telegraph-line

As rumors of a march toward Manassas increased, Mr. and Mrs. Bowen took her to Dartford: there was no telegraph-line to Ridgefield, and but one daily mail, and now a day's delay of news might be a vital loss.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The telegraph-line between Lingayen (Pangasinán) and a place a few miles from Bolinao

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Meantime, General Halleck at St. Louis must have felt that his armies were getting away from him, and began to send dispatches to me at Paducah, to be forwarded by boat, or by a rickety telegraph-line up to Fort Henry, which lay entirely in a hostile country, and was consequently always out of repair.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The usual telegraph-line is efficient with only iron wire.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

The only way back was by the river Ob, along the telegraph-line; any runaway would have been caught.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

Moscow was standing at the telegraph-line and urging haste.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

He understood that Mr McKeith had explored for the laying of a telegraph-line to the Big Bight.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

There were two or three wagons and carts, and a traction automobile, used in the construction of the telegraph-line, but not available in the rainy season, at the time of our trip.

V. Up the River of Tapirs 1914

In cutting the trail for the telegraph-line through the Juruena basin they lost every single one of the hundred and sixty mules with which they had started.

VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 1914

Soon after stârting we came on the telegraph-line, which runs from Cayub&á this was the first time we had seen it.

VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 1914