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    telegraph


    telegraphed


    telegraphing


    telegraphs


    1. lampposts, telegraph wires, tarmac and cars, this pretty street wouldn't have looked very different a hundred years ago


    2. In terms of the telegraph, these services did not exist between


    3. aghast and swore the telegraph operator to secrecy, and told no


    4. again, that he could not, and that he had taken the steamer to be a telegraph vessel laying cable between Siberia and Alaska


    5. Before acting, telegraph what you think of it


    6. Up and over the telegraph lines


    7. Mail, telegraph, books, magazines, newspapers, and even pamphlets were censored


    8. They destroyed telegraph lines


    9. “And the first thing we want to do is tie into the telegraph and telephone wires, and start telling lies about our location and itinerary


    10. We had a telephone, telegraph and tele-printer set up within the first half-hour, and we had all the housing up in two

    11. Colling asked the Post Office clerk if he could telegraph some funds to an address in Wisconsin, U


    12. but a wild wind of telegraph wires


    13. There were no airplanes, no telephones, no telegraph, and no television


    14. Streets disappeared below the ground, and telegraph poles snapped


    15. I was forced to park my car in town and walk up Telegraph Avenue in a suit and tie in the midst of Mario Savio’s Free Speech Movement’s near-daily riots


    16. , the Telegraph has reported that rather than providing cheaper energy, wind power costs the electric companies £50 per megawatt-hour, compared to £15 for conventional power


    17. Wireless telegraph and radio communications were used by all the belligerent governments and armed services


    18. During my mid-shift break, I would chat with Harv and it was fun for me to watch him play by telegraph


    19. He’d make his move, telegraph it, and wait for the man down the line to send his move back


    20. One night the telegraph in the next office began its string of clicks, but it wasn’t some other telegrapher wanting to play checkers

    21. I’d become accustomed to the clicking sound of the telegraph


    22. The Colonel leaned forward and in the tone one might use to enquire if I took The Times or The Telegraph, asked; “Does it embarrass you to hold that position now you have an erection?”


    23. Kenneth had been at Chiswick House because he earned a few quid as the Victoria League’s link with the Telegraph – as long as his pieces were complimentary


    24. They approached the village and Pedro pulled over as Antonio went past and drove to the telegraph pole that carried the Castle’s phone lines and parked next to it


    25. "Endhaxi! Okay! We'll telegraph funds out of New York this morning," said the lawyer begrudgingly


    26. Flashing across the darkness on the telegraph machine


    27. Morse’s telegraph code would have faded into history by now, but that was how they were communicating


    28. dust, the telegraph, stagecoaches, wanted posters, and a few


    29. They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires


    30. Then, last but not least, I have an interesting essay written by a British reporter from the DAILY TELEGRAPH, titled ‘Nancy Laplante: the true story behind the mystery’

    31. His first real break had come two months ago, when he had received an anonymous letter addressed to him at the editorial room of the DAILY TELEGRAPH


    32. In July 2005, London’s Sunday Telegraph reported that due to the shortage of supplies for the military stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers of the British Army were 105


    33. Editor�s office, The Daily Telegraph


    34. ����������� �Peter O�Neal, reporter at the Daily Telegraph


    35. ����������� �Peter O�Neal, Daily Telegraph


    36. � She was excitedly waiving yesterday�s special edition of the Daily Telegraph as she entered


    37. and England in the Daily Telegraph


    38. And never telegraph your moves


    39. ����������� �My god, listen to this front page article in the Daily Telegraph


    40. I faked a complete calm so as not to telegraph what I was talking about

    41. � His desk at the Daily Telegraph looked decidedly a lot safer now as he glanced furtively at the German soldiers massing for an assault less than 200 yards away


    42. Grabbing with curiosity the morning edition of the Daily Telegraph, she immediately caught on the big title on the front page


    43. As Jozef remembered, the mess hall was erected on wood supports, the girth of telegraph poles and a yard high


    44. ����������� Anger and bitterness filled Peter Stilwell as he read the morning edition of the Daily Telegraph


    45. As Mary Catherine strode toward the telegraph office, she latched


    46. She stopped at the door of the telegraph office and looked down the


    47. Office as she left the telegraph office


    48. was about to take another sip, a runner from the telegraph office came


    49. handwriting, indicating that the telegraph operator clearly suffered from


    50. to use the local telegraph for the sensitive matter we’re dealing with, so













































    1. After the first several movements, for which he had telegraphed to them a posture, they began to react instinctively in self-protection, which saved his voice and breath and allowed him even greater focus in his unrelenting attack


