| 单词 | telegraph post |
| 例句 | He is like several broken telegraph posts and swims at immense speed. Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? 2013-05-02T11:05:58Z I have been moved to call them telegraph posts, standing along the coast, each flashing its spark from cape to headland, the almost commingling rays being golden threads of happy intelligence to all mariners. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Ah! but she is out again into the glare of the day, and again the telegraph posts go popping past as fast as one could wink. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z After a time, they saw telegraph posts, a break in the rocks, and two or three small houses. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Above the profile of a hill a telegraph post suddenly showed itself against the grey of the misty twilight. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Setting up telegraph posts for elephants and rhinos to butt into is an expensive game. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z And then—— Then I saw that our left wing tip had crashed into a telegraph post. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z He got out of the town, and walked along a road till he came to an old woman sitting in the hedge, with her back up against a telegraph post. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z As they approached the line of telegraph posts Kenneth made his way ahead and dropped on his hands and knees. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z He stood still and looked round him, taking his bearings; in the solitude the telegraph posts hummed to each other, full of information and entirely reticent. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z By this time the sepoys had torn down the telegraph posts and cut the wires in all directions. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z With light feet but heart of lead, I ran across to another telegraph post, leaving the pilot to ascertain whether by some miracle we might not be able to get our machine to safety. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z From the train he had noted a line of telegraph posts in the distance, and he stepped out smartly along a by-road until he gained the main thoroughfare. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z He walked with firm steps to a telegraph post, stood against it, and with the green vineyard behind him, smiled as they shot him dead. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z So she dismounted and led Scruff back beside the telegraph post, against which the weary animal calmly leaned his shoulder and went to sleep. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch He distinguished with difficulty between a man and a telegraph post, and wore a smile of mingled apprehension and confidence. Yiddish Tales We made a perfect landing, and ran straight and evenly towards the telegraph posts. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The oscillation was most marked, and walls and telegraph posts seemed to fly past so quickly as to dazzle the sight. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days And Jason Mulford is as stuck up as a telegraph post over her luck. Helen Grant's Schooldays Then, as we hear the pulse of the engine throbbing quicker and quicker, and the telegraph posts seem to have started off into a frantic gallopade along the line, we plunge into a plantation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 He had no guide before him but the telegraph posts. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years Imagine a corporation president climbing a telegraph post to see Jesus! The Social Principles of Jesus He scowled out at the reeling line of telegraph posts. Rim o' the World They had undertaken to clear a track of stated width, along which pack-horses could travel, as well as fix the telegraph posts; and a bank of big loose stones would, be a troublesome obstacle. Partners of the Out-Trail Snow lay in great expanses, the telegraph posts strode over the white earth, away under the gloom of the sky. The Rainbow The definition of this lightning-like picture is truly wonderful, the details of the mechanism on the flying locomotive standing out as sharply as the immovable telegraph posts and palings beside the line. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years We see the telegraph posts and the trees and buildings near the line fly past us one after another in the contrary direction. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language He tried to dismiss the notion from his mind, but he caught sight of the telegraph posts speeding past the windows, and he shook his fist at them malignantly. Fantômas A row of telegraph posts crossed the stony belt, but one or two had fallen in the night and Jim carefully studied the ground. Partners of the Out-Trail I am sure it is a fortunate thing that the telegraph posts are of iron. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition There was nothing else to show that man had ever been there before, except the spectral row of telegraph posts that dwindled in long perspective to the horizon. Lorimer of the Northwest Following the telegraph posts, which mark the route from Egypt to Syria, we then entered the rolling desert, and soon began to enjoy that feeling of freedom which a boundless plain always inspires. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria Supposing one of the telegraph posts at the side wanted a touch of tar, how could you notice it going at that pace! The Prodigal Father When I was returning from Catania I looked out of the side windows of the train and saw that the telegraph posts, as we passed by, were some distance apart. Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions “Although the Lively can show a fast pair of heels, we cannot go quite so fast as this,” said papa, as he remarked the speed at which we dashed by the telegraph posts. A Yacht Voyage Round England I determined to ride back down the pass to the field telegraph post at its mouth. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly In the first group of palms near the Koubba is the telegraph station, or little house of the Arab watchmen who see to the maintenance of the telegraph posts and wires. