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Example sentences for "telegrapher"

Lexicographically close words:
telegraft; telegram; telegrams; telegraph; telegraphed; telegraphers; telegraphic; telegraphically; telegraphing; telegraphist
  1. When the telegrapher has reached this word habit stage, he finds the new method far superior, in both speed and sureness, to the letter habit method which he formerly assumed to be the whole art of telegraphy.

  2. Higher units", like the word habits and phrase habits of the telegrapher and typist, are in a broad sense recalled whenever they are used.

  3. The telegrapher acquires skill by improving his methods, rather than by simply speeding up.

  4. Moderate Skill Acquired in the Ordinary Day's Work Merely repeating a performance many times does not give the high degree of skill that we see in the expert telegrapher or typist.

  5. Still, the telegrapher at the depot could have called her and told her I was here when he saw me get off the train.

  6. The telegrapher and baggage clerk were going around the side of the depot towards the tracks.

  7. There was the depot, of course; I often went down to see the night train come in, and afterward sat awhile with the disconsolate telegrapher who was always hoping to be transferred to Omaha or Denver, 'where there was some life.

  8. As the spring came on, I grew more and more lonely, and fell back on the telegrapher and the cigar-maker and his canaries for companionship.

  9. The telegrapher was bowing his farewell to her, but she did not see him; she saw only how her father slowly turned about and entered the office.

  10. Thus, the poor telegrapher may develop into an excellent wood-chopper.

  11. A taciturn martinet of a major hugged a telegrapher to whom he had never spoken a single unofficial word.

  12. Very light-hearted he was, busy, vital, reckless, with an earnest smile that could win the post telegrapher to teach him the code alphabet or persuade his father not to destroy his laboratory after he had singed off his eyebrows.

  13. Then they were off at New Orleans, as the telegrapher announced with a bored air, electrifying the crowd into silence.

  14. It looked bad for the sport's ticket until the telegrapher had carried the nags along to the three-quarter post and then Russell R.

  15. You know whether the telegrapher and the directorcillo ought to be informed; one talks with wires and the other knows Spanish and works only with a pen.

  16. To-day there is little temptation to the telegrapher to go to distant parts of the country on the chance that he may secure a livelihood at the key.

  17. He was far riper in experience and practice of his art than any other telegrapher of his age, and had acquired, moreover, no little knowledge of the practical business of life.

  18. For example, one of the operators in the Cincinnati office was George Ellsworth, who was telegrapher for Morgan, the famous Southern Guerrilla, and was with him when he made his raid into Ohio and was captured near the Pennsylvania line.

  19. Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects.

  20. The telegrapher hammered disgustedly on the key.

  21. I've wired the agent at Denver three times about that stuff," came the announcement of the combined telegrapher and general supervisor of freight at the little station.

  22. The telegrapher was busily putting it on the wire.

  23. The ingenious young telegrapher suggested signaling Sarnia by giving, with the whistle of a locomotive, the dot-and-dash letters of the Morse telegraph code.

  24. Here he had too many boy friends to let him keep on the job as a youthful telegrapher should.

  25. This the telegrapher at Landmann’s Drift also remembers well, as also the telegrapher at the transmitting station at Quagga’s Kraal.

  26. Mr. Emerick, the civil-service Telegrapher who had been at our headquarters, accompanied me on this return to Washington.

  27. The telegrapher at Fredericksburg at that time, was a Mr. Gentry, of Kentucky, a clever gentleman, as all Kentuckians are that I have ever met.

  28. As a telegrapher I handled some correspondence with the War Department at the time which, turned onto a screen, would make some "handwriting on the wall" that would more than surprise the war-reading public.

  29. It was on account of my supposed qualification as a telegrapher that I was subsequently detailed to enter the rebel lines and intercept their telegraphic communication at their headquarters.

  30. Any telegrapher will see that this could easily have been done by the use of the little instrument, that could be concealed between the empty lids of a big watch-case.

  31. There was the depot, of course; I often went down to see the night train come in, and afterward sat awhile with the disconsolate telegrapher who was always hoping to be transferred to Omaha or Denver, “where there was some life.

  32. It is an excessively vain girl who admires herself as actually as she does a portrait, and the telegrapher really saw more beauty in the birchen hand than she had ever observed in the live one.

  33. Back of the shed in which the telegrapher worked by day was a structure in which she slept at night.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telegrapher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.