What on earth is "signalman" on about .... posted on another thread. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Vonnie was a railway kid, daughter of a signalman. From Wordnik.com. [RAILWAY KIDS] Reference
Ashnod cursed again, and shouted at the signalman. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Ashnod cursed again, and shouted at the signalman. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
The signalman who stops the trains, or lets them pass by?. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
The signalman saluted smartly, and carried out his orders. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
At that moment the signalman reported the Exeter's message. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
He was the signalman on watch — he would break the light. From Wordnik.com. [Joint Operations]
"The signalman put the phone down on him," Whitehurst said. From Wordnik.com. [7/7 inquest: bomb alert was ignored, says train driver] Reference
The sun was high when a signalman came along the permanent way. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
` A Navy signalman named C.C. Smith refused to go into his pit. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission] Reference
A young signalman burst into Liakopulos's chambers unannounced. From Wordnik.com. [An Ill Fate Marshalling]
In a minute or two the signalman came in, a grey-haired sailor. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
A signalman began flashing at the aeroplane with an Aldis lamp. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
In the commotion, a signalman failed to alert an oncoming train. From Wordnik.com. [Will Indian Trains Ever Be Safe?] Reference
In a few moments a signalman was flashing to the Ajax: Emergency. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
The signalman was sitting on a chair tilted back against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Railway Children] Reference
Colebridge Junction, owing to some mistake of the signalman, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
He then went to Karazin as signalman and operative in the railway works. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Brecht, the signalman, otherwise out of a job, was taking Hippke's place. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
A signalman entered and laid a slip of paper in front of Captain Burnaby. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
The signalman unfurled a great crimson banner and waved it to the cavalry. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
This signalman could come from the chalk or squad loading on the lead aircraft. From Wordnik.com. [FM 90-4 Appendix E]
A Lion signalman stared in dismay and reported, “Princess Royal blown up, sir.”. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
He found Brecht, the signalman, studying the approaching ships through the telescope. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
In another minute or two, the signalman made the result of his second scrutiny known. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
"Grand Canary," repeated my chum after the signalman, with a puzzled look on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
We all, in short, looked as though we knew better than engine-driver, signalman or guard. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
“Signal for them to approach under agreed truce,” Duke Bretherford told his signalman. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
In the middle of the battle, Willis Partridge, a signalman on the Coast Guard cutter Taney. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009] Reference
"No, sir," replied the signalman; "but she's rising now, sir, an 'I thinks she's closing us.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
“Sir, the signalman did say the transmission was broken and garbled,” Bam-Bam pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [Joint Operations]
S.G.T.; Fred Tuck, O.S.; C. Patton, signalman; and W. Dunetal, stoker, deserve special mention. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
"Yes, we did; but neither me nor the signalman knew how to spell rheumatism, so we called it smallpox.". From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
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