    2. He then telegraphed Grant, “Let the thing be pressed!”


    3. When a pair of telegraphers agreed to play each other, two numbers would be telegraphed for each move


    4. Then it was over, and her face telegraphed equal parts shame


    5. We telegraphed to Weimar to ask about it, and the ever kind owner immediately agreed


    6. Of course I telegraphed back that I should not be here


    7. She had telegraphed her train from Paddington, but that, of course, was no reason why any one should be on the doorstep


    8. Nor did it matter that the coming of age festivities were thrown into hopeless confusion by Tussie's illness, that the guests must all be telegraphed to and put off, that the whole village would be aghast at such a disappointment, that all her plans and preparations had been wasted


    9. We telegraphed to the police


    10. Something of my intense anger telegraphed out of me into the big Trican beneath me, who began to grunt aggressively and stamp its feet

    11. In vain Amy telegraphed the word `talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot


    12. The women telegraphed their approval to one another, and Mr


    13. He telegraphed a roundhouse punch, which I blocked; I teed up one of my own, and as my brother pulled back, I grazed his chin


    14. The rumour has just reached Cayta, and the man in charge of the cable station there has telegraphed the news to his colleague here


    15. On the Monday morning Holmes had telegraphed to the London police, and in the evening we found a reply waiting for us at our hotel


    16. When the special was arranged for, my agent instantly telegraphed to me and warned me how soon I should have everything ready


    17. Sergey Ivanovitch had not telegraphed to his brother to send to meet him, as he did not know when he should be


    18. Melanie telegraphed Colonel Sloan a dozen times and finally a letter arrived, full of and had not returned


    19. Melanie, strangely calm now, telegraphed him money and instructions to come home


    20. In the middle of it Rex just telegraphed to papa: "Julia and I prefer wedding ceremony take place by Protestant rites

    21. At eleven o'clock that night, having secured a bed at one of the hotels and telegraphed his address to his father immediately on his arrival, he walked out into the streets of Sandbourne


    22. His face must have telegraphed it, because Regan and Venus had tensed, too, like teenagers in a monster flick


    23. I must have telegraphed my disbelief, because he scowled again


    24. They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord Godalming's telegraphed request, asking them to show us any civility in their power


    25. Several foreign governments telegraphed to the British Government messages of condolence for the sufferers


    26. “I've known of it a long time; I telegraphed to Moscow to inquire, and heard long ago that the money had not arrived


    27. “That's the best thing you can do,” he responded, as though he had expected to hear it; “except that you can always be telegraphed for from Moscow, if anything should happen here


    28. The cause of his delay was that Alyosha, not knowing his Moscow address, had to apply to Katerina Ivanovna to telegraph to him, and she, not knowing his address either, telegraphed to her sister and aunt, reckoning on Ivan's going to see them as soon as he arrived in Moscow


    29. You don’t believe it? Well, I can assure you it was entirely on my account that Pirogoff telegraphed to Paris, and left Sebastopol at the greatest risk during the siege


    30. Nekhludoff had arranged to stay only a day and night with his aunts, but when he had seen Katusha he agreed to stay over Easter with them and telegraphed to his friend Schonbock, whom he was to have joined in Odessa, that he should come and meet him at his aunts’ instead

    31. His aunts had expected Nekhludoff, had asked him to come and see them in passing, but he had telegraphed that he could not come, as he had to be in Petersburg at an appointed time


    32. The Emperor of Russia telegraphed:


    33. The President of France in his reply telegraphed as follows:


    34. Early one morning he became so ill that the hospital chaplain was sent to administer the Last Sacrament and the little Londoner's parents were telegraphed for


    35. That’s why I telegraphed


    1. It is an overreaction and he is telegraphing anxiety, thinking too quickly to be certain of his next step


    2. Lucy had meant to do exactly as Wemyss said and keep her marriage secret, creeping out of the house quietly, going off with him abroad after the registrar had bound them together, and telegraphing or writing to her aunt from some safe distant place _en route_ like Boulogne; but on saying good-night the evening before the wedding day, to her very great consternation her aunt, whom she was in the act of kissing, suddenly pushed her gently a little away, looked at her a moment, and then holding her by both arms said with conviction, 'It's to-morrow


    3. "Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?" asked Monte Cristo


    4. ‘I didn’t want to show it to you, because Stiva has such a passion for telegraphing: why telegraph when nothing is


    5. However, over the final six months of the uptrend, the new highs were not confirmed by the underlying technicals, telegraphing some key negative divergences


    6. He has been telegraphing for you


    1. Since the lad who usually tapped out the telegraphs was away to lunch, he sidled around the counter and deftly tapped out his message himself


