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Meanings of white rag in English

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Usage of white rag in English
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Everywhere some description of white rag was doing duty for a Royalist banner.
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
2
Then, too, I knew what the white rag was that I had thrown aside.
Montezuma's Daughter
3
He's walkin' right toward the house, wavin' the white rag.
Trailin'!
4
Why, jest heist a bit o' a white rag an' offer to swop pris'ners.
The Scalp Hunters
5
A tattooed arm appeared, feebly waving a bloody white rag.
Mission road
6
If I can arrange the white rag, I know the pupils will do the work.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
7
Anastacio, somewhat ahead of his followers, was approaching with a white rag in his hand.
The Valiant Runaways
8
Near Fommanah nearly every tree had a white rag fastened to it as a charm.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
9
Having no white rag, MacNair waved a spruce bough and stepped boldly out into the clearing.
The Gun-Brand
10
They put up a dirty white rag on a gun barrel and offered to give up.
The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
11
The white rag stock and the white wood fiber are mixed in these, in the required proportions.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
12
I shall certainly mention sheep, the hen, and the white rag in my book on farm pedagogy.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
13
When his father told me about it I began at once to hunt for a white rag.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
14
Bolitho watched as the man was dragged to his feet and a white rag produced from somewhere.
The Darkening Sea
15
An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
16
Then as he went on down he saw something like a white rag whirling down in his wake.
The sleeper awakes
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