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Example sentences for "telegraph line"

  • No," I said, "we're up here trying to build a telegraph line.

  • It was often said that there never would be a telegraph line, but their answer was always "yes.

  • We reported that there was good country along the coast, and I am glad to say that in the course of a year a telegraph line will be run across the route we travelled.

  • It occurred to me that I might be able to pass the bridge, and thus get over the stream safely, by assuming the role of a telegraph line repairman, carrying some loose wire.

  • A telegraph line can be rebuilt and used with the wire lying on trees, or even fences, in dry weather.

  • Now it could show the world, or as much of the world as chose to take notice, the advantages of having a telegraph line across a creek in time of freshets.

  • There was nothing that was really reliable and worthy of being seriously thought of but a telegraph line.

  • No man, or, at least, very few men, could afford to construct a railroad or telegraph line.

  • While experimenting with a telephone along a telegraph line a curious phenomenon was noticed.

  • Together with William Fothergill Cooke, another Englishman, he developed a telegraph line that, while it did not attain commercial success, was the first working telegraph placed at the service of the public.

  • The Government, realizing the military and administrative value of a telegraph line to California, subsidized the work.

  • In place of laying a submarine cable across the Atlantic Ocean it was proposed to traverse the entire circuit of the earth, except the Atlantic, by a telegraph line.

  • Might not a comparatively short cable be laid to Russian America (for Alaska had not then been sold to the United States), which could connect with a telegraph line to be erected across the continent to New York City?

  • Field became interested in a man who was joining Newfoundland with the mainland by means of a telegraph line.

  • Why not make a telegraph line to span the Atlantic?

  • In the morning a friend met and congratulated him on the action of Congress in granting thirty thousand dollars for his telegraph line--the last thing Congress did that night.

  • What is most needed at present in Sistan is a telegraph line to Nushki.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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