Synonyms for black flag

Grammar : Noun

Définition of black flag

As in Jolly Roger : noun pirate flag

Example sentences :

Up goes the black flag, and the skull and crossbones to the fore.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

Folks said, moreover, that he owned a vessel which hoisted a black flag.
Extract from : « The Birthright » by Joseph Hocking

The deck was strewn with mangled corpses, the black flag was shot from the mast.
Extract from : « The Corsair King » by Mr Jkai

“Hurrah for the black flag and the southern seas,” cried one of the party.
Extract from : « The Island Queen » by R.M. Ballantyne

It will blow your ship out of the water, and I'll have a black flag on it and everything!
Extract from : « The Curlytops and Their Pets » by Howard R. Garis

But I'll have a black flag, anyhow, and maybe I'll be a pirate some other time.
Extract from : « The Curlytops and Their Pets » by Howard R. Garis

They had seen its "black flag" and he had sent a bullet through it!
Extract from : « The Pirate Shark » by Elliott Whitney

The black flag from the Alamo and the Missions hung above it.
Extract from : « Remember the Alamo » by Amelia E. Barr

Presently a dingy bit of cloth fluttered just beneath the black flag.
Extract from : « Blackbeard: Buccaneer » by Ralph D. Paine

The black flag was carried to within 900 yards of Colonel Maxwell's left.
Extract from : « Khartoum Campaign, 1898 » by Bennet Burleigh

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