How To Use Telegram In A Sentence
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As Jamie Baker reported in Thursday's Telegram, since the rules allowed it, Rideout thinks the whole idea is just tickety-boo.
Rideout defends 5K gift of public cash
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As soon as she was back in England at the Stone House, Dame Beatrice sent a reply-paid telegram to Mrs Biancini:
Spotted Hemlock
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Though each had written to me commendatory letters and telegrams that were far more generous than I could possibly deserve, yet neither ever expressed to me, verbally, any compliment beyond, “Well, so far, you seem to be doing alright.”
Going Home to Glory
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I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?".
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Sinclair received a telegram from a man named George Brasfield, who had lost his job or objecting to the distribution of anti-Sinclair literature.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches from Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
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The telegram from the Red Cross arrived at noon and its yellow envelope sent a chill through her heart.
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This story, which is at the core of Ghost Ships, was pieced together by McNab from fragments of correspondence, telegrams and an extensive examination of steamship logbooks of the period.
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Perhaps the addressee already knows the information in the telegram because he has been watching over you.
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Young Thomas delivers telegrams for a living in the ‘furthest outposts of the British Empire’ while dreaming of New York.
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These telegrams ordered my father to go to Peking at once, but, as the river to Tientsin was frozen, it was out of the question for us to go by that route, and as my father was very old and quite ill at that time, in fact constantly under the doctor's care, the only accessible way, via Chinwangtao, was equally out of the question, as it was a long and most tedious journey and quite beyond his strength.
Two Years in the Forbidden City
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`London decrypt of the overnight telegrams, Your Excellency.
KARA KUSH
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It was started 140 years ago by countries across the world to standardise the telegram and has been at the forefront of every international telecommunication effort since.
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At the post office, Mrs Clarkson, the postmistress, told her: `There's a telegram come for Reeves.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Her extensive understanding of war's horror contrasts with the ridiculous vagueness of her father's telegram announcing Victor's wounding.
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A telegram from Uncle Fred arrived.
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The Queen has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary.
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A telegram has been sent to the Stavka; and an answer received says that a strong detachment of troops is being sent
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Appendix to Chapter IV
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Young people got killed, and their parents at home received the dreaded telegram.
Times, Sunday Times
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These telegrams were delivered by local boys who received a valued six pence.
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But Joe soon discovered that naval officials in Rangoon had no record of his Kunming telegram.
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Threatening or dishonest telegrams, or anonymous notes pushed under the door, set several plots pinwheeling.
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Today, when we think of telegraphs we think of electric telegraphs, we think of wires and Morse code and dots and dashes and telegrams and that sort of thing.
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They'll use letters, postcards, telegrams, cars and whatever other technology is at hand to snare the unwary.
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A telegram of protest to a foreign chancellery gives the satisfaction of a job well done and a night's rest well earned.
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a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night
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In 1955, three years after becoming monarch, she sent 105 birthday telegrams to centenarians.
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The telegram came on a gray April day.
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There were pleasant and flattering obituaries about him, hundreds of letter and telegrams.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?".
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My job was in the telegram section; I was not involved in the handling of the so-called ‘routine telegrams,’ rather my major task was to decode telegrams in code.
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Over the next few weeks, throwing reserve to the winds, I cajoled interviews, sent telegrams, and wrote letters to every Indian historian of note.
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He sent home letters and telegrams that give us a glimpse behind the facade of the official portrait: Loved the ladies.
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Lily May herself had just turned 21 when the telegram arrived saying that her husband was missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The porters told him that several remarkable telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased.
The War of The Worlds
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Civil War commanders used telegrams to transmit messages instantly to each other over distances of a thousand or more miles.
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Lily May herself had just turned 21 when the telegram arrived saying that her husband was missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the Press Telegram prints it right next to the comics, which is where all intelligent people begin perusal of the morning's news (and outside of baseball season often end it) so the eyes early in the morning still affected by sleep can sometimes inadvertantly slide over to that column.
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She received a card from the queen, a telegram from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and a card from Guinness on hearing that she drinks a bottle of the satin nectar every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Down to Santiago, where a telegram waited him from the Emperor of Brazil announcing his election to the Acadèmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, a great honor about which Agassiz remarks: The distinction unhappily is usually a brevet of infirmity, or at least of old age, and in my case it is to a falling house that the diploma is addressed.
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz
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No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or telegrams or cables were private.
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He sent her off a telegram announcing his immediate return to Queenstown.
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After an unauspicious opening act it was good that we had the telegram authorizing our entry form the Ministry of Tourism.
