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  • He had taken Danny to a StovingtonKeene soccer match when Danny was only six months old, and Danny had sat motionlessly on his father's lap through the whole game, wrapped in a blanket, a small Stovington pennant clutched in one chubby fist.†   (source)
  • A yellow pennant bearing the outline of a roaring lion and an arm holding a lily blossom waved over the entrance.†   (source)
  • These command groups reminded Kassad of a FORCE:ground mobile staff HQ, only instead of the inevitable forest of comm antennae giving away their position, bright banners and pennants hung limp on pikes.†   (source)
  • Okay, try this one: How many American League pennants did the Yankees win under Casey Stengel?†   (source)
  • Pennants fluttering in an empty doorway.†   (source)
  • His pals had sent him letters and cards, and even a new Yankees pennant signed by Lou Gehrig himself.†   (source)
  • In the center of it was a pennant pole with a stone bench underneath it.†   (source)
  • Inside was a plain room, windowless, the walls hung with sports pennants.†   (source)
  • The slave backed, holding knife in teeth and lashing the barbed shaft to his arm with the pennant.†   (source)
  • He'd had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner.†   (source)
  • That Boston deserved another pennant.†   (source)
  • The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the boys pursuing.†   (source)
  • Flags festoon the theater's heights, the red-and-gold pennant of Gens Taia snapping in the wind beside the black, diamond-emblazoned standard of Blackcliff.†   (source)
  • There were pennants from his ski teams and photos of his family, all lined up on skis on top of a mountain.†   (source)
  • Instead, he would often find himself in the front seat of the car with Pastor Harris as they traveled to Raleigh or Charlotte or Atlanta or Washington, D.C. They spent long hours talking, and though Pastor Harris was a religious man and worked the blessings of Christ into most conversations, it always sounded as natural as someone from Chicago commenting on the endless futility of the Cubs during the pennant race.†   (source)
  • Oh, we talked together, of course, and discussed stuff like the chances of the Red Sox winning the pennant (high hopes in May, sad truth in September) and my marks at school and such, but never anything to do with him, either his work or how he felt about life in general, as if everything aside from baseball or my marks related to his secret duties.†   (source)
  • During all of pennant fever, they went about their work cutting lawns and raking leaves serenading each other: John-ny Damon, how I love him.†   (source)
  • Some reporter asked him to figure out the mathematics of the pennant race.†   (source)
  • He had four hundred Ligaroti pennants printed up in the horse's colors, cerise and white polka dots, and attached to canes for waving.†   (source)
  • We crossed a dirt courtyard, where pieces of clothing hung like pennants from a wire, and entered a dilapidated hut like all the others.†   (source)
  • The best squadron in each wing won a yellow pennant on a pole that was utterly worthless.†   (source)
  • Our beloved and despised Redskins were already in football training camp; the Orioles were out of the pennant race again.†   (source)
  • There were no pennants, the kind one might find in almost any other club's offices.†   (source)
  • Gem Fittich Auto Sales operated under numerous crisscrossing stringers of yellow and white and red plastic pennants faded by a summer of sun.†   (source)
  • Her least favorite barons were those whose loyalties seemed to change directions the way a pennant blew in a shifting wind.†   (source)
  • He pointed to a plum-colored pennant and its pyramid of three gold coins.†   (source)
  • Listen to Mr. Thompson!" said pennants on government cars, "Don't give up!†   (source)
  • They hold a pennant to suggest fire.†   (source)
  • Downtown, near a subway entrance, sat a semipermanent wooden booth decorated with bunting and pennants and flags manned by neatly dressed youth volunteers in paper hats.†   (source)
  • The sun shone brightly and pennants fluttered in the light wind.†   (source)
  • Saddles, rifles, and swords were arranged in constructions that looked like miniature towers, and from the center of each projected a lance with a pennant.†   (source)
  • She remembered the splendor of it: the field of pavilions along the river with a knight's shield hung before each door, the long rows of silken pennants waving in the wind, the gleam of sunlight on bright steel and gilded spurs.†   (source)
  • The Canadian wind would whip us about like pennants.†   (source)
  • They rolled on toward Bryn Shander and cried out their first cheer when the pennant of the principle city came into sight.†   (source)
  • They trailed him wherever he went, like a pennant; he was so used to their presence he did not notice their hunger.†   (source)
  • Mike, I bet Professor three to two that Yankees would win pennant again.†   (source)
  • The Red Sox may take the pennant and until this trip I hadn't missed a game!'†   (source)
  • Dina sat on a bench at the edge of the fountain and watched Natalie moving across the esplanade, the ends of the blue hijab dancing like pennants against her white blouse.†   (source)
  • Finally: "You think the Giants can win the pennant this year?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Those outside appeared running beside the train, then waving handkerchiefs, the young men shouting questions and envious things, the girlsthey were certainly all Irish, wildly pretty-wildly retreating, their hair whipped forward in long bright and dark pennants by the sucking of the train.†   (source)
  • The underdog baseball team won the pennant after 162 hard fought games.
