| 单词 | telegraph pole |
| 例句 | At the bottom of the hill it charged across the road, knocking over a telegraph pole and flattening two parked automobiles as it went by. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the road, all I could see were more farm fields; a line of telegraph poles led my eye over them into the far distance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A telegraph pole at the corner held Fire Alarm Box No. 2475. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By a fallen telegraph pole Turner cut off a length of cable and made a noose. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He and his team cut roads, built bridges and telegraph stations, installed telegraph poles, and strung thousands of miles of telegraph lines. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The humbler gallows had rungs on them, like the footholds on telegraph poles, so that the executioners could scramble up and down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z High-roads, and telegraph poles, and the monotony of passing traffic, the slow crawl into London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were all kinds of posters in those days; they covered the telephone and telegraph poles. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There the trail snaked beneath the wooden skeletons of World War II-era telegraph poles. The U.S. Issue:?Explorer: An Eden for Rare Birds in Hawaii 2011-05-13T20:14:41Z Rebels are hanged from telegraph poles and left to rot to break the spirit of their supporters. 'For Greater Glory': a bloody, inspiring religious fight in '20s Mexico 2012-05-31T20:17:11Z A man dressed in eagle feathers is standing on top of a 30-metre telegraph pole banging a small drum, and four other men are climbing up towards him. Magical mystery tour: a road trip through Mexico 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In 1972, he let himself be driven by a friend who was as drunk as he was, who hit a telegraph pole. John Callahan obituary 2010-08-17T17:15:00Z The fence posts beside the road tilt menacingly, while the two cross-shaped telegraph poles suggest the funereal. Books of The Times: Behind That Humble Pitchfork, a Complex Artist 2010-10-03T22:19:00Z Recent clips show Limpy atop a telegraph pole, apparently bedding down for the night. 'He lifts spirits': Limpy the limping turkey becomes Thanksgiving star 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The little owl preys mainly on insects and earthworms and can often be found perched on prominent places, such as telegraph poles and fenceposts as well as mature parkland trees. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z Driving through the devastated areas one year later, I saw an unending landscape of blackened trees, as bare as telegraph poles. Out of Australia's flames 2010-07-31T10:00:00Z Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales. Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood, Dan Richards – review 2013-07-19T07:00:01Z Here, in this visibly anarchic place made of old telegraph poles and wonky planks, was an urban anomaly that tolerated mess and wild behaviour. Sense of adventure: what happened to playgrounds that give children space 2012-07-03T14:40:54Z His property had to be raised up and laid on two connected telegraph poles. Hemsby: How many other communities are at risk of erosion? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z He found no sign of skaters or a wonky telegraph pole often referred to in fen skating circles. 'The joy of fen skating is a great metaphor for life' 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z All along the road, storks stood in nests atop the telegraph poles - a sign in Ukrainian folklore that good families occupied the homes below. In Ukrainian villages, a desperate wait for news of the missing 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z I experienced and witnessed the extraordinary skills of the Ukrainian military pilots in 2018 - flying barely metres above the tree line and telegraph poles. War in Ukraine: Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking oil depot 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Roberts' car left the road on the off-side and crashed into a telegraph pole which snapped off at its base. Snapchat drink driver Meirion Roberts jailed for death crash 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It added that Mark Fenwick's case had been complicated by high voltage power cables falling on broadband equipment and several telegraph poles being made unsafe. Storm Arwen: 'I was left without broadband for seven weeks' 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z For example, imagine the task that telegraph pole installers faced 170 years ago. Perspective | A look at the shovels you need in your arsenal and how to clean them 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z He's tried to reinforce the dune with concrete blocks and old telegraph poles but there's a limit to what he can do on his own. Coastal floods warning in UK as sea levels rise 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Other heights to which Rebecca ascended included a telegraph pole and a tree near the Metropolitan Club in Washington; getting down required firefighters’ help, according to the Billings Weekly Gazette. This raccoon could have been a president’s Thanksgiving meal. It became a White House pet instead. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It says the storm flooded streets and left more than 70 houses, telegraph poles, street lamps and other structures damaged. Powerful typhoon causes minor injuries, damages in S. Korea 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z He interrupts one tale to complain, Charles Kinbote-like, about the ubiquitous sight of telegraph poles in the hotel where he was staying when he first heard the story he is relating. Why Lafcadio Hearn’s Ghost Stories Still Haunt Us 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z In Miami, it toppled railroad cars, blew out windows and snapped telegraph poles. The historic hurricanes that made landfall on Florida’s east coast 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But I panicked and hit the accelerator by mistake and wrapped the car around a telegraph pole. Driving lessons: 'I wrote off my instructor's car' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z He treats us just like telegraph poles now.” Scorned British Tabloids to Harry and Meghan: Show Us Your Baby! 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Two roads, Crescent Street and Taff Street, were uninhabited, awaiting demolition, so they strung up purple bunting and festooned the telegraph poles with purple ribbons. 'It was our catwalk': the children who gave their town a fashion makeover 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Some of us have climbed up into trees, others hide behind benches and telegraph poles. “Deaf Republic” 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z There are booms and creaks from burning trees and telegraph poles. Raging Californian fires kill 25 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Notices stuck to a telegraph pole advertised an upcoming raffle, a talk about Lord Byron, and the campaign to save the school, which is a hundred and eighteen years old. Britain’s Austerity Has Officially Ended—and Yet It’s Still Going 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z It includes offering companies greater flexibility to use Openreach's telegraph poles and underground ducts to lay fibre networks. Openreach to cut price of fast broadband 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z On a recent stag weekend in Hamburg, Kit witnessed a stag – dressed in a hamburger outfit – climbing a telegraph pole. When stag nights go wrong 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z It wants a clearer map of where there is capacity on the telegraph poles and in the tunnels for rivals to do so. BT told to share poles for ultrafast internet 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Trees and telegraph poles collapsed, and there were power outages across Havana. Hurricane Irma: Caribbean islands left with trail of destruction - BBC News 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z It is understood there were no serious injuries as a result of the crash, which happened shortly after 08:30 GMT, and also brought down a telegraph pole. Horsmonden crash lorry hits Grade II listed building - BBC News 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Almost two decades later, during the American civil war, it became commonplace for both sides to climb telegraph poles and tap into communications. Trump’s wiretap paranoia and the reality of modern surveillance 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z As recently as last year, Breitbart published an op-ed article urging that “every tree, every rooftop, every picket fence, every telegraph pole in the South should be festooned with the Confederate battle flag.” Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z "Openreach must ensure there is space on its telegraph poles for extra fibre cables connecting homes to a competitor's network," Ofcom said in a statement. BT told to share poles for ultrafast internet 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z “Every tree, every rooftop, every picket fence, every telegraph pole in the South should be festooned with the Confederate battle flag,” the author, Gerald Warner, wrote. As Trump Rises, So Do Some Hands Waving Confederate Battle Flags 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In the second case, a 58-year-old woman collided with a telegraph pole to avoid hitting a distracted pedestrian in the road, and ended up with multiple pelvic fractures. Pokemon Go 'increases risk of death by distraction' - BBC News 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z No damage was sustained mid-air or as a result of a telegraph pole as reported. The 'flying bum' aircraft crash-landed on its second test flight 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z He died on duty, killed by a falling telegraph pole. China’s Two-Speed Economy 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But BT will be told to allow easier access for rivals to lay their own fibre cables along Openreach's telegraph poles and in its underground cable ducts. Regulator tells BT to open up cable network - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It's just as well then that there's no lasting damage from my collision with a telegraph pole on stage 16 . 