But when we come to the case of the nervously broken-down school teacher, or the worn-out telegrapher, that is another matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Untroubled Mind] Reference
Abel, the "telegrapher," a con man who develops a conscience. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
“We had a telegrapher till last month,” Aurel said. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Days] Reference
He was a telegrapher and later station agent for the RR. From Wordnik.com. [Genealogue Challenge #79] Reference
There was no one in the tent but the telegrapher and myself. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
Her telegrapher had told her that her secrecy was pointless. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
A telegrapher could reach a speed of 1 to 3 symbols per minute. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraphy without Electricity « Isegoria] Reference
Thus, the poor telegrapher may develop into an excellent wood-chopper. From Wordnik.com. [THE TRAMP] Reference
"It was from our old friend, the telegrapher, Philip Burton," said Joe. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
This is about a suffragette in 1876 Denver who is a female telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [A Few (More) Good Books « AAUW Dialog] Reference
Prince was the telegrapher, and he was communicating with some female at. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
A telegrapher was setting up a little instrument on a box by the roadside. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
He taught himself to be a telegrapher, and he became the best telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World] Reference
Think back to the telegrapher tapping out a reporter's dispatches from the Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [Recruiting In The PDA Era] Reference
"And when did you determine upon that?" the telegrapher asked, with increasing interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
Really all that is necessary to be a first class copy operator is to be an expert telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Its influence was at once felt in all walks of life; it was an art to be an expert telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Every tower had a telegrapher, looking through the telescope at the previous tower in the chain. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraphy without Electricity « Isegoria] Reference
“And you can even spell!” he added, as if that were the rarest of qualities in a telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Days] Reference
She had been a telephone operator and had learned telegraphy from the telegrapher in the same office. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
One of the best Secesh tricks I have heard of was attempted, a short time since, by a rebel telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
It was the handwriting of a habitual draughtsman, as characteristic in its way as that of a telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The principal objection resides in the increase in muscular work imposed by this arrangement upon the telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference
The telegrapher in charge of the Associated Press wire was a devoted friend and admirer of the New Jersey candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
If the semaphore on that tower was put into a certain position, the telegrapher copied that symbol on his own tower. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraphy without Electricity « Isegoria] Reference
The telegrapher had caught the relay number of the despatch then coming over the wire, and knew that it was from Juarez. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
"I ain't got but a little lunch here," said the red-headed telegrapher, station agent and baggage man rolled into one, regretfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed] Reference
Watkins, agent and telegrapher at Barker's, was sitting in his little office, communicating with the station rooms by the ticket window. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
The telegrapher was busily putting it on the wire. From Wordnik.com. [The White Desert] Reference
The youngest telegrapher in the world is probably Hattie. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
For six years he worked as a telegrapher, and it was not until. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Mind] Reference
That was more than the soldier telegrapher could bear patiently. From Wordnik.com. [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference
General Grant is a copious worker and fighter, but a very meager writer or telegrapher. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863] Reference
When he had finished he shoved the paper over to the telegrapher, who had been waiting. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
She reported the score from time to time in a manner which would have made a telegrapher jealous. From Wordnik.com. [The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix] Reference
Carson spoke shortly to the telegrapher, at which the latter motioned toward the bank building and the private car. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
In 1846, Sarah G. Bagley became the first female telegrapher as she took charge at the newly opened telegraph office in Lowell, Mass. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 13 Recipes Videos] Reference
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