    pennant = a flag given to a champion as an award
  • There is the sudden sound of pennants stirring on their staffs as the wind comes up.†   (source)
  • Both upper stories were flaming now, and pennants of flame shot out the windows.†   (source)
  • Rows of faded festival pennants on ebony staffs line the narrow gravel path.†   (source)
  • The pennants snap above the heads of the straining crowd.†   (source)
  • He was wearing an absurd pair of pajamas covered with small yellow college pennants.†   (source)
  • Their riders bore lances tipped with pennants that snapped like whips in the air.†   (source)
  • He was in his pajamas with the little yellow college pennants.†   (source)
  • Many of the warriors carried spears mounted with pennants that bore curious designs.†   (source)
  • To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd.†   (source)
  • Many of the warriors held long spears mounted with embroidered pennants of every color.†   (source)
  • It's beautiful, pennants flying from turrets and a winding climb to its drawbridge.†   (source)
  • I stood for a moment admiring my handiwork; for there is a great deal of pleasure to be had in a wash all clean, and blowing in the wind, like pennants at a race, or the sails of a ship; and the sound of it is like the hands of the Heavenly Hosts applauding, though heard from far away.†   (source)
  • They were seated in the golden box above the triangular arena—horns blaring, the tiers above and around them jammed with a hubbub of people and waving pennants—when the answer came to the Baron.†   (source)
  • The Houses Minor behind them, sheep-faced and responsive, laughed with just the right tone of appreciation, but the sound carried a note of discord as it collided with the sudden blast of motors that came to them when pages threw open the outer doors, revealing the line of ground cars, their guidon pennants whipping in a breeze.†   (source)
  • From where he stood, panting from exertion, the Consul could hear the snap of pennants far above and a steady, almost subsonic hum that would be coming from either the ship's interior flywheel or its massive gyroscopes.†   (source)
  • Kassad and the other bowmen on Henry's right flank had been staring at the larger French force for most of the morning when pennants waved, the fifteenth-century equivalent of sergeants brayed, and the archers obeyed the King's command and began marching against the enemy.†   (source)
  • The torches danced and sparked to the stiff breeze coming in off the harbor and the sound of the flutists on the break-wall playing for the passing isles was almost drowned out by surf sounds and the crack of pennants snapping in the wind.†   (source)
  • Nasuada was waiting for him by a row of three flagpoles, upon which a half-dozen gaudy pennants hung limp in the cooling air.†   (source)
  • Which explained, of course, the Atlanta Braves coffee cups stacked near the snack counter, the Atlanta Braves pennants on the walls, the Atlanta Braves desk calendar, and the Atlanta Braves lamp near the window.†   (source)
  • All along the broad border hedge, and extending down toward the lagoon and Warming Lodge, were a host of stakes and pennants.†   (source)
  • All the hubbub has died down, the pregame babble and swirl, vendors working the jammed sidewalks waving scorecards and pennants and calling out in ancient singsong, scraggy men hustling buttons and caps, all dispersed now, gone to their roomlets in the beaten streets.†   (source)
  • Banners and pennants fluttered high in the morning breeze, the broken and tattered standards of Jakarun and Dun and a host of lesser duchies and baronies that had fallen to Prusias's forces.†   (source)
  • Outside, a young reporter and her cameraman were waiting on the sidewalk, ready to capture a provocative scene, but all they got were pictures of the workers exiting the district office carrying John-inscribed pennants and bumper stickers, oven mitts and disposable lighters.†   (source)
  • They caught her at the intersection of two identical corridors, both lined with pillars and torches and scarlet pennants bearing the twisting gold flame that was Galbatorix's insignia.†   (source)
  • …and harnesses had long before been worn to soft, dark colors, and could hardly be heard, but the click of metal bits as nervous horses worked their jaws back and forth, the snortings and whinnies, the creak of wagon wheels, the slappings of sabre cases against the horses' flanks, and the high-pitched commands shouted by the officers floated on the sound of the water, and when the column rounded a bend and was hit by a gust of cold wind, the lances and pennants made a whistling noise.†   (source)
  • The men were scattered all through the trees, red pennants dipped down, rifles bristling like black sticks.†   (source)
  • Lin plastered a twenty-foot LIGAROTI sign on the wall behind the "I'm for Ligaroti" section, and scores of Crosby's movie friends, including Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Spencer Tracy and Ray Milland, took up their cerise and white pennants and filed in.†   (source)
  • She entered with a brusque, unrhythmical motion, the train of her dress and the feather of her hat swirling, then flapping against her legs and throat, like pennants signaling nervousness.†   (source)
  • The Demon's seal was not merely etched on Max's helmet, but stamped upon a thousand banners and pennants that fluttered from the city spires.†   (source)
  • The camp was quiet, and everything about it felt slow and sleepy, from the low, drawling tones of the warriors' conversations to the pennants that hung motionless in the thick air.†   (source)
