house-flag

But indubitably it was a company, it had even a house-flag, all white with the letters F.C. T.C. artfully tangled up in a complicated monogram.

A Personal Record 1919

To him the wonderful red and gold of the great Northern woods had lost the old allurement and he no longer thrilled when a ship of his fleet, homeward bound, dipped her house-flag far below him.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

His dignity as master of the _Narcissus_, however, bade him refrain from discussing the integrity of his owners with his mates -- particularly with new mates, to whom the house-flag stood for naught but a symbol of monthly revenue.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

She was heeled over to starboard a little and there was a pretty little bone in her teeth; the colors streamed from her mizzen rigging while from her foretruck the house-flag flew.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

And when the house-flag fluttered half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Presently the masters began to dip the house-flag when outward bound, and discovered that, whether The Laird sat at his desk in the mill office or watched from the cliff, they drew an answering salute.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

One morning, the barkentine Hathor, towing out for Delagoa Bay, dipped her house-flag, and the watch at their stations bent their gaze upon the house on the cliff.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Donald watched her until she was abreast and below The Dreamerie and her house-flag dipped in salute to the master watching from the cliff; instantly the young Laird of Tyee saw a woolly puff of smoke break from the terrace below the house and several seconds later the dull boom of the signal gun.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

Laird, they would dip his house-flag -- a burgee, scarlet-edged, with a fir tree embroidered in green on a field of white -- the symbol to the world that here was a McKaye ship.

Kindred of the Dust 1918

She traded among dark islands on a blue reef-scarred sea, with the Red Ensign over the taffrail and at her masthead a house-flag, also red, but with a green border and with a white crescent in it.

The Shadow Line 1917