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"Red flag" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lamartine, stood in February 1848, and, by the power of his eloquence, succeeded in keeping the people quiet. Here he forced the mob, braved the bayonets presented to his breast, and, by his good reasoning, induced them to retain the tri-coloured flag, instead of adopting the red flag, which he ...

— Three Years in Europe - Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met • William Wells Brown

... seen a red flag, though. He put in a worry period that lasted while you could count fifty. Then ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... was in sight, but a traction engine was lumbering heavily upwards, with a man walking before it carrying a red flag. Tom was glad to see it disappear over the dip of the hill. The lane from Bingley woods entered the high road lower down the hill. There was no danger of Bob's nerves being shaken by the sight ...

— Miss Merivale's Mistake • Mrs. Henry Clarke

... stands the patron-saint of Solothurn,—St. Ursus, a hero of the Theban legend,—dressed from head to foot in a suit of magnificently painted armour. His left hand grasps his sword-hilt; his right supports the great red flag with its white cross. Nor is that flag of the year 1522 the least interesting detail of this work. With the crimson reflections of the flag streaking the cold gleams of his glittering armour, his stern dark face and the white plumes tossing to his shoulder, St. Ursus is a figure that may well leave ...

— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

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