telegraph-post

A COLLEGIATE assessor called Miguev stopped at a telegraph-post in the course of his evening walk and heaved a deep sigh.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

The telegraph-post stood close beside it, and its wires hummed ceaselessly in the room somewhere in a corner of the ceiling -- a monotonous, barely audible sound, like a snow-storm.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

To Rona all was new and delightful, and to Ulyth every telegraph-post meant that she was so much nearer home.

For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907

Not a telegraph-post remained standing within ten miles.

The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

My attention was drawn away from my driver's panegyric by the appearance of a very beautiful bird which settled on a telegraph-post beside the road.

Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Southern Railway of Buenos Ayres every single telegraph-post was surmounted with a wooden box, mutely proclaiming itself the most desirable building-site that heart of bird could wish for, and silently offering whatever equivalents to a gravel soil and a southern aspect could suggest themselves to the avian intelligence.

Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

Rosey in her loneliness; for when he was found by a search-party at the foot of a telegraph-post he had used his last match to burn down, he was inarticulate, and seemed to give his name as Harrisson.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

What does he do, but walk down the line into the darkness, climb a telegraph-post, cut a wire, and applied the two ends to his tongue, to _taste_, at the fatal moment, the words, "Died at half past ten."

If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865

"He has at all events made his way up the telegraph-post," said Mr

The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859

His father threw up the window, leaped out, dashed across the four-feet-wide lawn, cleared the winding rivulet, and cut, like a hunted hare, over the smiling landscape towards the telegraph-post, at the foot of which he picked up his unconscious though not much injured son.

The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859