. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They signalled to him that there was no movement on the other slopes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Typist: Ruth