How To Use Telegraph wire In A Sentence
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The tree is also good climbing material for the cat, who seems oblivious to the prickly foliage and spends hours at the top precariously lunging at flies and watching the birds who sit just out of reach on the telegraph wires.
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We have Vernetta Lopez and all the other Eurasians on telly and radio, and we have the de Souzas and the D'Almeidas, who made their fortune harvesting gutta-percha which was used to insulate telegraph wires.
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They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads.
The Railway Children
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The mathematical description of heat flow linked his work on thermodynamics, the cooling of the Earth and even the flow of electrical signals through telegraph wires.
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The rain is sheeting across the horizon like ripped dustbin liners caught on a telegraph wire.
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Trading stores were looted and telegraph wires cut.
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An overspill from the pub sat on the wall opposite with pints and ghetto-blasters and a dozen pairs of runners hung by their laces from the telegraph wires overhead.
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The solar storm in September 1859 turned night into day with telegraph wires bursting into flames.
The Sun
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The use of telegraph wires and train tracks, cattle cars etc to suggest shifts in distance and dimension is particularly skillful.
Bourbaki Panorama - Boing Boing
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He tried it on the Purple Crackles that flew in the fields by the blackberry bushes; the little Gold Finches that swayed on the grasses; and the topknotted Kingbirds on the telegraph wires overhead.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire.
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The transcontinental telegraph wire connecting the east and west coasts of America was completed in 1861.
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And at once I heard something to which I had paid no attention before: that is, the plaintive whining of the telegraph wires.
The Schoolmistress and other stories
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The telegraph wires in the fields held a large number of bee eaters, woodchat shrikes and corn buntings, there were several azure winged magpies and large numbers of swallows and martins.
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There were now 50,000 miles of telegraph wire in the theatre of war, making coverage more extensive and immediate.
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The sender would tap out messages in Morse code, which would be transmitted down the telegraph wire to a human decoder translating them back into ordinary characters.
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It was misty, close, everything intimate, the telegraph wires against thick creamy clouds like matted fleeces, the birds huddling.
LOST CHILDREN
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Miraculously, even the telegraph wires along which Morse code messages once pulsed still dangle in the breeze.
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Every little lane among which I live had its hedgerow yellowhammers, the cocks perched on high on their songposts, on bushes or the telegraph wires.
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The sender would tap out messages in Morse code, which would be transmitted down the telegraph wire to a human decoder translating them back into ordinary characters.
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The solar storm in September 1859 turned night into day with telegraph wires bursting into flames.
The Sun
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You see the swallows lining up on telegraph wires: What?
Times, Sunday Times
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The telegraph wires had broken as well, according to the couple that had stopped by.
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You see the swallows lining up on telegraph wires: What?
Times, Sunday Times
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Telephone and telegraph wires run through the trenches and even railroad tracks are laid so that small engines go whirring through the ditches like "dinky" locomotives in a coal mine.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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Those earliest facsimiles, or "faxes," were transmitted via telegraph wires.
NPR Topics: News
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In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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They walked along the edge of the line, and heard the telegraph wires humming over their heads.
The Railway Children
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It was misty, close, everything intimate, the telegraph wires against thick creamy clouds like matted fleeces, the birds huddling.
LOST CHILDREN
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The last bees of the year are buzzing, pumpkins are ripening orange, and the birds are sitting on telegraph wires, considering following many Hamptons' residents south to Palm Beach for the winter.
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In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them.
TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
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Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire.