Read full poem →XII.
On which, without pause, up the telegraph line
Swept smoothly the next news from Gaeta : -- Shot.
Dictionary Entry
An apparatus, or a process, for communicating rapidly between distant points, especially by means of established visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical means.
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Common Phrases
company telegraph. telegraphoffice telegraphlines telegraphline telegraphwires telegraphtelegraph dailytelegraph electric
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Poetry examples for “telegraph”
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Read full poem →illness which seemed likely to bring sudden death.
She was summoned from Cambridge by telegraph.
As she rode she wrote the following verses, showing
Read full poem →2428 Telegraph(®) _, AS hberry-3-4624
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Read full poem →2428 Telegraph(B)...... tig dass AS hberry-3-4624
A-1 Meat Market 796 E 14th(Sl).. TR inidad-2-7650
Read full poem →Accacian Theresa 5358JamesAv ....OLympc 3-7356 2254 Telegraph Av(B)
Read full poem →Copyright, 1955, by The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Read full poem →Time-and-space-conquering steam,--
And the light-outspeeding telegraph
Bears nothing on its beam.