  • He won the parade, of course, hands down, obtaining permanent possession of the red pennant and ending the Sunday parades altogether, since good red pennants were as hard to come by in wartime as good copper wire.†   (source)
  • At Sarah's signal, the troops spread out along the trench, marching behind their lieutenants and company commanders until they reached the fluttering pennants that marked their assignments.†   (source)
  • To his dismay, he saw several hundred horsemen pouring out of the city, their brightly colored pennants snapping in the wind as they assembled in a broad formation before the black maw of the open gateway.†   (source)
  • Each time she landed with the heel of her shoe, Orr giggled louder, infuriating her still further so that she flew up still higher into the air for another shot at his noodle, her wondrously full breasts soaring all over the place like billowing pennants in a strong wind and her buttocks and strong thighs shim-sham-shimmying this way and that way like some horrifying bonanza.†   (source)
  • Out of the corner of his eye, Eragon saw dozens of elves running toward the clearing, their hair streaming behind them like silk pennants.†   (source)
  • To the southwest, a mile beyond the city, was the Varden's camp: long rows of gray woolen tents ringed by stake-lined trenches,a few brightly colored pavilions sporting flags and pennants, and stretched out on the bare ground, hundreds of wounded men.†   (source)
  • The morning sun sat full upon the horizon, and the rays of light that streamed out over the treetops created long, dark shadows that, as one, pointed to the west like purple pennants.†   (source)
  • He spun around, gathering quick impressions: shields and arms and red pennants hung on the walls; narrow windows close under the ceiling; torches mounted in wrought-iron brackets; empty fireplaces; long, dark trestle tables stacked along both sides of the hall; and a dais at the head of theroom, where a robed and bearded man stood before a high-backed chair.†   (source)
  • He was only aware of a whistling and a high windy screaming, as of steel on sand, and it was the sound of the sharp razor prows of the sand ships preening the sea bottoms, their red pennants, blue pennants unfurled.†   (source)
  • As I walked toward the pennant pole, I felt the weight of the crowd's eyes on me.†   (source)
  • Then I settled onto the stone bench under the pennant pole next to my two friends.†   (source)
  • Everything went red for a moment and I leaned against the rough, tarred wood of the pennant pole.†   (source)
  • And again, he caused the pennant to be dipped in signal.†   (source)
  • We sat on the stone bench beneath the pennant pole where I'd been whipped.†   (source)
  • I walked steadily toward the pennant pole amid a sea of susurrus murmurings.†   (source)
  • The wind made her fine hair stream out behind her like a gauzy pennant.†   (source)
  • He stood near the pennant pole, looking piglike in his smugness.†   (source)
  • You can run your favorite jacket up the flagpole and fly it like a pennant.†   (source)
  • A Ewen pennant was tacked over her dresser.†   (source)
  • She looked up at Alec standing over them, his blue scarf fluttering like a pennant in the wind.†   (source)
  • "Now," I said, after we toasted, "Prof, what you think of pennant race?†   (source)
  • The pennant was tantalizingly close, but the pain and dizziness became overwhelming.†   (source)
  • He would take the Agent's patch as a trophy and pluck the pennant at his leisure.†   (source)
  • He says, "The Giants win the pennant and they're going crazy.†   (source)
  • The Giants started their pennant drive thirteen and a half games behind the Dodgers.†   (source)
  • Max got to his feet and craned his neck at the white pennant fluttering above them.†   (source)
  • And the week after that his squadron made history by winning the red pennant two weeks in a row!†   (source)
  • He was no longer very interested in what they contained—his books, his arrowheads, his essays from high school, his pennant collection, his penny jar, his buttons and sea glass and beach stones; they were the things of another time.†   (source)
  • Reinhold Messner The Crystal Horizon n my backpack was a banner from Outside magazine, a small pennant emblazoned with a whimsical lizard that Linda, my wife, had sewn, and some other mementos with which I'd intended to pose for a series of triumphant photos.†   (source)
  • He gave a hand signal to his guard, and a servant above them dipped the Harkonnen orange pennant over the box—once, twice, three times—signal for a fete.†   (source)
  • I gathered up a handful of leaves as I made my way to the roof of a livery overlooking the pennant courtyard near the Archives.†   (source)
  • "You'll never guess what I heard," Simmon said one evening as we sat on our usual bench in the pennant square.†   (source)
  • Understandable, as it was scarcely two hours since I'd been tied to the pennant pole and publicly lashed.†   (source)
  • "What you don't understand," I explained to Simmon one afternoon as we sat under the pennant pole, "is that men fall for Denna all the time.†   (source)
  • Then I was at the pennant pole.†   (source)
  • With a pennant of blue and yellow flame streaming from her maw, Saphira jumped into the courtyard after Eragon.†   (source)
  • It was ten minutes of hard running before Max spied a small white pennant fluttering from a distant peak of jagged rock.†   (source)
