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Example sentences for "telegraphic"

Lexicographically close words:
telegrams; telegraph; telegraphed; telegrapher; telegraphers; telegraphically; telegraphing; telegraphist; telegraphists; telegraphs
  1. The telegraphic wires were also put in demand, and in less than forty-eight hours after the occurrence of the mob, the terrific news had spread throughout the country that a "Colored man had attempted to marry a White woman!

  2. Meanwhile the telegraphic wires and newspapers spread the news throughout the length and breadth of the land; the consequence of all which was, I became so notorious that my life was placed in jeopardy wherever I went.

  3. In a moment the news was spread with telegraphic speed through all the coteries in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; it reached the Tuileries and the Elysee-Bourbon; it was the sensation of the day, the matter of all the talk from noon till night.

  4. The piece of paper which performs the service may be a telegraphic order, cheque or bill of exchange.

  5. Have obtained direct telegraphic communication with operators of all five cables to England.

  6. The lines destroyed by the enemy's spies in the early moments of the invasion had long ago been repaired, and up to the present railway and telegraphic communication south and west remained uninterrupted.

  7. There are wild rumours here that the enemy have burned Grimsby, but these are generally discredited, for telegraphic and telephonic communication has been cut off, and at present we are completely isolated.

  8. Time after time telegraphic despatches were handed to him from Germany, and telephonic reports from his various positions around London, but he received them all without comment.

  9. Let a telegraphic despatch be immediately, transmitted,--[by semaphore arms.

  10. The news of our landing at Frejus had reached Paris by a telegraphic despatch.

  11. The telegraphic despatch by which this news was communicated to Paris was as laconic as correct, and contained, in a few words, the complete history of the expedition.

  12. It was perhaps some beginner learning the code, but who in that crew could be working out the telegraphic code?

  13. But as he ate it was at last borne in that these taps came in the irregular but orderly sequence of a telegraphic code.

  14. As to my mesmerico-telegraphic discovery, it may pass for what it is worth.

  15. I can't take it coolly in a telegraphic despatch?

  16. I soon laughed at my Brobdignagian nonsense, and said,--There is a telegraphic despatch passing.

  17. The excitement was redoubled at the departure of the different telegraphic despatches summoning from their village homes the guides spoken of as the most resolute in the district.

  18. No sooner does he set foot in the jungle, than, as if warned by some secret telegraphic agency, all its inmates take to flight.

  19. In the Sydney office a special telegraphic operator is always at work, and cable and telegraphic messages are sent to, and received from, all parts of the world direct.

  20. Until the discovery of the Palmer field, and the opening of Cooktown, Cardwell was the most northern port of call on the Queensland eastern coast, and was the telegraphic centre of news from the Etheridge and Gilbert goldfields.

  21. You are right in believing David to be the best possible confidant," sighed the old lady as she returned the letter and telegraphic message to Grace.

  22. Was the telegraphic communication he bore for her?

  23. The day following the receipt of this letter brought a telegraphic notification from David Nesbit to the effect that he had reached the lumber camp and was about to start on his search for his chum.

  24. In this case the operator at Tyrone had telegraphic orders to hold the east-bound passenger express at that point to meet the west-bound passenger express.

  25. At each end of the Croydon Tunnel a signal-man was stationed, with a telegraphic apparatus, a clock and a telegraph bell in his station.

  26. After some of them had already reached the lower bay, telegraphic instructions were received from the honorable Secretary of War, directing that the sailing of the expedition be delayed, waiting further orders.

  27. The fall of Santiago had been foreseen more than a week, and if there was not a sufficient quantity of wagons present on board the ships, there had been ample time to make telegraphic requisition for them to Washington.

  28. But who, I would ask, put the soul into this telegraphic body?

  29. Apart even from its uses to society, there is something elevating in the idea of Man having tamed that wild force which flashes through the telegraphic wire, and made it the minister of his will.

  30. Before a year elapsed a land line of telegraph was being constructed between this port and Tientsin; in a few months the line was in working order, and the Chinese metropolis is now in telegraphic communication with every capital in Europe.

  31. The town is in telegraphic communication with Massawa, Harrar and Jibuti.

  32. From Ujiji on the east coast of that lake there is telegraphic communication via Tabora with Dar-es-Salaam and via Nyasa and Rhodesia with Cape Town.

  33. The Congo region is furnished with several telegraphic systems, the longest going from the mouth of the river to Lake Tanganyika.

  34. The telegraphic system of Africa is on the whole older than that of the railways, the newer European possessions having in most cases been provided with telegraph lines before railway projects had been set on foot.

  35. At the principal seaports the inland systems are connected with submarine cables which place Africa in telegraphic communication with the rest of the world.

  36. There are complete postal and telegraphic facilities in all parts of the colony save the Saharan Territories, and cable communication with France.

  37. Our adventurous chaplain and a telegraphic operator went with the party.

  38. I suppose we should all like to tap the telegraphic wires anywhere and read our neighbor's messages, if we could only throw round this process the dignity of a Sacred Cause.

  39. He was sent with Captain Metcalf's company far up the Combahee River to cut the telegraphic wires and intercept despatches.

  40. I shall look forward with interest to a telegraphic report about the course of your interview.

  41. After this somewhat painful interview I returned to the embassy and drew up a telegraphic report of what had passed.

  42. But these views have been so fully presented in the Lecture on Special and Miraculous Providence, and in that upon the Telegraphic System of the Universe, that they need not here be repeated.

  43. All the trains from and to Naples were delayed owing to the tracks being covered with cinders and telegraphic communication with all points was badly congested.

  44. The scene of the catastrophe was indicated only by tidings from its outskirts, as all direct news was cut off by the interruption of railway and telegraphic communication.

  45. Railway and tramway travel to and from Naples was much hampered by cinders and ash deposits, and telegraphic communication with the towns farthest in the danger zone was also for a time interrupted.

  46. And scan the scare headlines, telegraphic accounts of the battle, split up and continued into different parts of the paper?

  47. The length of time occupied by the anticipatory pumping was often increased by the difficulty of arranging proper telegraphic communication on the South Devon Railway, and by the absence of it on the Bristol and Exeter Railway.

  48. This inefficiency of the telegraphic apparatus would have been of trifling importance but for the defects of the valve.

  49. Telegraphic News" "One kreutzer," succeeded in dominating the din.

  50. Is Your Majesty aware of the contents of the telegraphic despatches which arrived when I was here and which were delivered as I left?

  51. Telegraphic messages were not very common at Plaistow Hall, and on the arrival of any that had as yet reached that house, something of that awe had been felt with which such missives were always accompanied in their earliest days.

  52. I ought to have been a day sooner, only we don't get our telegraphic messages on a Sunday.

  53. Why, remember what these telegraphic messages are.

  54. Since you have been at church there has come a telegraphic message,' he said.

  55. That softening of his heart which had followed upon the receipt of the telegraphic message departed from him as he dwelt upon the stubborn, stiff-necked, unfeminine obstinacy of the letter.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telegraphic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    radio; signal; telephonic; wireless