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"Semaphore" Quotes from Famous Books

... neighbouring mineral spring. That same year two French brothers of the name of Blanc arrived at Frankfort. They were men of a speculative turn, and a recent and somewhat daring speculation in France, connected with the old semaphore telegraph, had rendered it necessary for them to withdraw for a time from their native land. Their stock-in-trade consisted in a Roulette wheel, a few thousand francs, and an old and skilful croupier of Frascati, who knew a great deal about the properties of cards. The authorities ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... proposes that his apparatus shall give external evidence outside the house by ringing a gong, and by dropping a semaphore arm released by an electromagnet. He also proposes (as has often been suggested) that a water supply shall be automatically ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

... said flatly. "Have a semaphore man posted here this afternoon. I'll be back at that time." He spun on ...

— Mercenary • Dallas McCord Reynolds

Words linked to "Semaphore" : apparatus, signalise, intercommunicate, signalize, sign, signal, communicate, setup