telegraph-wires

It was on a previous visit to Milan, when the telegraph-wires were only just opened to the public by the Austrian authorities, that we had decided one day at dinner that we would go to Verona that night.

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Well, she went on to say that telegraph-wires are not always such good friends to birds, for she had heard that, along the great railroads in the West, large numbers of prairie-chickens are killed at certain seasons of the year by flying against the wires.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

Dretful pain in hez back an 'l'ins, legs feel 's ef they hed telegraph-wires inside

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The telegraph-wires had been cut above Marietta, and learning that heavy masses of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, had been seen from Kenesaw

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

The plan for the future is to net the whole coast -- the lake, Atlantic and Pacific shores -- with these stations and telegraph-wires.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

Peace and order now reigned in Upper Kuram and in the neighbourhood of the Peiwar; but there was a good deal of excitement in the lower part of the valley and in Khost, our line of communication was constantly harassed by raiders, convoys were continually threatened, outposts fired into, and telegraph-wires cut.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

As, however, cutting the telegraph-wires was a favourite amusement of the tribesmen, a heliograph was arranged at suitable stations between

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

He watched a row of small birds sitting on the telegraph-wires just outside the station, and all at once the

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

The moment the gates were closed I telegraphed the result of the day's operations to the Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief, for I knew that the enemy's first thought would be to stop communication with India by cutting the telegraph-wires.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The practice may have gained vogue from an observance of the use of glass knobs as insulators of telegraph-wires.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various