  • The fact that the Dodgers, last year's pennant winners, were struggling to hold on to third place didn't matter at all.†   (source)
  • Its proud pennant flew high from the top of a hill in the middle of the dry tundra between the three lakes, just south of the southern tip of the dwarven valley.†   (source)
  • The freak oil paintings clapped hands high on the last standing pennant poles, then plummeted to earth.†   (source)
  • Their trip ended near the back of the Varden, at a large red pavilion flying a pennant embroidered with a black shield and two parallel swords slanting underneath.†   (source)
  • He could see men moving among the caissons, men on horseback moving in the trees; here and there a pennant blew.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't have minded paying Prof if they had been nosed out, but from pennant to cellar in one season—I quit watching them on video.†   (source)
  • He says, "The Giants win the pennant."†   (source)
  • The week after Lieutenant Scheisskopf followed Clevinger's recommendation and let the men elect their own cadet officers, the squadron won the yellow pennant.†   (source)
  • To his left the Giants capture the pennant, beating the Dodgers on a dramatic home run in the ninth inning.†   (source)
  • A pennant of blood trailed the blade as Roran withdrew the weapon and, dropping to one knee, impaled the central soldier through an armpit.†   (source)
  • He says, "The Giants win the pennant."†   (source)
  • He won the parade, of course, hands down, obtaining permanent possession of the red pennant and ending the Sunday parades altogether, since good red pennants were as hard to come by in wartime as good copper wire.†   (source)
  • Brom's sword lay atop his chest and the long white pennant of his beard, with his hands folded over the hilt, just as Eragon had placed them.†   (source)
  • Like a pale, sun-bleached pennant, the dry blade of grass hung from between Arya's left thumb and forefinger.†   (source)
  • He says, "The Giants win the pennant."†   (source)
  • The pennant mounted on the top bore a black shield and two parallel swords slanting underneath, and it whipped and snapped in a warm wind from the east.†   (source)
  • The best squadron on the base won a red pennant on a longer pole that was worth even less, since the pole was heavier and was that much more of a nuisance to lug around all week until some other squadron won it the following Sunday.†   (source)
  • She roared and clawed at the ground with her forefeet, and then Firnen lifted his head toward the sky and loosed a rippling pennant of green fire twice the length of his own body.†   (source)
  • He says, "The Giants win the pennant."†   (source)
  • He had only covered a few feet, however, when a flicker of movement appeared next to each man: a soft, shadowy blur, like the motion of a windblown pennant seen at the edge of his vision.†   (source)
  • "The home run that won the pennant," Cotter says softly, a little reluctantly, because it is such an astounding thing to say and he is awed for the first time, saying it.†   (source)
  • Win the pennant.†   (source)
  • …about the game itself, live-or-die, the third game in a three-game playoff, and you say the names Giants and Dodgers, and you calculate the way the players hate each other openly, and you recall the kind of year this has turned out to be, the pennant race that has brought the city to a strangulated rapture, an end-shudder requiring a German loan-word to put across the mingling of pleasure and dread and suspense, and when you think about the blood loyalty, this is what they're saying in…†   (source)
  • Eugene took all the pennants from the wall and folded them.†   (source)
  • He had not added a single object to the bare necessities of furniture which she had provided; no pictures, no pennants, no cheering human touch.†   (source)
  • The bed that Simon and I slept in bulged up in full dress with pieces of embroidery on the pillow; books (Simon's hero's library) stacked; college pennants nailed in line; the women knitting by the clear, wall-browned summer air of the kitchen window; Georgie among the sunflowers and green washline poles of the yard, stumbling after slow Winnie, who went to smell where sparrows had lighted.†   (source)
  • They lived in a private dwelling on the edge of the campus, in a large bright room decorated with a great number of college pennants, all of which belonged to Bob Sterling.†   (source)
  • Long, gray veils, like pennants, streamed in the wind.†   (source)
  • Your last impression was of two large pennants labeled "Leopolis, N. D.," and "Excuse Our Dust."†   (source)
  • Perhaps our talking of them will arouse the poet who will tell the hidden wonder story of the influence for which the hands were but fluttering pennants of promise.†   (source)
  • After a cursory inspection of the pillow-cases, leather pennants, and Gibson Girls that lined the walls, he left, and continued along Nassau Street with his hands in his pockets.†   (source)
  • Mornings when she came in from the lake with Kennicott she saw placards in every shop-window, and strung on a cord across Main Street, a line of pennants alternately worded "The Boland Chautauqua COMING!" and "A solid week of inspiration and enjoyment!"†   (source)
  • They wore black arm-bands with orange "P's," and carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs in the same color motifs.†   (source)
  • The ChicagoWhite Sox were winning the American League pennant and the New York Giants were leading the National League.†   (source)