'I was always confident in Froomey' 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The Welshman rode through the pain barrier, and at one point a telegraph pole, in the name of helping his team-mate Froome and was up in fourth until the latter stages of week three. Froome completes historic Tour win 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The two planned to meet at a telegraph pole outside the camp. Remembering the Armenian Genocide 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Weaver birds fly around their nest situated on a telegraph pole by a highway near Prieska in South Africa's Northern Cape province July 26, 2000. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The game’s other distinguishing characteristic is its "parkour" feature – with Crane leaping across rooftops, shinning up telegraph poles or edging across gang planks. 'Dying Light' seeks new spin on well-used zombie theme 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z It might have been a tree, a telegraph pole or any other humdrum piece of 'furniture', as riders euphemistically call it, that you wouldn't want to collide with at 150mph. Death and glory: The Dunlop dynasty 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The vehicle was on Leek Road in Endon when it left the road and hit the wall, a tree and a telegraph pole before stopping in a garden, paramedics said. Lorry smashes through front gardens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Lightweight, rot-resistant, straight-grained and easy to work with, chestnut wood was used to build houses, barns, telegraph poles, railroad ties, furniture and even musical instruments. A New Generation of American Chestnut Trees May Redefine America's Forests 2014-03-01T13:30:00Z Last year, part of the treasure trail also required people to travel to physical locations to decode QR codes posted on telegraph poles dotted around the US. Dark net treasure trail reopens 2014-01-09T12:56:21Z Vehicles thrown up against walls, telegraph poles down, roads blocked. Philippines battle to move storm aid 2013-11-10T12:32:13Z The toll is visible in this town - faded roadside memorials mark where drunken drivers ploughed their cars into telegraph poles, groups of dialysis patients mill in the sun outside the town's hospital. A solution for Australia's grog addicts? 2013-10-16T00:04:02Z Plastic bags, tin cans and even telegraph poles have been left scattered over Watkins's fields like dead fish on a beach after the tide has departed. British farmers face hardship as floods wipe out crops in 'worst ever year' 2013-02-23T19:22:36Z When rescuers came – police, the army and American airmen from a nearby base – they could tell where the roads were only by the tops of the telegraph poles. Floods: a disaster waiting to happen 2013-02-02T09:00:26Z If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop. Head computer for hands-free use 2012-11-14T13:19:07Z "If you imagine somebody up, say, a telegraph pole at the very top, needing to rewire something, they don't really want to be fiddling with a laptop," explains Paul Reed, Motorola's mobile computing product manager. A computer you wear on your head 2012-11-14T00:01:32Z You may also get a kick out of the suggestion that we still have telegraph poles. City Room: The Day: Post-No-Bills Laws Can Carry High Cost in Elections 2012-10-11T13:13:21Z Their engineers are climbing and fixing wooden telegraph poles across the network in all kinds of weather. Scotland helps power UK economy 2012-08-14T12:33:26Z Brussels may also want less restricted access for companies to lay their own cables along BT's ducts and telegraph poles. UK rural broadband network on hold as European commissioners dig in heels 2012-07-03T21:44:51Z About 10 years ago, telegraph poles washed up on the shores of Brecqhou and the brothers had some fashioned into a cross and erected at Point Beleme. Brecqhou: how windswept eyesore became Barclays' getaway 2012-06-27T16:59:01Z The American forests have been turned into railroad ties and telegraph poles, and the American Indian has been "exterminated" or taught to plough and to wear a high hat. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z But the man dismounted, and just as the car swung out of sight at a bend of the road, he was clambering up a telegraph pole. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z "I guess I've kicked a hobo off the train for every telegraph pole back on the old Rock Island, but this is the toughest railroading job I've struck yet." The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z She is no more changeable than a telegraph pole. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Once, stretching across the wilderness we saw telegraph poles following the coast-line. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z There are thousands of these; they stretch out like telegraph poles on the prairie to an interminable length, their scarlet pennants flapping and rustling in the sharp east wind like a forest of autumn leaves. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z He had got every fact about the special, every detail of Ralph's encounter with Calcutta Tom, the sensational climb of the telegraph pole, the swing of the lever just in time. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The next day a neighbor came running in to tell me that he was up on a telegraph pole with a little pocket clicker. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Trees again, and telegraph poles won’t do as substitutes this time. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z Fancy awakening from one's crib only to find one's self on the top of a telegraph pole, or clinging for dear life at the end of a dangling rope or rod! Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Later, fording the Kashgan, I got upon the Burujird caravan road, along which are telegraph poles, and on which there was much caravan traffic. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z As nimbly as though his tiger foe was directly at his heels, Ralph sprang at and clasped a telegraph pole. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The crude message Ralph had sent astride the telegraph pole formed the basis for advising headquarters of what was going on. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z The way is as plain as the nose on your face; just follow the ice on the telegraph poles. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z These writers probably imagined that at one time the trees were separated like telegraph poles, and finally came together and made groves by agreement. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Right across this prosperous continent you'll find their graves—men shot and sabred, strung to bridges and telegraph poles. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z It was just forty-five seconds, however, when twenty-five feet from the ground, his slivered and bleeding hands grasped the first cross-bar of the telegraph pole and he lifted himself to it. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z The script, whose characters to modern eyes resemble tepees and telegraph poles, shirt buttons and philodendron leaves, was unlike anything ever seen. Emmett L. Bennett Jr. Dies at 93; Helped Decipher Linear B 2011-12-31T23:03:18Z Moss doesn’t grow on the north side of telegraph poles. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z So finally, dismounting, I unsaddled and staking the two hungry ponies out to a telegraph pole, rolled myself up in my blankets, my saddle for a pillow, and went to sleep. A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life 2011-12-17T03:00:14.127Z See him, quiet and preoccupied, perched on a telegraph pole on the lookout for a dinner! Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z You have noticed, no doubt, how the rails seem to come together as they stretch into the distance, and how the telegraph poles seem to grow shorter and shorter, until they disappear altogether. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z Miles of burning woods were everywhere to be seen; hundreds of haystacks in the meadows, and great piles of logs and railroad ties and telegraph poles were destroyed. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z A telegraph pole standing near the track will flit by like a flash of lightning, so to speak; but if any considerable distance off, it disappears very slow. Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences 2011-11-24T03:00:42.240Z Bent rails slanted into the hole and a broken telegraph pole hung by the tangled wires. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Where there were no trees, the telegraph poles flew past him with bewildering rapidity like the happy hours of his youth. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Such timbers are the masts of ships, telegraph poles, and the best bridge timbers. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Puts me in mind of a swarm o’ bees that’s got settled on a telegraph pole.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And then, just as he was about to lie down again to a rest which would have been more than dangerous, he stumbled upon a telegraph pole. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z With a quick catch of breath I recognized the telegraph poles of the Great Northern Railway and the scattering buildings of Fort Buford—both beyond the Missouri. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Far to the right, across wastes of snowy fields and numb, glittering trees, a line of telegraph poles thrust up darkly against the skyline. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Plantations grow rapidly into fence posts and telegraph poles. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The English tourist would in all probability imagine that these were dilapidated telegraph poles. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And he must venture out into that sinister, invisible space, find a telegraph pole and climb it and cut the wire and talk with Belden! The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z A conversation, begun at the standpipe, progressed to the telegraph pole, and at last came opposite the kitchen. