He glanced from side to side, his head darting in one direction, then another, as he waved the makeshift white flag.

Some men fashioned it into a raft and attached a makeshift flag; then they towed the target out beyond the surf for gunnery practice.

He held up the makeshift flag, raised free hand and stepped out onto the road in front of the crushing mill.

To symbolize their victory, they raised a makeshift flag created from a white sheet and a bottle of ink.

And throughout the capital, residents began to emerge back onto the streets, trusting their safety to the fluttering promise of makeshift white flags.

"Be careful," Fitz warned him as he started waving the makeshift flag.

He was hurled back in the saddle and the makeshift white flag toppled.

She broke a third match, looped her ribbon around it, then hoisted her makeshift flag on the topmost tower.

"I ... I thought you'd gone," she said as he put the makeshift flag down on the table.

A limp, makeshift Dutch flag hung there listlessly and his pulse quickened at the sight of it.