  • "Captain," says Alan, "if ye see a pennant, it shall be your part to run away.†   (source)
  • Bert came back clamoring that every motor in town must carry a Wheatsylvania pennant.†   (source)
  • He came galloping at Martin, demanding that he be the first to display a pennant.†   (source)
  • And Sondra, all gayety because of his presence, now jumping up, her bright scarf held aloft in one hand like a pennant, and exclaiming foolishly and gayly: "Cleopatra sailing to meet—to meet—who was it she was sailing to meet, anyhow?"†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is a castle which you encounter upon the cliff's edge; standing there by the roadside, where it has halted to contemplate its sorrows before an evening sky, still rosy, through which a golden moon is climbing; while the fishing-boats, homeward bound, creasing the watered silk of the Channel, hoist its pennant at their mastheads and carry its colours.†   (source)
  • It was a brown boyish room; disordered dresser, worn books, a high-school pennant, photographs of basket-ball teams and baseball teams.†   (source)
  • One instance of such apprehensions: In the same year with this story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant from the Captain to the Theseus; and for this reason: that the latter ship having newly arrived on the station from home where it had taken part in the Great Mutiny, danger was apprehended from the temper of the men; and it was thought that an officer like Nelson was the one,…†   (source)
  • Several towns had sent boosting delegations to the convention, and the village of Groningen had turned out a motor procession of five cars, each with an enormous pennant, "Groningen for White Men and Black Dirt."†   (source)
  • Its distance still kept us from distinguishing the colors of its pennant, which was fluttering like a thin ribbon.†   (source)
  • Her mould was admirable, for a wright of great skill had sent her drafts from England, at the express request of the officer who had caused her to be constructed; her paint dark, warlike, and neat; and the long coach-whip pennant that she wore at once proclaimed her to be the property of the king.†   (source)
  • As he stepped upon the bridge, the trumpets sounded, and over the aplustre rose the vexillum purpureum, or pennant of a commander of a fleet.†   (source)
  • The swelling sail and flying pennant charmed Ernest, while Fritz bent his keen eyes eagerly towards the sandy shore, where the flocks of birds were again settling.†   (source)
  • A small piece of red bunting, such as is used in the ensigns of ships, was fluttering at the lower branch of a small tree, fastened in a way to permit it to blow out, or to droop like a vessel's pennant.†   (source)
  • But I'll swear it's a warship, because there's a long pennant streaming from the peak of its mainmast."†   (source)
  • To my ignorant eyes, it is topped at least a foot too high; and then the pennant is foul; and—and—ay, d—me, if there isn't a topsail gasket adrift; and it wouldn't surprise me at all if there should be a round turn in that hawser, if the kedge were to be let go this instant.†   (source)
  • "I beg your pardon, sir: Jasper Eau-douce was brought up under a real English seaman, one that had sailed under the king's pennant, and may be called a thorough-bred; that is to say, a subject born in the colonies, but none the worse at his trade, I hope, Major Duncan, for that."†   (source)
  • Where's the pennants?   (source)
    pennants = triangular flags
  • with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!   (source)
    pennants = flags
  • [WILLY rushes in with the pennants.†   (source)
  • Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?†   (source)
  • Crowd top-sail, top-gallant and royal studding-sails, Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added, As we take to the open—take to the deepest, freest waters.†   (source)
  • Father: Cease, cease, my foolish babe, What you are saying is sorrowful to me, much 't displeases me; Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft, But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.†   (source)
  • Behold, the sea itself, And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships; See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue, See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port, See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.†   (source)
  • You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs, And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row; You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;) You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time, Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, The faithfulest—hardiest—last.†   (source)
  • …saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor, The sailors at work in the rigging or out astride the spars, The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilothouses, The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels, The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset, The scallop-edged waves in the…†   (source)
  • …guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze, When gorgeous the countless straight stems, the forests at the wharves, thicken with colors, When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak, When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows, When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest, When the facades of the houses are alive with people, when eyes gaze riveted tens of…†   (source)