RVABlogs
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In this first of a four-part series, veteran journalist Peter Worthington -- former Moscow Bureau Chief for the Toronto Telegram in the 1960 -- recounts his first journey back to post-Communist Russia, from which he returned last month.
Peter Worthington: The New Russia Is Much Like the Old Russia
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His emotional journey begins as he realises that one day he will deliver the telegram saying that his older brother is dead.
Times, Sunday Times
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Opperman initially worked as a bicycle messenger and telegram boy.
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Bill is a successful writer, who overuses the word ‘wonderful,’ and who tells stories in short phrases, as though he were a telegram.
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There was, of course, no honeymoon, and to crown it all a telegram arrived at the end of the week recalling my new husband to his unit because the posting had been cancelled.
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`London decrypt of the overnight telegrams, Your Excellency.
KARA KUSH
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Her job included sending telegrams about casualties to next of kin.
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At first he wrote nothing but verse -- society verse, ballades, rondeaux, topical verse, and parodies in verse and prose, and then burlesques of books, such as the capital imitation of "The Tale of Two Telegrams" (a "Dolly Dialogue" in the manner of "Anthony Hope"), p. 97, Vol. CVII.,
The History of "Punch"
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These two take it upon themselves to deliver the dreaded yellow telegrams to the newly-widowed women living around them.
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Telegram, telex/teletex services and extension line rentals would remain unchanged, he told a Press coference in Cape
ANC Daily News Briefing
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That year Meyer received a telegram from the Joliot-Curies announcing their discovery of artificial radioactivity.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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The company office was inundated with telegrams of congratulations on the tenth anniversary of its foundation.
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Now these representations had been portrayed insultingly by the Prussians in the famous Ems telegram.
ANTI-ICE
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I received a telegram onboard the tanker from a politician asking me to fly the Canadian flag while the ship was in, quote "Canadian Arctic waters" unquote -- whatever that may mean.
S.S. Manhattan's Northwest Passage VoyageObservations by Canada's Representative
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She called a hansom, drove to a post-office, and sent a telegram:
The Country House
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We planned to marry, but a week before the wedding she received a telegram saying that her brother, an RAF flying ace, had been shot down.
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I rcd a telegram yesterday summoning me to Washington and I leave here today at noon.
Letter from Young John Allen to his Wife,March 15, 1906
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The majority of the translations in this release represent telegrams from the New York KGB Residency to Moscow Center in 1944.
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He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool.
Of Human Bondage
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Call methodically arranged the telegrams in order and read Brookshire the totals: two crew and three passengers killed near Van Horn, little money taken; two crew and two passengers killed near Falfurrias, little money taken; and three crew and four passengers killed near Deming, another military payroll lost.
The Lonesome Dove Series
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It was the end of his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram.
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Traffic around the telex network had grown from an initial 2,000-3,000 telegrams a year to some 9,000 in 1989.
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The telegram came on a gray, chilly April day.
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He said that in his company, employees would microfilm copies of outgoing international telegrams that would then be picked up by a government courier.
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Today, when we think of telegraphs we think of electric telegraphs, we think of wires and Morse code and dots and dashes and telegrams and that sort of thing.
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The British, having broken into the German codes, decoded the telegram.
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I wish to cable an urgent telegram to the President.
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The summons comes in the form of a telegram to the secretary of her work unit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thurston opened his hand to reveal the telegram's torn-off top, which showed that it had originated a few towns back, in Cripple Creek.
Jim Steinmeyer's "The Last Greatest Magician in the World"
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reveals that the latest to be nixed is actually popular children’s author Bill Martin Jr.
Think Progress » Right-wing Texas Education Board accidentally bans popular children’s book author.
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But she got a telegram from Dick Avadon and had to rush to Paris for retakes.
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Transmitted to Washington by the British, the Zimmermann telegram helped buttress President Woodrow Wilson's decision to call for a declaration of war against Germany.
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Lily May herself had just turned 21 when the telegram arrived saying that her husband was missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, when we think of telegraphs we think of electric telegraphs, we think of wires and Morse code and dots and dashes and telegrams and that sort of thing.
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Later, tube systems were enlarged, and new ones opened not only for the transport of telegrams but also for individual and bulk deliveries of letters and parcels.
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When she left the city, he dispatched ridiculously "spoony" telegrams to her in Baltimore, and in his daily letters indulged in a maudlin sentimentality that might have inspired the envy of a sighing
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures.