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z General Botha now restricted himself to breaking down the telegraph poles, and destroying the wire for the distance of a thousand yards. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z It will be remembered that the policy of using giraffes instead of telegraph poles was adopted by the War Office in the face of a strong body of adverse opinion. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z Telephones and electric lights have long been adopted, and the telegraph poles do much abound. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The shadows of the telegraph poles, slanting eastward, became longer and longer. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z I began seeing "lace" all around town, in the swags of telegraph pole wires, in the festoons of street lights, and in the cut-ironwork framing the windows where, I bet, those curtains are still twitching. The French connection 2011-08-01T00:31:14Z I picture Al Swearingen in Deadwood when the first telegraph poles went up, saying this would change everything. The Rise of the Knowledge Market 2011-06-27T07:19:59Z Outlined against the starry sky was a low embankment, fringed with the characteristic telegraph poles of the Belgian state railways. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z The monotonous scenery is varied only by a sight of occasional herds of cattle, feeding upon the rich grass, with here and there a mounted herdsman, and the numberless telegraph poles which line the track. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The telegraph poles were blown down, and the wires broken. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Meanwhile an occasional train and not infrequent lines of telegraph poles don't add to the poetry of the scene. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z But when caught red-handed the Germans gave them "short shrift," as the bodies now swinging from telegraph poles on various high-roads in Essex testified. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z For a time nothing, literally, was visible but sky and desert, save for a line of telegraph poles, rising forlornly beside the right-of-way. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Oh, the glory of waking up in the morning and then before you have time to wonder where you are, seeing the telegraph poles flying by! Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z The shadows of the telegraph poles stretched out indefinitely. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z I stood waiting, feeling that I was breathing fast, and as still as one of the telegraph poles along the road. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z "And I have just had three telegraph poles of tea," said Jean, setting her cup down. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Pretty soon he hopped up close to the telegraph pole and leaned his ear against it. Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox 2011-01-29T03:00:21.820Z Railroads threw their bridges over the gorges I had climbed, telegraph poles tamed the erst savage forest ways. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z A lightning-rod will sometimes draw them farther than it would an electric bolt; and a telegraph pole, with its tinkling glasses and ringing wires, gives them great satisfaction. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z We lost control, flew off the road and hit a telegraph pole. Golf Saved My Life 2010-12-17T05:00:00Z Although telegraph poles across the county are festooned with party political posters, those for Sinn Féin's candidate are the most prominent. Irish government faces byelection defeat 2010-11-24T17:46:00Z And by and by he came to a telegraph pole where three little sparrows were swinging back and forth. Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox 2011-01-29T03:00:21.820Z Then I caught sight of the wooden telegraph poles that now lined the streets. Gary Shteyngart: “Kokiri.” 2010-06-07T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, regulator Ofcom set out plans for BT to share physical assets such as its cable ducts and telegraph poles with its competitors. Video game developers get tax relief 2010-03-24T16:01:00Z Ofcom also proposed in its report that BT offers other communications providers access to its underground ducts and overhead telegraph poles. Ofcom in faster broadband effort 2010-03-23T07:43:00Z But with their emancipation in various European countries, as Rabbi Mintz noted in a recent interview, Jews began to create eruvim, first using natural boundaries like rivers and later technological markers like telegraph poles. Jewish Ritual Collides With Nature 2010-03-05T19:31:00Z And then Billy Bunny almost sneezed his head off, for the telegraph pole trembled so that it tickled his ear. Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox 2011-01-29T03:00:21.820Z Fragments of the motorcycle were strewn from the corner to where in a ditch at the foot of a telegraph pole the man was lying, a featureless mass. Manslaughter Through it, north and south, the telegraph poles go straddlin’–in the direction of Kansas City on the right hand, and off past Rogers’s Butte to Albuquerque on the left. Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher And his companion turned her face away, pretending to glance out of the car window at the uninteresting stretch of country and the rapidly disappearing telegraph poles. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas A sea really with telegraph poles and wires for masts and rigging, and all that washing like flotillas of small boats. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Hm! do you see the telegraph poles, which appear between the pines yonder, and show that iron rails run through the forest beneath them? The Children of the World Every time she shut her eyes she saw that heap of blood and steel at the foot of the telegraph pole. Manslaughter Just trust yo' horse to pull through, so that you ain't caught in the flower of youthful innocence, and hung on the nearest telegraph pole. A Man in the Open And on going outside to the telegraph pole against the wall, he clambered up it and attached wires to two of the insulators. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England The telegraph poles which Irma had seen the workmen putting up near the farm, had been erected on account of the queen's intended summer sojourn in the neighborhood. On the Heights A Novel There were two telegraph poles across the road near my post. The Black Watch A Record in Action The bars of the gate were puzzling, and the oak tree somehow refused to turn out a tree at all, and was inclined to bear more resemblance to a lamp-post or a telegraph pole. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story I was half scared, and yet hoping that she might wrap that car around a telegraph pole, before we arrived. A Top-Floor Idyl Keep to the left at Kinderhook after leaving the Kinderhook Hotel, keeping always to the Albany Post Road with the telegraph poles. Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 From Peekskill the rider runs out about half a mile to the north, then turns to the left and follows the telegraph poles to Garrison's. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 In the Far Western States the telegraph poles and fence posts are soon cut off at the ground by the flinty knives the wind carries. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place The fences were riddled with bullets, telegraph poles were down, and the earth was ploughed by solid shot. History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers They were sagging, and two of the telegraph poles were down. Ancestors A Novel The rider should follow the telegraph poles all the way, and keep a sharp lookout for L.A.W. signs, which will be of great assistance wherever they are found. Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 Long, converging lines of telegraph poles; thousands upon thousands of sentinel cottages, factory plants, towering smoke stacks, and here and there a lone, shabby church steeple, sitting out pathetically upon vacant land. The "Genius" No sooner was it down than a dozen men jumped over and lopped off boughs until it looked like a telegraph pole. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest "That telegraph pole will be just the thing to hang him on," suggested Harry to Gid. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys “Are we not delightfully uncomfortable?” shouted Rollo, as they whirled off the road to avoid another car, jumped a ditch, grazed a telegraph pole, and bounced back onto the turnpike again. Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth A man pressed close to the side of the halted buggy, to avoid a huge telegraph pole that came by quivering between two timber wheels. John March, Southerner For example, a forest may be handled so as to produce saw logs, telegraph poles, barrel hoops, firewood, tan bark, or turpentine. The Training of a Forester The similarity in the phrases, telegraph pole and dry heaven, had inspired the common belief that the line of poles then stretching across the country was responsible for the long-existing drought. Across Asia on a Bicycle When there was time, the men twisted the hot rails around trees or telegraph poles, or wreathed them together in fantastic shapes. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House The expectation was that the big car would collide with a telegraph pole beside the road, or go into the ditch on the other side. The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won His message, therefore,—technically known as a "query"—should be: Otto Thomson, receiving teller Commercial Bank, killed at six p.m. by automobile skidding into telegraph pole. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories There was nothing more to be seen of the road, nothing whatever, no ditch at the side of it, no telegraph poles, no small rowan trees. The Son of His Mother Thereafter you could often see Indians with their heads against the telegraph poles, listening to the peculiar sound the wind makes as it runs along the wires and through the insulators. The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. This was a figure in a gray greatcoat and cap, who lounged against a telegraph pole across the street from Martin's destination. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story There were no telegraph poles to climb, and even if there had been, he wanted to get to Betty and the station, not be marooned indefinitely. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune Many a rich man's automobile crashes into a culvert or a telegraph pole and nobody knows of it but the mechanic in the repair shop. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Indeed, it looked as if it had collided with a telegraph pole and lost most of its hood. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters The telegraph poles were gone and wires so inextricably tangled as to be useless. The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. From behind telegraph poles, from kneeling figures, came the spurting flames of revolver shots. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story The speed of the train was now terrific, and the stations, miles apart, brushed by them like telegraph poles. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike Nowadays, follow the roads, the railways, the telegraph poles, hunt down the language in the schools! Letters from my Windmill When a cyclone later visited St. Louis, Mo., it cut off telegraph poles a foot in diameter as if they had been pipe stems. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit This is a very common resident species in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where it nests in trees or telegraph poles, sometimes so numerously in the latter situations as to become a nuisance. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A Boston minister, preaching a funeral sermon, collapsing beside the coffin; a lineman on a telegraph pole, overcome, falling—and splashing! Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 A telegraph pole stood beside the platform some sixty or seventy feet from the depot, the wires slanting down from it into the building's gable end. The Duke Of Chimney Butte “You’ll be lucky, when that time comes, if you don’t get your heels tangled up with a telegraph pole before you reach the river,” concluded Hawk tauntingly. The Mountain Divide Perry took to the solace of a cigarette and stared out at the flying telegraph poles. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Nest in hole in telegraph pole; made of red cow hair, feathers and leaves. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. He has this white notice placarded on every telegraph pole in town.” The Spoilers of the Valley They were running him down street to a telegraph pole when the assistant superintendent appeared in scant attire and stopped them. Whispering Smith Along the railroad track stiffened bodies hanging from the cross-bars of telegraph poles in the gloom of the breaking day told a ghastly story of justice summarily administered to the worst of the offenders. The Mountain Divide Be able to measure the height of a tree, telegraph pole, and church steeple, describing method adopted. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 One or two men wearily pull an immense telegraph pole balanced on a two-wheeled truck. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions The next day blue notices instead of white were tacked to the telegraph poles and the hoardings. The Spoilers of the Valley One looked ten feet long and as big around as a telegraph pole. Tales of Fishes Though five miles away, every house, every telegraph pole, even the thin lines of the railroad rails appeared through the dry clear air as distinct as a miniature painting. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation Huge, golden eagles and enormous ravens made tempting targets on the telegraph poles, and in the morning before we left the cultivated area we saw demoiselle cranes in thousands. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Everything I now look at with an eye to its value for trench construction; thus, telegraph poles, doors, iron girders, and rails are more valuable to us out here than a Rolls Royce. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went For two days, the signs on the telegraph poles remained blue in colour. The Spoilers of the Valley The barracuda looked to me to be fully seven feet long and half as big around as a telegraph pole. Tales of Fishes He did not see the two young detectives, as they were partially hidden by a big telegraph pole. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street We started and plowed on till I thought it time to see the telegraph poles again. Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full And the stars were already beginning to pale when he saw a line of telegraph poles, then two lines of shining metals, then a small settlement of stone and brick houses. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The occupant of the buggy had been thrown out against the telegraph pole with considerable force, knocked senseless, and lay in the gutter, stained with blood and dirt. Hepsey Burke He proceeded to the tall telegraph pole and swarmed quickly up it. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air A sun-scorched, wooden signal-tower rose in front of it; behind it a line of telegraph poles stretched away into perspective across the moors. The Maids of Paradise On leaving Ottawa, the captain followed the telegraph poles along the Illinois River, passing a large number of very fine corn-fields, and overtaking an emigrant train on its journey from Ohio to Western Nebraska. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier As the train thunders by, the Western meadow-lark mounts a telegraph pole and pours out such a peal of melody that it is distinctly heard above the uproar of the iron wheels. A Bird-Lover in the West Well, you see, something frightened your horse, and your buggy was overturned, and you were thrown 256 against a telegraph pole and injured more or less. Hepsey Burke They have just hung a man over near the railroad to the telegraph pole for cutting the finger off of a dead woman in order to get a ring. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin “Rather soft, eh, for the poor baseball slaves,” grinned Jim, as he stretched out his long legs luxuriously and gazed out of the window at the flying telegraph poles. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour Only, looking up, between two black chimneys and a telegraph pole, I saw vast and far and faint, as the first men saw it, the silver pattern of the Plough. What I Saw in America You must have heard how they literally eat up houses and the furnishings within, how they consume telegraph poles, railroad ties, anything wooden within reach. The Raid on the Termites There are several purposes to which logs are put without being sawed into lumber, such as for telegraph poles and for piling for the support of great buildings and for wharves. Conservation Reader It received a quick oiling, while George climbed up a telegraph pole and severed a wire in the manner heretofore described. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War It should have at its ends some plainly marked objects, such as telegraph poles, trees, corners of buildings, etc., and from its ends, and intermediate points, a good view of the area should be possible. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition On Shelter Island they build on the chimneys of houses, and a pair had a nest on the cross-bar of a telegraph pole. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 It is considered one of the timbers likely to supply the place of black locust for insulator pins on telegraph poles. Seasoning of Wood "Ph, look!" the rather silent Sarah kindled into animation at the sight of a gay-colored poster tacked to a telegraph pole along the road. Rainbow Hill They had reached the place where the telegraph pole obstructed the track. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War “I have very long sight; and as the man stood there on top of the ‘bubble,’ with the sun shining full upon him, he looked as tall as a telegraph pole. The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Look at young McCrea out there where there are no telegraph poles to help you judge the distance. Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Wood like the best of hard pine both in appearance, quality, and uses, and owing to its great durability somewhat preferred in shipbuilding, for telegraph poles, and railway ties. Seasoning of Wood A telegraph pole that had stood black athwart the glow began to move backward. Frank of Freedom Hill The hand-car was lifted to the track, beyond the telegraph pole, and the journey was resumed. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Of these it stores away large numbers in the thick bark of pines, in partly rotten limbs of oak trees, telegraph poles, and fence posts. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 Hurrying to the nearest telegraph pole, he swarmed up to the cross-tree, and quickly filed through the wire on one side of the glass insulator. The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Used for railway ties, fence posts, sills, ship timbers, telegraph poles, flagstaffs. Seasoning of Wood Personally, I should prefer all those dinky white telegraph poles stretched with ribbon and bunched up with flowers to make an aisle for the happy couple to walk through. Patty's Social Season He leaned down and drew from a side pocket of his discarded coat a roll of strong cord which had been used when he climbed the telegraph poles. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War A long slender pole like a telegraph pole held the gate in place. Blue Ridge Country Not being able to do that, I told him of the bullets in the telegraph pole, and took him over to where the mail car had stood. The Great K. & A. Robbery Used chiefly for railway ties, telegraph poles, and fence posts, but well suited for a great variety of uses. Seasoning of Wood When the great neck was again erect, the man slid carefully down it to his place, much as one might slip down a telegraph pole. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner It was raised up on pillars as long as telegraph poles, and the ground floor was divided into various apartments. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia "This cross in ink marks where the line has got to from the northern end, and this one," pointing to another, "from the south, and they have already got telegraph poles a good bit further." The Arbiter A Novel I think if I were armed with a telegraph pole and Bill with only a tooth-pick as a weapon of defense he could thrash me with ease. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Used in cooperage, for cabinetwork, agricultural implements, railway ties, telegraph poles, fence posts, sills, boxes, crates, coffins, furniture, fixtures, foundation for veneer, and locally in heavy construction. Seasoning of Wood The usual story says that Fowler was hanged to a telegraph pole in town. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado "Masterman jumped out of the conveyance, which also contained several ladies, and, overtaking the animals, succeeded in turning them into a telegraph pole." Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 As we passed each telegraph pole he stopped and said grimly, "Ah, I thought so"; and drew his revolver. Once a Week It is forty years since the telegraph abandoned this abandoned highway, and the tramps left with the telegraph poles. The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five White cedar telegraph poles are said to remain floating in the water of the Great Lakes sometimes for several years before they are set in lines and to last better than freshly cut poles. Seasoning of Wood A series of telegraph poles had been cut down outside Staines, Slough, and at various points along the Portsmouth road. Men of Affairs The second part of it—in which the telegraph pole is turned into a couple of rabbits—is rather in the nature of an anti-climax. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 Where telegraph poles are barked, it is often seen that borers have attacked the wood under blight cankers, and have not touched any other part of the tree. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912 His automobile ran into a telegraph pole when he tried to turn out so's he wouldn't hit a baby playing in the street, and he fell out and broke his leg. Heart of Gold Telephone and telegraph poles lay prone for a quarter of a mile at a stretch. The Fighting Shepherdess "What was once a small car before it met what was once a large telegraph pole," I said thoughtlessly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 At the corner they found Janet, and a big burly policeman who was just hanging up the receiver of a police 'phone attached to the telegraph pole. Phyllis A Twin If it had been day time he might also have noted the number of telegraph poles passed in a minute, and calculated the speed of the train, by allowing thirty-five poles to the mile. Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy Ezra Cornell, in Irish phrase, "invented telegraph poles." Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman "If the telephone and telegraph poles are down on the road see that you do not run into any of them." The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall "That telegraph pole I mentioned just now wasn't really very large," I explained, "and it came away quietly, offering no resistance." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 Her figure displays the uprightness of a telegraph pole, and her face presents a striking arrangement of straight lines and sharp points. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn The scouting party proceeded to hang them with wire to telegraph poles. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Phone lines across the country followed whatever path was most suitable, using twisted Don8 cable that was attached to any convenient feature, trees telegraph poles or buildings. Coming of Age: 1939-1946 I hated to have to hurt some of them but I could see I would have to or be taken myself, and perhaps strung up to ornament a telegraph pole. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" In some countries, he damages a great many telephone and telegraph poles and wires by climbing the poles in search of that swarm of bees, which he imagines he hears humming, inside the pole. Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Lying out from Nairobi are big grazing farms, many of them fenced in with barbed wire; and the peaceful rows of telegraph poles make exclamation points of civilization across the landscape. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The small boy sat at the foot of a telegraph pole, with a tin can in his hands. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers On the plains, where trees are few, the telegraph poles provide convenient nesting sites for Woodpeckers of various species. The Bird Study Book Travelling up and down that peninsula between Huron and Erie, constantly at some sort of "Meeting," Drury could see "Hard Times" on almost every telegraph pole. The Masques of Ottawa There were murmured suggestions, rejections; talk of the cross-arms on the telegraph poles, which at once became determined, decisive. Trail's End Across the plains ran the row of telegraph poles that marked the course of the railway and a traveling column of smoke indicated the busy course of a railway train. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country Then the machine began to climb a telegraph pole, and as it ran down the other side Aunt Miranda wanted to know for the tenth time if it would explode. You Should Worry Says John Henry While travelling on a slow train through Texas I counted one hundred and fifty telegraph poles in succession, thirty-nine of which contained Woodpeckers' holes. The Bird Study Book He seemed to know Quebec from Montreal to the edge of Labrador almost by telegraph poles. The Masques of Ottawa Wagon tongues upended and propped by neckyokes had been known to serve in their time, and telegraph poles when the railroad built through. Trail's End One afternoon I saw twenty-nine together, big black males, beautifully marked tawny females, and lots of little ones that loomed up like lamp posts amidst a group of telegraph poles. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The soldier then tied him to a telegraph pole, and fired on Simonin's father, who fell vomiting blood, and soon after died as he lay. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 They also again tore up the track, cut down a telegraph pole, and placed the two ends of it under the cross-ties, and the middle over the rail on the track. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure With a spyglass we could see telegraph poles stretched along the shore. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. After clinging to a telegraph pole for half an hour, she finally succumbed and was sucked under the waters. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado The wood has been fought through and but few branches remain on the trees, whose trunks, like so many untidy telegraph poles, rise to various heights from the upheaval of shell-holes and undergrowth. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry A mile farther, and the railroad telegraph poles appeared. The White Desert She sat looking out of the window, watching the trees, houses, fences and telegraph poles, as they seemed to fly past. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home There was a prodigious number of telegraph poles going in the opposite direction, hell-bent as fast as we, which poles considerately went at half speed through towns, for fear of hitting children. Journeys to Bagdad In many places people were left clinging to trees, roof-tops and telegraph poles crying for assistance. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Great fun, isn't it, having to sit up in meeting for a couple of hours straight as a telegraph pole when I might be playing football and beating the Haddam team all to hollow! Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know The box is attached to the telegraph pole, and is about twenty-four inches high, by twelve inches wide, and five inches deep. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Slowly the train moved back, slowly the telegraph poles slipped past the windows in the opposite direction. Banzai! by Parabellum She leaned back and gazed out at the flying telegraph poles and fields. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) The landscape swam by, the telegraph poles flashed past, as the flying locomotive gained headway. The Border Boys Across the Frontier The telegraph poles were thirty feet high; how was I to make a connection with only eight feet of wire and no climbers? Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers Do you see that line of telegraph poles the other side of this field? Billy Whiskers' Adventures The sight of the rails gleaming bright in the afternoon sunlight, and the telegraph poles running away in a straight line until they seemed to huddle together in the distance, increased Sutch's discomposure. The Four Feathers The Jews, and among them many children, were hanged on the telegraph poles, and the two towns destroyed. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 The mad creatures swerved and dashed themselves and her against a telegraph pole. Green Valley They had their horses hitched to the telegraph poles, and as "Bill" went running by the office I heard him say, "I'll fix that d—d operator, anyhow." Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers At daybreak General Froneman wrecked the line near America Siding, and I did the same at other places, also destroying the telegraph poles. Three Years' War He could climb a telegraph pole sideways like a parrot walking up a stick. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Ralph tried to count the telegraph poles without understanding much about their uses. Ralph Granger's Fortunes "Palm trees--like feather dusters stuck on telegraph poles!" Across the Fruited Plain Bates, I'm pretty badly233 bruised about the legs, and can't climb, but if you're able, for God's sake climb that telegraph pole and cut in and ask department headquarters to send us down some help. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers "Count the telegraph poles as we go along," suggested Ham. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark Presently the man strolled down the aisle again to close a window, out of which one fidgety boy kept leaning to spit at the flying telegraph poles. Big Brother The shape of the land is there, the hills, valleys, lines of willow stumps, ends of broken telegraph poles. Letters from France It had surged up nearer the light with the evident intention of hanging the mill-owner on one of the cross pieces of a telegraph pole near by. