telegraphist

• “He was seven years older than me, a definite and determined leader in the Communist Party back home, and employed here on its behalf in the House of the Comintern, as a kind of telegraphist whose job it was to send the party line home.”

  Archive 2009-09-01

• “As the novel's protagonist, Lillian, meets up with these characters -- a homosexual actor, a black prostitute, an isolated telegraphist in the Yukon, etc. -- the narrative becomes only more labored and the characters themselves only more an obvious effort to compensate for the fact the Lillian is essentially a cipher.”

  Book Reviewing

• “Each machine carried a crew of four, an officer, a sergeant as second pilot, a wireless telegraphist and an air-gunner.”

  Fictionaut: In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs

• “Throughout the war worked for the Post Office as a telegraphist and counter clerk. 1949 obtained Inter-Diocesan Certificate in Social Work.”

  Archbishop of Canterbury Awards Lambeth Degrees

• “It was only far on in the night that the weary telegraphist got an answer to his calls, but then the messages came clear and strong.”

  The War in the Air

• “Radioukacz (Polish) a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements again Soviet ocupation in the countries behind the former Iron Curtain”

  Reflective Surface - Untranslatable words

• “He retraced his steps to the telegraphist, and wrote out a second telegram to Mycroft:”

  Locked Rooms

• “In the end, he turned abruptly back and walked in the direction of his telegraphist.”

  Locked Rooms

• “As we passed the station window, at which a pale, red-haired telegraphist with upstanding curls and a faded, broad-cheeked face was sitting beside his apparatus, the officer heaved a sigh and said:”

  The Schoolmistress and other stories

• “Later the chief-telegraphist stopped in — the bookworm.”

  The Road Leads On

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