No one would believe that all is not well here; the many new buildings and flagpoles, the curtains at the windows and the red-painted well house-all give an impression of great prosperity.
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun
He climbed skyscrapers and flagpoles and smokestacks and was a famous steeplejack.
"Rootabaga Stories"
Carl Sandburg
He would stretch out on his stomach across the top of a steeple, and balance there without touching hands or knees, and he'd do all sorts of circus tricks on lightning-rods and weather-vanes and flagpoles-anything for notoriety.
"Careers of Danger and Daring"
Cleveland Moffett