"Telegraph" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... granted Christmas leave at the last minute, and as it was awkward to telegraph to Northwich, I arrived after a long journey, lasting sixteen hours, ten minutes ahead of the letter I'd sent saying I was coming. My arrival soon spread over the town. A Canadian—this was a rather ...
— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene
... precaution to bond everything through to the North-West, and had the American Consular certificate to the effect that every regulation had been complied with, we were subjected to many vexatious delays and expenses by the Custom House officials. So delayed were we that we had to telegraph to head-quarters at Washington about the matter and soon there came the orders to the over-officious officials to at once allow us to proceed. Two valuable days, however, had been lost by their ...
— By Canoe and Dog-Train • Egerton Ryerson Young
... distinguish one's self; a word also degraded to the meaning of communicating intelligence by means of signals or telegraph. ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... no electric telegraph in those days; at every station Ellinor put her head out, and enquired if the murder trial at Hellingford was ended. Some porters told her one thing, some another, in their hurry; she felt that she could not ...
— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell
... a snap, compressed his lips, gave her one of those quick, positive nods of his Viking head. Then he caught her by the arm. "Now," said he jocosely, "let's go back to camp. You want to do your packing. I've got to go over to the station and telegraph some more." ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips
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