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| 19 | 73 | At View more quotes about night">night, beacon fires, which may be shielded and then unshielded, in codes, may be used. |
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| 19 | 70 | The flash was not unlike that from mirrors used as signal devices in the mountains. |
| 19 | 71 | I had seen such flashes occasionally from the balustrade, presumably the routine signals of guards. |
| 19 | 72 | Smoke signals, too, are apparently sometimes used, but I had not seen them from the balustrade. |
| 19 | 73 | At night, beacon fires, which may be shielded and then unshielded, in codes, may be used. |
| 19 | 74 | The flash of the mirrors, the sight of the smoke signal, the glimpse of a fire, such things, it might be recollected, convey their message at the speed of light, far faster than a tarn can fly, incomparably more swift, even, than the flighted sound of a distant bar. |
| 19 | 75 | There were exclamations of astonishment from the crowd. |
| 19 | 76 | Such a plate might have come from a palace. |