telegraph-pole

The list of crimes was long; and one wonders why certain acts were singled out for separate treatment—why, for example, there needed to be a specific section directed against anyone who “maliciously or mischievously” injured “any telegraph-pole or telephone-pole” sec.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

The list of crimes was long; and one wonders why certain acts were singled out for separate treatment—why, for example, there needed to be a specific section directed against anyone who “maliciously or mischievously” injured “any telegraph-pole or telephone-pole” sec.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

The list of crimes was long; and one wonders why certain acts were singled out for separate treatment—why, for example, there needed to be a specific section directed against anyone who “maliciously or mischievously” injured “any telegraph-pole or telephone-pole” sec.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

I am moving too, am becoming involved in the general sequence when one thing follows another and it seems inevitable that the tree should come, then the telegraph-pole, then the break in the hedge.

The Waves 2003

He had his convulsion into a sort of telegraph-pole isolation: which was absolutely necessary for him.

The Captain's Doll 2003

Colonel Poe had provided tools for ripping up the rails and twisting them when hot; but the best and easiest way is the one I have described, of heating the middle of the iron-rails on bonfires made of the cross-ties, and then winding them around a telegraph-pole or the trunk of some convenient sapling.

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

I waited and then followed, my mind concentrated at first on the fifth telegraph-pole the colonel had spoken about.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

On the left were three tiny formalized sketches -- a telegraph-pole, an upright telephone, and a railway engine of the Stephenson period, stocky and high-funnelled -- followed respectively by the words, "Great Yettingford," "Buntisley 3," and "Slape Junction."

Mrs. Miniver 1939

Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1922