He held it there for only an instant, knowing that the written messagewas recorded instantly by the robot's photographic vision and eidetic memory.
A card slipped from between the pages and he read the short message on it.
Jon had no doubts as to his eventual fate, all he could hope to do was kill time in the hopes that the phone message would bring aid.
Jon kept repeating the message until the searching men began to approach his position.
Jon stuffed the ID tag back into the slot and read over the message on the card as he walked down the stairs to the street.
At the maghrib each day will I think of thee, and whether in the desert or the forest, in the oasis or the city, I will send unto thee a message of love and peace upon the sunset zephyr.
Then, halting a few moments, I gave him a further message of affection to deliver to my enchantress in case my strength should fail.
With Ayesha we could only converse by gesticulation, rendering her thanks for conveying the message unto us.
When thou reachest the city, seek at once the dyer Mohammed el-Arewa, who liveth in the Gazubi quarter, and deliver unto him the message Ayesha beareth thee.
To my well-beloved also I wrote a message of affection, and these I dispatched in charge of six trusty messengers, who had acted as scouts, with orders to speed on the wings of haste back to Kano.
The Lalla is still unable to see thee," he always replied, if I expressed surprise that the promised messagehad not reached me.
My passage was barred until I had explained to the two officers that I was bearer of an urgent message from Istar, and exhibited to them the tablet bearing her seal.
Hastily I scribbled a message of reassurance in Arabic to my well-beloved, and the impish little man hobbled away with it secreted in his gaudy sash, while I continued my way to crave speech with the autocrat.
He looked themessage over gravely, then said: "I am sorry, sir, but I am afraid that I cannot allow this message to go without the written approval of the post commander.
This was the message that the latter thereupon read aloud: "You blithering young idiot!
Now, in the Army signaling work, one branch has to do with heliographing; that is, flashing a message by means of reflected rays of the sun's light.
Despite his tremendous excitement, Sergeant Overton endeavored to steady his right hand enough to enable him to send the message quite clearly.
Certainly, Lieutenant," Noll replied, and handed the messageover to a soldier operator.
When they marched to the Delaware River, one cold Christmas night, a soldier who was sent after them, with a message for Washington, traced them by their footprints on the snow, all reddened with the blood from their poor cut feet.
From the very beginning of the war until the end of his life, by official message and by letter, Washington urged the importance of military instruction.
In his message to Congress in 1796 he said: "The institution of a military academy is recommended by cogent reasons.
In other words, the message is reduced to writing and given to the clerk at the station-house, who translates it into telegraphic signals.
On the 20th of February a message was received from the President, transmitting, in reply to a resolution of the House, copies of the correspondence between the officers of the Mississippi and the Government concerning Kossuth.
You are aware that, after the skirmish with Peschiera's armed hirelings, sent in search of you, I received a polite message from the Austrian government, requesting me to leave its Italian domains.
I obey, madam," he replied; "but first I have a message from the Prince your brother.
He said that he had a message for Isle Rugen, and refused to turn back on any condition.
He could hear the cool wash of the Alla under its walls, and with the assurance there came somehow a memory of a slim lad with clear-cut features who brought him a message from--was it his sister Margaret, or Louis his brother?
The young officer entrusted with the message returned almost immediately, to find his mistress impatiently pacing up and down.
Finally, as a last resort, in the effort to awaken an interest in the message they had to bear to the people, they decided to give a course of public lectures.
However, he finally regained consciousness and looked around, when I asked him if he had any message to leave before he died.
He continued: "I want you to telegraph the operator in Crowheart and find out positively if the message was delivered to the person to whom it was sent.
The telegram read: Message addressed to Miss Essie Tisdale received and delivered.
The Messagegives the history of the matter, with which we are all familiar (or can easily become so by looking up the back numbers of THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, from page 732, and through several numbers following).
Begging Congress to keep its expenditures within the limit of its receipts, President McKinley brought his Message to a close.
At half-past one the President's secretary presented the Message to the Senate, and a few minutes later handed another in to the House of Representatives.
In a former message to Congress I had occasion to consider this question, and reached the conclusion that the conflict in Cuba, dreadful and devastating as were its incidents, did not rise to the fearful dignity of war.
I take it for granted that I owe your presence at our interview which I am resolved shall be, as respects mademoiselle, a final one, to a message from that intriguing young lady--eh?
Mrs. Marston, on the other hand, procrastinated from day to day the painful task of announcing to Mademoiselle de Barras the stern message with which she had been charged by her husband.
The fist on the key that sent out our arithmeticmessage belongs to someone in the neighbourhood of Alpha Centauri.
After a ride round the castle grounds the visitor went off to Paris, and can hardly have been surprised, when he returned to Rouen and found the Admiral had died, to receive a message from the pretty widow to come up and hear the news.
A well-drawn figure of an angel announces hismessage to the Blessed Virgin who is reading, and in the middle of the composition, near the bottom, lies a corpse in a winding-sheet.
A message was at once sent over to Harold, reminding him of the famous Oath, which had been taken, as some say, and according to the suggestions in the Bayeux Tapestry, over the sacred relics of the saints.
A message sent him by De Gancourt, intercepted by the citizens, put the finishing touch to their resentment.
They delivered a message to the effect that justice should be done, and that the murderess must at last put a term to all her crimes.
Here is what I'll say: 'Captain Riggs wishes it understood that, after setting this message adrift, he and Trenholm and Rajah determined to die fighting rather than go to their doom at the pleasure of Thirkle and his men.
We left this message between the covers of an old book, and nailed to the saloon table, with chalk arrows drawn on the floor and about the ship pointing toward it.
But the cable-operator told me the message didn't amount to much, and that he would send duplicates by mail, anyway.
I replied that I would leave at once, and the message was gone before I discovered that there wasn't a steamer for Hong-Kong before the end of the week, five days away.
The clerk passed over the familiar yellow envelope, and my message read: "Proceed to Hong-Kong for orders.
I had him against the ropes, so to speak, and he knew it, for what he did want to find out was whether I knew the telephone message to be fraudulent.
Kennedy had torn open the envelope of a wireless message that had come from somewhere out in the Atlantic and had just been delivered to him at dinner one evening.
Had themessage which we had seen her read at the start been from Du Mond?
Not only that, but the story which she had not trusted either to a message or a messenger was deeply interesting, for, already, it had set agog the fashionable country house colony.
The message did not explain the struggle and the fear.
As he talked, although I could hear only one side of the conversation, I knew that the message was from Chase and that he had found something important about the missing necklace.
And what voice but the deepest and gravest and grandest there is can give worthy utterance to such a message as that, the epitome, the abstract, the very essence of all collective humanity's wisdom at its best!
I said to Ongyatasse; for if, as I supposed, the real message was in the question and answer, I could not see why there should still be a Council called.
But we were ashamed, my friend and I, for we understood now that the secret meaning of our message about the Horned Heads had been that the Tallegewi should fall upon the Lenape wherever they found them.
Go into the forest and wait until his messageis ripe for you.
It was they that had seen the runners of Cofachique come in with the message from Far-Looking.
Will you swear that the message that went with it had nothing to do with the Lenni-Lenape?
But we had carried a war message with peace upon our mouths and we were ashamed before White Quiver.
Patty picked up Mr. Farnsworth's card, and read again the message on it.
It was the great occasion of Patty's début, and in accordance with the social custom, all her friends had sent her flowers as a message of congratulation.
The message in which the President took this ground shook the country like a declaration of war against Great Britain.
Depew dictated a message which was sent round the world and back in fifty minutes.
I knew, before reading it, what message it contained.
