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Definition of Flagless
1. having no flag [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagless
Literary usage of Flagless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Its Three Tours of by Alfred Seelye Roe (1911)
"The love of the flag is not an idle sentiment to the imprisoned soldier, for
henceforth he leads a flagless life. Above him floats the flag of the ..."
2. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"... Ran through the mind of this most lowly laid ; From the top billow of victorious
War, Down in the flagless troughs at ebb and flow; A wreck; her past, ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"Who recalls the noontide and the funerals through the market (Blanket-hidden
bodies, flagless, followed by the flies?) And the footsore firing-party, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"The 9th Lancers, with their blue uniforms and white turbans twisted round their
forage caps, their flagless lances, lean but hardy horses, ..."
5. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General, United States Army by Oliver Otis Howard (1907)
"These things being so, it was a little strange that the ominous silence on our
arrival had not been broken and our bold march through the flagless city ..."
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