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Thousands sent telegrams and letters of support, and many included money to help "Ollie" cover the cost of his defense.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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In her mind, the scene of Uncle Volya being led away into the black voronok for telling a joke wrestled for a few minutes with the happy image of the Ivanovo citizens saved from starvation by a telegram.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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One day a telegram arrived from a Hindu warning the Mahatma not to condemn Hindus for what they had done.
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A current series of articles in the Fort Worth Star Telegram calls into question the business practices and ethics of a local evangelist.
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Grant, then at Louisville, relieved the general by telegram and hurried south to Chattanooga, riding horseback over gullied mountain roads.
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People could send telegrams, telephone each other, and transmit information much more quickly than ever before.
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They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and telegrams.
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There were stints as a trainee barman, as a telegram boy, and in a men's clothes shop before he got his break at 17.
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I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?".
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He was a spoilt child and became an utterly self-obsessed adult - he used to lock himself in an upstairs room and send his wife telegrams demanding she deliver him a meal.
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Most of the party's members have called, passed by or sent telegrams asking me to reconsider my decision, and I am grateful to them.
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Classes of school children assembled in front of the embassy and attached telegrams of condolence to the fence that surrounds the compound.
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In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and telegrams from family members overseas.
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It was the end of his last football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram.
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In a telegram sent to the newly-elected Patriarch, the Pope wrote: May the Almighty bless your efforts to maintain communion among the Orthodox Churches and to seek that fullness of communion which is the goal of Catholic-Orthodox collaboration and dialogue.
Ecumenism
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Dad was so flustered (you know how telegrams excite him: they offend all his antiquarian instincts!) -- well, the Bishop said -- _Am sending my favourite curate to call on you magnificent young fellow excellent family very worthy chap will be in Wolverhampton a day or two anxious to have him meet your family_.
Kathleen
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He handily manipulates the criminals by secretly sending a telegram to the police.
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Vi imagined the soundless fall of a telegram through the letter-box.
HUMAN VOICES
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`London decrypt of the overnight telegrams, Your Excellency.
KARA KUSH
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In September Dixon received telegrams informing him that his air attaché was being replaced.
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No one with any sense ever supposed that telephone calls or telegrams or cables were private.
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Even after Chamberlain became too sick to attend Cabinet Meetings, Churchill had the main telegrams sent to his home where Chamberlain continued to read them until he died.
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If there was an urgent vacancy you might receive a telegram.
Times, Sunday Times
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The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram.
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The whispery thin blue aerogrammes have gone the way of the telegram and the telex.
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The cost of Christmas cards, free parcels and telegrams is costing the taxpayer millions of pounds, it was claimed yesterday.
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I'm very proud to have received the telegram.
The Sun
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The reality of his family's poverty finally leaves no option but for Frankie to work, but this time he finds a far better job delivering telegrams for the Post Office.
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Will you hand on this telegram to your friend?
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In an era before long distance telephone, they had to send telegrams to Aberdeen with their questions.
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This morning he received a telegram from a man named George Brasfield, who had lost his job Thursday at a biscuit company in San Francisco for objecting to the distribution of "nefarious, intimidating" anti-Sinclair literature at his office.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
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First, a telegram or telex may be garbled as a result of a failure in operations.
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Copies of the telegrams I sent as ambassador during this period were projected onto a large screen to allow the judge and jury to read them.
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You've mentioned the haiku-like or telegram-like quality of word balloons in comics.
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True to form, he had cussed out the office boy, spoken in fatherly fashion to the trainmaster over the telephone about the lateness of No. 210, remarked to the stenographer that her last letter had looked like the exquisite tracks of a cow's hoof -- and then he had read two telegrams.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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He was asked to send a telegram.
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In two hours several telegrams had reached the angry minister of a southern State reporting that all trace of a somewhat bruised Mahratta had been lost; and by the time the leisurely train halted at Saharunpore the last ripple of the stone Kim had helped to heave was lapping against the steps of a mosque in far-away Roum — where it disturbed a pious man at prayers.
Kim
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Oh, we have a barber shop, a laundry , a store, post and telegram services, a billiard room, a fitness room, a massage room, a Karaokay hall and so on.
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The telegram from the Red Cross arrived at noon and its yellow envelope sent a chill through her heart.
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But if there be something in the case besides live machinery and crossing telegrams, if there be a monarch mind inaccessible to the vulgar crowd of things and only conversing with them through the internuncial nerves, that spirit entity may itself be capable of existing forever in an ideal universe and of communing there face to face with its own kingly lineage and brood.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Nevertheless the Reich Marshal drafted his telegram to Hitler with great care.
