"Distress signal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and me had been puttin' in a lot of time together at his house, just chinnin'—there wasn't much else to do but to keep warm. Well, along about five o'clock, we heard a rocket! The wind died away for a minute or so, and we dashed out to the beach to get the lay of that distress signal. Talk about big city fires!" he digressed. "A fire on land ain't what it is on sea. It always seems like as if death has a double power with the fire and the deep and nothing but the sky above to ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose
... told himself grimly, after several futile starts. "I hope mother'll not worry; she may not have noticed Keno, after all, if he went straight to the barn. I remember I left the door open. And now what's the first thing to be done? Oh, I know: make a fire—-and two smoke fires for a distress signal." ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey • Robert Shaler
... thing about it," declared Katherine flatly, "I refuse to be the distress signal this time. Every time we've had to have one in the past my belongings have ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey |