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong They followed the line of the telegraph poles, skirting steep coombes shrouded at the foot with beech woods, past round-eyed dew-ponds, at which cloaked shepherds were watering their flocks. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs "That's a good idea," said Mr. Jonah, but when they looked out of the portholes they couldn't find any telegraph poles. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark A large telegraph pole on our property line bisected the horizon like one of the parallels on a map. The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches In the midst of the leaders, looming over their heads, was a whitened telegraph pole. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman "What's snow made of?" asked Violet, who had been pressing her nose against the car window, looking out at the telegraph poles that seemed to whiz past so quickly. Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's He scrambled up the steep embankment, and was not long in locating a telegraph pole. Bert Wilson in the Rockies The sheriff held on; and in three or four seconds he was taking only about two steps between telegraph poles, and then—he let go. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories Beyond Vodena the road improved for a time and we fled southward at greater speed, the telegraph poles leaping at us out of the yellow dust-haze like the pikes of giant sentinels. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean They consumed acres of forests themselves in making ties, bridge timbers, and telegraph poles, and they laid a heavy tribute upon the forests for their annual upkeep. History of the United States The bear climbed a telegraph pole, and did other tricks. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus When they reached the tracks, they dismounted and tied their ponies to neighboring telegraph poles, fearing the effect the noise of the train would have on the spirited animals. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue He had a sling, and could hit a quarter on a telegraph pole with it—if there had been quarters and telegraph poles. "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Few New Yorkers have forgotten that very queer bet of his that resulted in putting high hats on all the Broadway telegraph poles. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 It made a soft and graceful drapery on the telegraph poles and wires. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Is the old grey heart of the telegraph pole stirred by these messages? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 And sure enough, away off there against the gray of the clouds was a line of high, tiny crosses, telegraph poles, near which stretched the tracks of the road. Injun and Whitey to the Rescue It was a chestnut, whose smooth bark rendered it all the more difficult to climb, but Nellie went up it as rapidly as a man ascends telegraph poles with the spikes strapped to his boots. Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 A Belgian soldier belonging to a battalion of cyclist carbineers, who had been wounded and made prisoner, was bound to a telegraph pole on the St. Trond road and shot. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Measure the heights of a tree, telegraph pole and church steeple, describing method adopted. Outdoor Sports and Games At one place the vegetation consisted of a curious mixture of gigantic cactuses, rising as single stalks as high as telegraph poles but larger in diameter, and palms. In Indian Mexico (1908) Commercial value: The wood is durable, light, smooth and fragrant, and is therefore used for making lead-pencils, cabinets, boxes, moth-proof chests, shingles, posts, and telegraph poles. Studies of Trees The ruined building is the signal box itself, protected by the line of sandbags in front of telegraph poles and shelled trees. A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire The linesman at the front—Same old job with just a couple percent more risk than usual Using a shell-shocked tree for a telegraph pole. "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 And the old autocrat, riding in the poverty of a lean run, will have plenty of opportunity to count the telegraph poles and reflect on the mutability of men and things. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers For instance, if you are in a runaway automobile, you are in ecstasy until you hit a telegraph pole; after that you're in a hospital. The Silly Syclopedia The wood of the chestnut tree, within three or four years after its death, is still sound and may be used for telephone and telegraph poles, posts, railroad ties, lumber and firewood. Studies of Trees On the corner Bessy saw a man standing with his back to a telegraph pole. The Day of the Beast The railway stretched away before us, between its double row of telegraph poles, in rigid sameness, terminating in a point at the horizon. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales The wild, bleak moors rolled past, as the train rushed onward, and the telegraph poles seemed to scamper along, as if frightened by the noise of the train. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner I veered off from the main street of the town ... a length of marching telegraph poles and flat-roofed Western houses. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative He threw stones at a telegraph pole, and was in ecstasy when a lucky shot shivered one of the glass insulators. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life He was half dragged, half carried to the corner of Front Street and the alley between Sycamore and Mill, and hung to a telegraph pole. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Mark Riley, the bill-poster, stuck up the glaring reward notices as far away as the telegraph poles in Clay County. The Daughter of Anderson Crow The trees and telegraph poles whizzed past so quickly as to be almost invisible. Through the Air to the North Pole or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch Daniel was in an obstreperous mood ... he cried out that I must be his "telegraph pole," that he would be a lineman, and climb me. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative A telegraph pole is just knee-high to this monster, and from that you can judge its speed of locomotion. Around The Tea-Table The mob gathered, went to the jail, met with no resistance, took the suspected man, dragged him out tearing every stitch of clothing from his body, then hanged him to a telegraph pole. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States I was an involuntary projectile, worrying about what was on the other side of the street and hoping that it wouldn't be a stone wall or a telegraph pole. The Road Any scale of units, however, can be used as, horse trot, telegraph poles, etc. Military Instructors Manual The telegraph poles danced off in irregular lines. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative After a while, though, they grew less excited, and sat in the big, deep seats more quietly, looking at the trees and telegraph poles that seemed to rush by so swiftly. Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's The chain was hooked around his neck, a man climbed the telegraph pole and the other end of the chain was passed up to him and made fast to the cross-arm. The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States The bending telegraph poles, weighted by the pull of snow-laden wires, was all that marked the right of way through the glen. Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp A telegraph pole, an envelope, a telephone instrument—and beside each an address. Etiquette Then, rising ridge on ridge, jumbled in picturesque confusion, and flanked by towering telegraph poles, store and bank and office climbed the slope of the hill. Alton of Somasco Then she turned to her father and asked: "How many telegraph poles are there?" Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's I wish we had Wyckoff here, I'd put it in his pockets and then climb a telegraph pole with him and throw him down good and hard. Boy Scouts in Southern Waters More to the north were rows of telegraph poles, indicating the position of other roads, on which they could distinguish the black, crawling lines of other marching regiments. The Downfall All caterers have the necessary standards to which ribbons are tied, like the wires to telegraph poles. Etiquette One night a Chinese happened to die suddenly in a house that stood near a telegraph pole. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The improvised telegraph poles of worn-out lengths of rail seen east of Tiflis give place to something more becoming. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama There were no telegraph poles in the district through which I was passing; the connections were affixed to the trunks of trees. Across China on Foot The last of the telegraph poles stood in the courtyard, and the wire from it ran to the window of the lodge, of which the blank wall looked out into the open country. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories They returned with half of a telegraph pole that had been cut in two by shell fire in the afternoon. Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz Here he was, playing for sight of an interesting girl, as another traveler timed the train-speed by the mile-posts, or counted the telegraph poles along the way. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant "Yes," came the reply, "if you don't run into a ditch or a telegraph pole." The Boy Allies at Liege My room at Hwan-lien-p'u was near a telegraph pole; there was a telegraph station there, where my men showed their admiration for the Governmental organization by at once hammering nails into the pole. Across China on Foot We started off and we were rushing along the road, passing a fence and overtaking a telegraph pole every once in a while, when suddenly we heard behind us a very insistent choof-choof-choof-choof! You Can Search Me I made note of the 888-mile post beyond Omaha, but the 1,000-mile telegraph pole and tree glided away while I was catching the lights and shadows on a fearfully tumbled landscape. