To the willows the horses were tied, fires were made, coffee pots put to boiling and a general preparation for supper was going forward, when three Indians appeared in camp bearing a white flag.
I prepared a white flag to go and see them, and sent two or three young men on a hill to see what they were doing.
As Captain Throckmorton, commanding the Warrior, was ascending the river, he noticed a band of Indians near a camp on the bottoms at the mouth of the Bad Axe hoisting a white flag.
I will direct all parties going out to bear a white flag, and not to attempt to go beyond where we have dead or wounded, and not beyond or on ground occupied by your troops.
A sharp engagement ensued, but Lee quickly set up a white flag.
He was told to come in the morning with a white flag.
Three of their number, gaily dressed, advanced with a white flag.
The Indians are preparing to show a white flag," shouted an artillery-man from his station in one of the embrasures below.
This is evidently the suggestion of some European," observed Major Blackwater; "for how should he understand any thing of the nature of a white flag?
She was flying a white flag, with a black cross in the centre, the pennant of the German air fleet.
Another witness saw a similar incident near Malines, but a much larger number of civilians was involved, and a priest was in front with a white flag.
One of them, an officer, held up his handkerchief as a white flag, and this "attracted the attention of a party of about eight Germans.
But to our great surprise, when the army arrived, they came up and formed a line in double file within one-half mile on the south of the city of Far West and despatched three messengers with a white flag to the city.
As soon as day-light appeared, the natives ashore displayed a white flag, which we conceived to be a signal of peace and friendship.
Never have any faith in a Mexican comin' under a white flag.
Again that full-throated cheer came from the Texans and they quickened their pace, but Captain Castenada came down from the mound and a soldier came with him bearing a white flag.
They stood near an hour without making any motion; and then there came near twenty of them, with a man before them carrying a white flag.
I told him we would strive to outdo them in civility, and that we would make good every part of his agreement; in token whereof, I caused a white flag likewise to be spread at the poop of our great ship, which was the signal agreed on.
We hoisted a white flag in the forenoon, but there was no such emblem of a temporary peace displayed by the Russians.
A boat put off with four men, who pulled towards the sloop, got into her, and immediately hoisted a white flag; the first prize on the shore of the Crimea!
It was agonizing to see the wounded men who were lying out under a broiling sun, to behold them waving their caps or hands faintly towards our lines, over which they could see the white flag waving, and not to be able to help them.
On the next day it was discussed whether General Joubert’s proposal should be accepted--that the civilians, women, and children should go out and form a camp five miles off under the white flag.
A corporal carrying a white flag and a bugler well mounted rode with him.
The signal for a pilot again is a white flag with a broad border of black; if our readers will take a mourning envelope with a good deep margin of black to it, they will see the effect exactly.
A white flag, with a St. George cross through the whole flag and the Union Jack in the upper canton, to be used at sea only by ships of the Royal Navy or by yacht clubs to which special license has been given.
But to our great surprise, when the army arrived, they came up and formed a line in double file, in one-half mile on the east of the city of Far West, and despatched three messengers with a white flag to come to the city.
In the morning early the colonel of militia sent a messenger into the camp, with a white flag, to have another interview with Gen.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white flag" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
