Direction indicator

Usage examples of signpost.

Now, there was a very solid signpost standing upon a triangular patch of green before the door of the White Hart, and Colonel Kirke conceived the quite facetious notion of converting this advertisement of hospitality into a gallows - a signpost of temporal welfare into a signpost of eternity.

As he led them to the chosen bridge, he turned to peer forlornly at the signpost beside another.

He examined the remains of the signpost hurriedly, picking out the metal script that had been inlaid in the stone, then scrambled back into his saddle.

Ogier script, found another signpost column, led them onto another bridge.

When they had passed the first signpost, their suspicions did not diminish.

As usual, for these co-written things, he often just had the first verse, which was always enough: it was the direction, it was the signpost and it was the inspiration for the whole song.

She was about to say a time-saving no, but hesitated: a full answer, printed in the local paper, might serve as a signpost to women like herself, potential friends.

Then down again, through more fir-woods, where the timber was being felled, and great tree-trunks lay piled in rows one above another, and past banks that were a dream, with starry blackthorn blossom and primroses growing beneath, to where the cross-roads met and the signpost pointed an arm to Sudbury.

The signpost of hour and date ought to announce an important event, but before we reach object or action an overladen parenthesis blocks the route.

Someone else traveling this lane homeward would see another signpost, but no one else would see it, as no one else would see the one meant for his eyes alone.

But slow as he might go, he finally reached the signpost and turned off into the little footpath.

I found the footpath easily enough, clearly marked with a signpost to Lamladroc Cove.

A municipal signpost incongruously vegetated behind the tail of the left lion, the crossed plaques indicating that this was the corner of Wise Road and Old Creek Road.

Not here the great forests that for all their darkness, even for all their mobility and magic, still stood straight as signposts marking the glory of nature.

To add to his disadvantage, the eyes and pointing fingers of a hundred curious onlookers greeted him at every turn, signposts for his pursuers.