sky-sign

It's a cosmic sky-sign; one day, I'm afraid, the advertising people will wake up to this, and find a way of writing slogans across the solar system. '

Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

In a sense she was the crowning advertisement of her father's career, and her innocent perfection taunted him just as much as the bright sky-sign he knew was flashing the words CHAPMAN PRUNES above the teeming pavements of Times Square.

The Haunted Bookshop 1918

Thames Embankment, were caught by the flaring sky-sign on the other side of the river.

Havoc 1906

One looked up in a sort of despair at the sky, not for a sky-sign but in a sense for a sign, for some sentence of significance and judgment; by the instinct that makes any man in such a scene seek for the only thing that has not been made by men.

What I Saw in America 1905

He will be content merely to glance at the sky-sign as he goes by in a trolley-car or an automobile; he will then settle down to the discussion with his partner about the table-napkins, each speaker indulging in long monologues in turn; a peculiarity of much American conversation.

What I Saw in America 1905

After some warning, he selected a sky-sign of some pill.

The Ball and the Cross 1905

A wooden windmill is Nature and beautiful, a sky-sign atrocious.

Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

Well, I agree that he ought to have been represented by something more satisfactory than a half-length portrait painted on a huge travelling plank of pasteboard, which was pushed about from Arcadia to Scythia (if this was the brigands 'address) and back again, appearing in the limelight, when required, like a whisky sky-sign.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 Various 1898

This -- did it ever occur to you -- is the real public education every country is giving, on every hoarding and sky-sign, to its citizens of every age, at every moment of their lives.

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

Then he constructed a gigantic sky-sign on Summit Rock, the small cluster of boulders on top of the cliff.

The Wings of the Morning Louis Tracy 1895