    2. In the meantime, he sent telegraphs to Confederate President Davis to begin the evacuation of Richmond


    3. It telegraphs what you want to


    4. This format clearly telegraphs the link’s ultimate destination, making it easier for your user to decide whether to click or not


    5. I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,


    6. I shall, therefore, not visit either of these telegraphs, but one in the open country where I shall find a good-natured simpleton, who knows no more than the machine he is employed to work


    7. The presence of other buyers just under the level where the institutions were buying telegraphs real interest


    8. “And how will you do that? No telegraphs or telephones


    9. Sound telegraphs through the frame


    10. The governments in our time—all governments, the most despotic and the most liberal—have become what Herzen so aptly called Dzhingis-Khans with telegraphs, that is, organizations of violence, which have nothing at their base but the coarsest arbitrary will, and yet use all those means which science has worked out for the aggregate social peaceful activity of free and equal men, and which they now employ for the enslavement and oppression of men

    11. The railways, telegraphs, photographs, and the perfected method of removing people, without killing them, into eternal solitary confinement, where, hidden from men, they perish and are forgotten, and many other modern inventions, which governments employ more freely than any one else, give them such strength that as soon as the power has fallen into certain hands, and the visible and the secret police, and the administration, and all kinds of prosecutors, and jailers, and executioners are earnestly at work, there is no possibility of overthrowing the government, no matter how senseless or cruel it may be


    12. And so the governor, like the Governor of Túla, arrived on a special train with a battalion of soldiers, with guns and rods, having made use of the telegraph, of telephones, and of the railway, and brought with him a learned doctor, who was to watch the hygienic conditions of the flogging, thus fully personifying Dzhingis Khan with the telegraphs, as predicted by Herzen


    13. The more people shall have to eat, the more there shall be of telegraphs, telephones, books, newspapers, journals, the more means will there be for the dissemination of discordant lies and of hypocrisy, and the more will men be disunited and, therefore, wretched, as is indeed the case at present


    14. Railroads, telegraphs, telephones, photography, the improved method of disposing of criminals by imprisoning them in solitary confinement for the remainder of their lives in cells, where, hidden from human view, they die forgotten, as well as numerous other modern inventions upon which governments have the prior claim, give them such power, that if once the authority fell into certain hands, and the regular and secret police, administrative officials, and all kinds of procureurs, jailers, and executioners labored zealously to support it, there would be no possibility whatsoever of overthrowing the government, however cruel or senseless it might be


    15. The more men are raised above want, the more telegraphs, telephones, books, newspapers, and reviews they possess, the more numerous will be the channels for the diffusion of falsehood and hypocrisy, and the more at variance and miserable will men become,—and it is even so at the present time


    16. We have invented telegraphs, telephones, phonographs, but what improvements have we made in the life of the people? We have catalogued two millions of insects! but have we domesticated a single animal since biblical times, when all our animals had long been domesticated, and still the elk and the deer, and the partridge and the grouse and the wood-hen, are wild?


    17. “If all were forced to till the soil, those vast results would not have been attained which have been attained in our day; there would have been none of those striking successes which have so greatly augmented man’s power over nature, were it not for these astronomical discoveries which are so astounding to the mind of man, and which have added to the security of navigation; there would be no steamers, no railways, none of those wonderful bridges, tunnels, steam-engines and telegraphs, photography, telephones, sewing-machines, phonographs, electricity, telescopes, spectroscopes, microscopes, chloroform, Lister’s bandages, and carbolic acid


    18. Railways, telegraphs, telephones, photographs, and the great perfection of the means of getting rid of men for years, without killing them, by solitary confinement, where, hidden from the world, they perish and are forgotten, and the many other modern inventions employed by government, give such power that when once authority has come into certain hands, the police, open and secret, the administration and prosecutors, jailers and executioners of all kinds, do their work so zealously that there is no chance of overturning the government, however cruel and senseless it may be


    19. And so this governor—precisely as the governor of Toula was doing on that day—with a battalion of soldiers with guns and rods, hastily brought together by means of telegraphs and telephones and railways, proceeded by a special train to the scene of action, with a learned doctor whose duty it was to insure the flogging being of an hygienic character


    20. The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place

    21. "Action Stations" was sounded, the telegraphs to engine-room clanged "Full speed ahead


    22. “There wasn’t telegraphs and telephones and railroads handy in them days, so that I could stop you or catch you, but I didn’t need any telegraphs to tell me she had gone away with handsome Mounseer Hercules, of the curly hair


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    Synonyms for "telegraph"

    telegraph telegraphy cable wire cablegram electronic mail easylink radiogram

    "telegraph" definitions

    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)


    send cables, wires, or telegrams