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The liberals regarded sending telegrams of condolence as a polite gesture.
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Later another telegram arrived to say my father was missing; he served as a regular with the Royal Marines.
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In the afternoon he had walked from the inn into the town, accompanied by Mr. Cupples, and had there made certain purchases at a chemist's shop, conferred privately for some time with a photographer, sent off a reply-paid telegram, and made an inquiry at the telephone-exchange.
The Woman in Black
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How little these true barbarians know of the solicitous tendresse to which they are subject, or the colonial telegrams that have passed to and from the Gibraltar cable station, attesting to their contentment, or their decline.
The ends of the earth
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They had been writing so regularly - and often sending telegrams - that she knew almost to the day where the herd would be.
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A notice of withdrawal may also be sent by telex o'r telegram, but shall be followed by a signed confirmation copy, postmarked not later than the deadline for submission of tenders.
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Now the Western Union telegram is officially a thing of the past.
Telegram Era Comes to an End | Impact Lab
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They rifled through the whole file but could not find the secret telegram.
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The telegram was delivered early this morning.
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They were the days of letters, telexes, faxes and telegrams.
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The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram.
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The telegram from the Red Cross arrived at noon and its yellow envelope sent a chill through her heart.
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****** Paul was dressing for dinner one evening when a reply-paid telegram was brought to him.
The Fortunate Youth
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A telegram from Stanislaus arrived shortly before curtain up.
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Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram from the major, imploring me to come at once.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The term iron curtain was used in this sense as early as 1920, and Churchill had used it earlier in a telegram to President Harry Truman, May 12, 1945: An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
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There were phone calls and letters and telegrams coming into the prison offering me jobs and asking for leniency for me.
The Other Side of Me
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It was the night porter, however, reading me a telegram missent to the shore and returned to the club.
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty
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They busy themselves buying stamps, receiving drafting paper for telegrams and in sending joyful, affectionate or sorrowful contents of messages home or to their beloved friends.
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The company office was inundated with telegrams of congratulations on the tenth anniversary of its foundation.
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extract information from the telegram
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a congratulatory telegram
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Worse still, when he took Neil Hawke's wicket to bring up his triple century of dismissals at The Oval he received congratulatory telegrams from all counties save his own and on his retirement four years later Yorkshire asked him to contribute £120 to the silver cruet costing £220 they had ordered for him as a leaving gift.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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Allowances are also provided for ‘telemessages’ which replaced the old telegram system.
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We'd send a telegram to order the correspondent bank to advise and pay the money to the remittee .
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Lily May herself had just turned 21 when the telegram arrived saying that her husband was missing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Tyler Telegram humbly apologizes for having called that wide-lipped blatherskite, T. DeWitt Talmadge, "a religious faker.
The Iconoclast
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The next telegram, a longer one, was from Nantes. to chief superintendent maigret from the flying squad nantes stop corpse identified as doctor janin thirty-five years of age address rue des eglises nantes stop left home tuesday 11th january without luggage stop inquiries continuing stop telephone if further details required.
Maigret In Exile
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To top it all off, a telegram delivery boy runs in to deliver messages every so often.
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See, I've worked in journalism for the last seventy-eight years, ever since the usual way a reporter would file a story was by telegram.
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He sent home letters and telegrams that give us a glimpse behind the facade of the official portrait: Loved the ladies.
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David waited tables, sold typewriter ribbons, and even delivered singing telegrams.
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She had to sit down to read it, and from her puzzled expression the telegram could easily have been in Sanskrit or Urdu.
52449_CLARA
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It took her mind off the telegram Dermot must have got from Ireland to say his fiancee had appendicitis.
IN REAL LIFE
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I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?".
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A telegram to Government House in Nairobi could not be decoded because the keys to the safe holding the codebook were unavailable.
The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen
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`London decrypt of the overnight telegrams, Your Excellency.
KARA KUSH
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Or it was like reading a million little telegram messages being beamed out like an SOS to the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wondered also if you would know what I was trying to say in the telegram.
Christianity Today
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The telegram was delivered early this morning.
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The telegrams tell a different story of intimate and co-dependent relationships with unpleasant and repressive regimes in Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat.
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In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and telegrams from family members overseas.
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The victory inspired him to dispatch a gleeful telegram to Roosevelt.
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Will you hand on this telegram to your friend?
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Telegrams from various other parts of the country reported heavy falls of snow during the night and it was feared young lambs and early vegetation had suffered considerably.