  • [VI] Proudly the Flood Comes In Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing, Long it holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling, All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, streets of cities—workmen at work, Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun, Freighted with human lives, gaily the outward bound, gaily the inward bound, Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love.†   (source)
  • …Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides, Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance, Thy great protruding head-light fix'd in front, Thy long, pale, floating vapor-pennants, tinged with delicate purple, The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack, Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels, Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following, Through gale…†   (source)
  • "The Pennant," he says.†   (source)
  • Banner and Pennant: Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard! yet farther, wider cleave!†   (source)
  • Many of these phrases and metaphors are in daily use among us, for example, /fan/, /rooter/, /bleachers/, /batting-average/, /double-header/, /pennant-winner/, /gate-money/, /busher/, /minor-leaguer/, /glass-arm/, /to strike out/, /to foul/, /to be shut out/, /to coach/, /to play ball/, /on the bench/, /on to his curves/ and /three strikes and out/.†   (source)
  • I too leave the rest—great as it is, it is nothing—houses, machines are nothing—I see them not, I see but you, O warlike pennant!†   (source)
  • Words no more, for hearken and see, My song is there in the open air, and I must sing, With the banner and pennant a-flapping.†   (source)
  • Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!†   (source)
  • I'll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy, Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete, With the banner and pennant a-flapping.†   (source)
  • Pennant: Come up here, bard, bard, Come up here, soul, soul, Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.†   (source)
  • The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately— below emulous waves press forward, They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.†   (source)
  • O pennant! where you undulate like a snake hissing so curious, Out of reach, an idea only, yet furiously fought for, risking bloody death, loved by me, So loved—O you banner leading the day with stars brought from the night!†   (source)
  • my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword, Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it, Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner, Discarding peace over all the sea and land.†   (source)
  • Banner and Pennant: Speak to the child O bard out of Manhattan, To our children all, or north or south of Manhattan, Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why, For what are we, mere strips of cloth profiting nothing, Only flapping in the wind?†   (source)
  • Child: O my father I like not the houses, They will never to me be any thing, nor do I like money, But to mount up there I would like, O father dear, that banner I like, That pennant I would be and must be.†   (source)
  • Father: Child of mine you fill me with anguish, To be that pennant would be too fearful, Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever, It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing, Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!†   (source)
  • …looking composedly down,) Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand, Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it, Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke, Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water, Where the half-burn'd brig is riding on unknown currents, Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below; Where the dense-starr'd flag…†   (source)
  • Banner: Demons and death then I sing, Put in all, aye all will I, sword-shaped pennant for war, And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children, Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea, And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke, And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines, And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south, And the beach-waves…†   (source)
  • Poet: My limbs, my veins dilate, my theme is clear at last, Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute, I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded, My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,) I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand, Insensate! insensate!†   (source)
  • …am not the sea nor the red sun, I am not the wind with girlish laughter, Not the immense wind which strengthens, not the wind which lashes, Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death, But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings, Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land, Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings, And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant, Aloft there flapping and flapping.†   (source)
  • But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest, A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem of man elate above death, Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates, And all that went down doing their duty, Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid captains young or old, A pennant universal, subtly waving all time, o'er all brave sailors, All seas, all ships.†   (source)
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