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Up hill, down dale, along the dustiest of dusty roads, bordered by telegraph poles that suggested an endless lane without a turning. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 "Compared with the state of ten years ago, when the ignorant people cut down the telegraph poles and severed the wires," exclaims Count Okuma, "we seem rather to have made a century's advance." The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 Assuming, therefore, that the natives wanted our crowbars, telegraph poles, and pickaxes they had little or no money with which to pay for them. Tent Life in Siberia A scream of terror wailed down the wind as the buckboard struck a telegraph pole. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life Here is the view: One railway track and a line of staggering telegraph poles ending in a dot and a blur on the horizon. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) As the buzzing little audience gathered, boys climbed up telegraph poles with the stickers "We Want Hanna," and a small, pale-faced man with a protruding jaw was the center of a political argument for Hanna. What's the Matter with Ireland? I left the road and cut across country, following the telegraph poles. A Tramp's Sketches Not being able to do that, I told him of the bullets in the telegraph pole, and took him over to where the mail-car had stood. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 In the soft glow of their double radiance lay a yellow-wheeled buckboard, shattered and twisted round a telegraph pole. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life Here it steals away down the vista of the telegraph poles with an awed whisper—steals away and sinks into the soil. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) One thing he was careful to do, was to avoid all telegraph poles, as that he thought the wires could detect and betray him, the telegraph was a mystery to his ignorant mind. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives I was sure you wouldn't write one of those tall, angular hands, ten words to a page, which remind one of linked telegraph poles. The Brown Study "Hip, hip, hurrah! for Citizen Bird and friendly House People!" drummed the Downy Woodpecker, beating away for dear life on a telegraph pole. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners "I could eat a fried telegraph pole, and like it!" Boy Scouts on Motorcycles With the Flying Squadron I took the mashie, because I distrusted my ability to carry the bunker with another telegraph pole. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 Then you pass the telegraph poles at the rate of thirty-four miles. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 In four languages it announced that any one caught near a telegraph pole or wire in any manner that looked suspicious to the authorities would be summarily dealt with. In the Claws of the German Eagle "I love dogs," said the black-and-white Downy Woodpecker, running up a telegraph pole in search of grubs; "dogs have bones to eat and I like to pick bones, especially in winter." Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Escaped from Polyphemus, a one-eyed giant, by sticking a burning telegraph pole in his eye. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be I selected a driver about the length of a telegraph pole and swept my ball away. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 The train passes the telegraph poles at the rate of thirty miles an hour, say. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 During the brief fight Tarzan had noted the open window and, beyond, the stem of a tree, or a telegraph pole—he could not tell which. Return of Tarzan I got hold of a stiff copper wire and supported the down-lead on two enormous bell insulators as used on telegraph poles. The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view MARCONI, Guglielmo, the man who made the inventors of telegraph poles and wires look foolish. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be That pole was a part of a telegraph pole. Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat At last, late in the afternoon, they descried several stone church towers in the heart of a bluish ridge, and, beyond, the white road with its curling spirals of dust and its gray telegraph poles. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution The wind was whistling up the street and whipping the naked cottonwood trees against the telegraph poles and the sides of the houses. The Song of the Lark The indicator of the steam gauge rose; his speed increased; a glance at the telegraph poles told him he was doing his fifty miles an hour. The Octopus : A story of California The store-keepers plastered up their windows with all sorts of lies to entice you; the very fences by the wayside, the lampposts and telegraph poles, were pasted over with lies. The Jungle Beside the railroad a procession of telegraph poles marched with dipping loops of wire between. The Bronze Bell Dan sat rigid with his back to the telegraph pole, his feet in the gutter, his mouth fallen open, staring dully ahead of him. Calvary Alley It rose, girded with many wires and giant telegraph poles, roof above roof, up a low rise, on the crest of which towering pines still lifted their ragged spires against the evening sky. Vane of the Timberlands Near at hand the wires between the telegraph poles vibrated with a faint humming under the multitudinous fingering of the myriad of falling drops, striking among them and dripping off steadily from one to another. The Octopus : A story of California Well," he said; and then, after a long pause, "I can't see any telegraph poles. Alarms and Discursions Found him one morning across the river, leaning up against a telegraph pole, dead broke. The Under Dog Then Irish Mike says to Red, 'You better hit the breeze,' but we ketched him—a telegraph pole was handy—I says, 'Have you got anything to say?' A Woman Tenderfoot Mr. Bordine was hurled out against a telegraph pole and severely injured. Five Thousand Dollars Reward Annixter came from behind the telegraph pole with a flush of actual shame upon his face. The Octopus : A story of California If any one had a doctrine about a telegraph pole it might be carved in ivory and decked with gold. Alarms and Discursions On the Green two grey stone pillar fountains; a few wooden benches; telegraph poles. Mary Olivier: a Life There were no telegraph poles inside the corral, but the engineer, having passed the gate, ran to the nearest post, and saw there a new wire fastened to the insulator, and reaching to the ground. The Mysterious Island The miniature railways and telegraph poles, the bridges and tunnels, might almost escape notice in the ancient green of the landscapes. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Annixter stepped back a little, getting a telegraph pole somewhat between him and the other. The Octopus : A story of California No; these telegraph poles are ugly and detestable, they are inhuman and indecent. Alarms and Discursions Trees, houses, ponds, danced past, cut by a mist of telegraph poles. The King in Yellow Yes, in a way I know these telegraph poles across the mountains very well. Look Back on Happiness The tall gray telegraph poles crept by with monotonous regularity until Harvey turned away and looked out at the dim meadows on the left, over which was spread a ghostly film of mist. The Short Line War He tried to lay violent hands on him and wipe up the ground with him and wear him out across a telegraph pole. Remarks Then the telegraph poles began to trouble her; she got into the habit of glancing aloft for nests of Cupids, and once or twice she thought she saw them. Under the Skylights In the distance is a row of telegraph poles, and far, far away on the horizon are the indistinct signs of a large town, which can only be seen on the finest and clearest days. Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series A glance at the telegraph poles will explain all that has just been said. Steam, Steel and Electricity One of you men climb that telegraph pole and knock the insulating cap off. Tom of the Raiders He took from his coat pocket a printed slip, gummed on one side, and told Sam that he had been putting them on walls and telegraph poles about town. Windy McPherson's Son I climbed up a bank on my right, and searching for a place to lie found one under a tree near a great telegraph pole. The Path to Rome "It looks like a bit sawn off a telegraph pole," he said. Rujub, the Juggler In five days our gang did two telegraph poles more than the competing gang! My Life and Work Scott was already halfway up a telegraph pole. Tom of the Raiders On one of his journeys down, he came upon several gangs of men at work on the moors; putting down stone sockets and fixing telegraph poles. Growth of the Soil Then I half opened my eyes and saw the telegraph pole, the trees, and the lake. The Path to Rome She doesn't know a relocation from a telegraph pole. The Claim Jumpers The forests rushed by; the flag station rushed by; fences and telegraph poles rushed by; but the train stood still. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Immediately about Des Sarts stood many telegraph poles in a row, for here the road, which was the main road from Paris to Brussels, curved close up under the grass-covered bastions. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front In the banks of a low stream near our first camp were holes made by woodpeckers, who in this country look in vain for trees and telegraph poles. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru I could tell you a lot of things that happened that day, because we did a lot of good turns, and one bad turn, when we grazed a telegraph pole. Roy Blakeley On each side of me the broad, white, moonlit roadway stretched away into the night, flanked by a row of telegraph poles which stood out like gaunt sentries. A Rogue by Compulsion It was the telegraph pole which strode by at short paces. American Indian stories "Making time?" repeated Tom Rover as he gazed out of the car window at the telegraph poles flashing past. The Rover Boys at College Or, The Right Road and the Wrong Beyond a certain turn—did we remember?—well, it would be exactly sixteen telegraph poles further on. