flag fall
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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We won't see the best of him until it's flat to the boards from flag fall, that's Overturn.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2013
Harllee, commanding one of the color companies, seeing the flag fall, seized it and waving it aloft, called to the men to forward and take the breastworks.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
They let the flag fall over the dead face again, set their shoulders to the bier, and moved forward, bringing down their great staves rhythmically as they walked.
From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Alice let the flag fall at Hamilton's feet, when Beverley came near her smiling that great, glad smile, and with a joyous cry leaped into his outstretched arms.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
We watched the doctor's launch go out to her, saw the flag fall and the belch of smoke as she started shoreward, while the launch came on to us.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
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