A telephonist at another table commenced to take and write down a message.
The telephonist had scribbled a copy of the note to keep by him in case the wire was mended and the message could be sent through after the messengers started and before they reached the other end.
Then he told the telephonist on duty to get him each battery in turn; and the Brigade was soon a stage nearer in its preparations for supporting the Infantry brigade selected to make the attack.
The doctor toddled off, and I got the telephonist to ring through to the colonel.
I made sure that the telephonist was ringing up each battery every ten minutes to see that the lines were in working order, and then climbed up the railway bank and walked over to inquire if the brigade-major had any news.
The hut contained four wire beds and a five-foot shaft in one corner, where a solitary telephonistcrouched uncomfortably at his task.
This meant that everybody, including officers and down to cook, the telephonist on duty alone being excepted, had to get out and help unload the life-saving material.
We opened up for thirty minutes; our telephonist reported there was such a smoke from the barrage that they could not see the infantry, but the woods were on fire.
Our telephonist 'phoned headquarters for the weightier women to get busy, telling them of our plight, and inside six minutes the ladies of larger girth, the 9.
Late in the afternoon I reported to the telephonist that a big fire was in progress somewhere on our left, as an immense smoke cloud was rising there and coming toward us.
If one showed out of its proper place he shouted to the telephonist and named the delinquent gun, and asked for the lay and fuse-setting to be checked.
They stopped at the place where they had tapped in before and the telephonist busied himself connecting up his instrument.
Must find that break in my wire,' said the gunner, and presently he and the telephonistploughed off along the trench.
The Artillery officer came hurrying and stumbling back along the trench, his telephonist labouring behind him.
Swiftly the Forward Officer began to reel off his corrections of angles and range, and as the telephonist passed them on gun after gun began to pitch its shells on the advancing line.
It started when we was goin' up at daybreak--me an' the other telephonist wi' the Forward Officer.
He scrambled over the debris to the dug-out or shelter-pit behind his corner and found telephonist and telephone intact.
By my side sat a telephonist in communication with the Battery Command Post, some four hundred yards away to the left, beyond the Left Section.
A telephonist was with me who had been through a good deal of the Somme fighting, and had found the Italian Front, in times of lull, a little uneventful.
On the 24th, Jeune, together with an Italian officer, a telephonist and myself made a long day of it.
Close to the entrance a telephonist sat on the ground with an instrument beside him.
Lorrison questioned them hastily and learnt that Pickersdyke was at his observing station, that Scupham and the telephonist were with him, and that there were two more wounded men in the next pit.
Then, just as the telephonist reported "through" again the inevitable happened.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "telephonist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