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Curiously they followed with their eyes the thin line of rails and telegraph poles leading southward until it was lost in the mystic depths of color. The Winning of Barbara Worth First they would pass a gang of laborers working on the road, or perhaps a man walking up and down telegraph poles with sharp-shod heels; then appeared humble houses with children playing thickly around them. Old Caravan Days Bring her to a stop, kid; here, alongside this telegraph pole. The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup The offer of the mere site of a road and ground for telegraph poles was of no use. Canada and the States But my brother, being precise, judged it to a fraction of a telegraph pole. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come Puffing at it as he walked to the door, he gazed casually around and finally centered his attention on a telegraph pole standing on the edge of the sidewalk. Average Jones Tearing down the telegraph poles as it crossed the Harlem & New Haven Railroad track, it surged angrily up around the building where the drafting was going on. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 There yet remained a few telegraph poles to be passed before reaching the bantayan, or little watch-house, at the entrance to the town. The Social Cancer "Look out for telegraph poles, and watch your fuel tank," was Grimshaw's final injunction. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane They are proclaimed along the fences and up the telegraph poles. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The lank person addressed removed his weight from the telegraph pole that had supported it and sauntered forward. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Meanwhile, the rioters kept strengthening the barricades between Thirty-seventh and Forty-third Streets, in Eighth Avenue, by lashing carts, wagons, and telegraph poles together with wire stripped from the latter. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 Fortunately the telegraph poles along the right of way acted as guides, for, in the gathering darkness, the tracks were hardly visible. The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings At length, as he had said, he brought up within sight of the telegraph poles along the railway. The Law of the Land He stood at the corner slouched against a telegraph pole, with the camp fence, surmounted by three strands of barbed wire, behind him, wondering which way he would go. Three Soldiers A telegraph pole was near, and he leaned against it for support. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century At which he blushed and almost carromed the trap against a telegraph pole. A Fool There Was So he wrote out a notice, advertising the property for sale, and tacked it to a telegraph pole in front of the eating-house. The Long Chance I thought every telegraph pole was a hobo laying for me, clean down to the station. Tales of the Road Suddenly a figure on a telegraph pole attracted her attention; it wore a red necktie and it was throwing kisses. Lovey Mary As far as the eye could reach stretched the roadbed and its telegraph poles, finally disappearing in the haze of the morning. The Flyers How she loved this old town, with its streets deep in black spring mud, its mud-plastered "buck-boards" and saddle horses hitched at every telegraph pole! Sylvia's Marriage Marbles were to him merely things to be used to indicate telegraph poles, with glass and agate alleys as stations. The Shagganappi The two Sioux in the ranch were bound hand and foot, and laid in one corner of the room; then my Indians returned to the telegraph pole to finish their dance. The Great Salt Lake Trail Then the smaller twins tried to count the telegraph poles and the trees that flashed past, and soon this made them rather drowsy. The Bobbsey Twins in Washington Vehicles of all kinds within reach, telegraph poles, boxes,—anything that would obstruct,—were wired together. An Original Belle Then just as the frightened little animal shied clear of a telegraph pole, and with head high in the air seemed to make a final dash, he was suddenly pulled back. The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. I hunted elephant in British East Africa until they posted a reward for me on the telegraph poles. The Ivory Trail Next morning I was awakened by most unearthly yells, and looking out, saw my Indians leaping and dancing and yelling around the telegraph pole, where they now had a large fire burning. The Great Salt Lake Trail She had placed her gloved hand against a telegraph pole to steady her trembling, but her face was resolute, imperious, commanding. Graustark Every thing was interesting, from the telegraph poles by the wayside to the faces of their fellow-passengers. What Katy Did at School She is now eighty-three years old, and erect as a telegraph pole. The Fiend's Delight The water was dashed on the fronts of the neighbouring houses, thrown all over the street, splashed against the telegraph poles, and poured in torrents over the excited crowd. Nonsense Novels For miles and miles there was not a remnant of anything inflammable remaining,—nothing but brick, stone, broken crockery, iron and telegraph poles. San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906 There was a line of telegraph poles, and where it crossed our road there were buildings enough to have contained two regiments. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders The slush and melted snow was freezing, and the north side of every lamp post and telegraph pole was sheeted with ice. The Pit Boys from High school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, windowsills, cornices, gutters, chimneypots, railings, rainspouts, whistling and cheering the pillar of the cloud appears. Ulysses At this point of his argument the professor was nearly-run down by a delivery boy on a bicycle and saved himself only by a sharp collision with a telegraph pole. The Window-Gazer But there are telegraph poles and the lines of a railroad, which traverse it in company, and disappear in the empty horizon. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Up and down the Main Street are telegraph poles of cedar of colossal thickness, standing at a variety of angles and carrying rather more wires than are commonly seen at a transatlantic cable station. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Truly, my dear, if this goes on much longer, I'll go out and climb the telegraph pole in front of the house! The Naturewoman "What's doing now, boy?" shouted Duff to the urchin clinging to the telegraph pole. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land There’s a washout a mile further on, and a telegraph pole across the track. Cap'n Warren's Wards The rails and the telegraph poles have disappeared; by the magic of twilight everything is become grand again, beneath one of those evening skies of Egypt which, in winter, resemble cold cupolas of metal. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) High up on a telegraph pole, his foot on one of the climbing spikes, was a man directing and encouraging the attack. To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today Many times I've seen him sitting on top of a telegraph pole. The Burgess Bird Book for Children Do you see the great telegraph poles down in the water, how every wire is distinct? Forty-Two Poems "Ten more telegraph poles and we run into Breakwater," announced Duncan, while Tom eyed his speedometer. The Motor Girls on a Tour There were no telegraph poles to count, nor cows to see grazing in green meadows. The Iceberg Express You, Jenghiz Khans," said he, rubbing his frozen hands, "take your axes and go up there to the left on the mountain and you will find the telegraph poles that have been cut down. Beasts, Men and Gods His friend settled to his satisfaction, Hunt buckled on the climbing irons, and crossing the road, proceeded to climb a telegraph pole which stood opposite the lane. The Pit Prop Syndicate Hotchkiss was listening absently: McKnight was whistling under his breath, staring down across the field to where a break in the woods showed a half dozen telegraph poles, the line of the railroad. The Man in Lower Ten Moreover, as his furtive glance went round the ring of faces, he doubted whether a rope and the nearest telegraph pole might not be his fate if he went the limit. Bucky O'Connor That left me where she had been, and the car caught me up and slammed me head first against a telegraph pole. The Log of the Jolly Polly He returned after an hour with a big section of a telegraph pole. Beasts, Men and Gods “No trees, no bluffs, no cabins, no telegraph poles, nothin’,” moaned Red Bill; “nothin’ respectable enough nor big enough to swing the toes of a five-foot man clear o’ the ground. The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke As the volcano was approached semi-night replaced the day, the gloom being so deep that telegraph poles twenty feet away could not be seen. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire The far-away sky—a bright, pure blue—was reflected in the puddles, and the drops, swimming along the telegraph poles, flashed into points of light. The Garden Party and Other Stories But where my head had hit the telegraph pole a large bump had risen which made my hat too small. The Log of the Jolly Polly It was cut into two parts by the road along which the prostrate telegraph poles now lay, as the stumps of varying heights and long stretches of wire completed the debris. Beasts, Men and Gods Through the dumb town the locomotive bell tolls pervadingly when a train of freight or passengers trundles in from the horizon or out along the dwindling fence of telegraph poles. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories It's the telegraph poles you see, and they are no nearer together than on another railroad. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails There's three hundred miles of country straight west, and not so much as a telegraph pole! The Heritage of the Sioux He met a Cheyenne telegraph pole in seventy-four, and was buried. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Before long we struck the road which we had travelled coming north and saw again the kindly rows of chopped down telegraph poles which had once so warmly protected us. Beasts, Men and Gods The sky, the wind, the telegraph poles, had been jabbing in the harsh lesson of these men's voices, that the church, as people say, "wasn't in it." Soul of a Bishop |
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