The first wisp went straight towards some paddy workers so I only got one flanker, and just as I was in the middle of them, beginning a record bag the horn sounded-the vexation of it!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
His command devolved upon General Birney, who ordered another charge, which was executed with great gallantry, driving the enemy from the field, and defeating the great flanker in his attempts farther to harass our retreating columns.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
The great flanker, or round tower, at the west end of the line was twenty-nine feet high.
"Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast"
Samuel Adams Drake