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria An immense amount of impedimenta in the shape of pontoons, telegraph posts and wires, ammunition, and provisions followed the infantry in perfect order. The Philippine Islands I could see telegraph posts, and knew that the railway was just ahead. Pushed and the Return Push Back flew iterative telegraph posts with Herculean swing, into the Past, looped together in rhythmic movement, marking the pulses of old Time. The Daughters of Danaus So the time passed, the minutes flitting by, like the telegraph posts, in the dark, and Maitland reached the familiar Oxford Station. The Mark Of Cain Still keeping to the telegraph posts, we soon came within sight of the castle of El Harish, the last outpost eastward of the Egyptian Government. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria He started; very soon afterwards word came back that he had run into a telegraph post and killed himself and his driver. Ranching, Sport and Travel Then for hours, in the Pullman chair car, he fidgeted, counting the telegraph posts, checking off the stations as they flipped past the windows, through a day of eagerness, of excited, racking anticipation. The White Desert Two coast survey signals were found, the 'Jump telegraph post,' and 'Salt-work's chimney top,' of which the geodetic relations were known, and the work was founded upon a base line connecting these two points. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Spotlessly white were her buckskin moccasins and leggings, which encased a pair of tiny feet and then wound round and round her sturdy legs until they looked as shapeless as telegraph posts. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Continuing to follow the telegraph posts, we came, after some distance, to rising ground, from which we had a wide view of the almost flat valley, which was covered with the above-named shrubs. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria I have twice come on corpses swinging in the wind, hung from trees or telegraph posts. Ranching, Sport and Travel "A telegraph post," she next announced, but she was again unsuccessful. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua When looking out of the window of a railway carriage, I can at will picture to my mind the trees and telegraph posts as moving objects. Illusions A Psychological Study The telegraph posts, leaning away from the wind, seemed somehow scantier; the road stretched between them, lonely and desolate. Nobody's Man The first thing I came to was the house, built of clay and straw, similar to that described at El Harish, where the man lives who keeps the telegraph posts and wires in working order. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria The very telegraph posts seemed to gape with envy and admiration as he passed. More William Already the fields seemed flying past the window, and the telegraph posts had commenced their frantic race. The Survivor There’s one good thing about it, you know how Highland landscape is spoiled by telegraph posts?’ p. The Disentanglers Strewn over the road were dead horses, of all carcasses the most ludicrously pitiful, and wound in and out of them, a witches' web, crawled the wire from the splintered telegraph posts. Adventures of a Despatch Rider A patrol suddenly came across a colonist who had climbed up a telegraph post and was busily engaged in cutting the wires. With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Evidently to make sure of the range of some telegraph post. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria He did not know if he found the shining rails and row of telegraph posts that curved away down the hillside out of place, but somehow they made him feel foolishly unconventional. Carmen's Messenger I don’t care for that kind of thing myself, but Macrae thinks it Paradise to get messages from the Central News and the Stock Exchange up here, fifty miles p. 325from a telegraph post. The Disentanglers Or a telegraph post by the side of the road, seen against the long horizontal line of a hill at sunset. The Practice and Science of Drawing Day by day, while the dust whirled by them, and the gaunt telegraph posts came up out of the far horizon and sank into the east, they raced across the wide levels. Alton of Somasco The yemshicks said they were guided by the telegraph posts, which followed the line of road. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Perhaps because trees, telegraph posts, and drifts of snow kept flitting past her eyes, all sorts of disconnected ideas came rushing into her mind. The Darling and Other Stories How nice those solid, silent telegraph posts are! Love Its course is marked afar by lines of puny trees, sooty as snuffed candles; by telegraph posts and their long spider-webs; by bushes or by fences, which are like the skeletons of bushes. Light They spend thousands upon thousands of pounds in beautifying their cities with very fine buildings, and then they disfigure them all by carrying down the pavements the most villainous-looking telegraph posts that ever were constructed. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 The telegraph posts were fixed above Gorbitza, but the wires had not been strung. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Soon the friends grew accustomed to the darkness, and were able to distinguish the outlines of the tall pines and telegraph posts. The Darling and Other Stories The Romans built up the solid foundations of the greater part of this highway which passes through no villages, though it has several within a short distance of its straight hedges and interminable telegraph posts. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The company sent off immediately a gang of workmen to repair the line and set up the telegraph posts; and in a day everything would be clear again. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent I have not observed the quarter-mile posts," said I. "Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Bruno ran it against a telegraph post, by accident. Sylvie and Bruno If this does not serve your purpose, you draw his attention to the bird on the tree only a hundred feet away, or you challenge him to race with you to the next telegraph post. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Then he turned to the view in front; and, as it happened, one of the telegraph posts stood up in front of him in the last sunlight. Alarms and Discursions To the left lay the broad Portsmouth Road curving over the hill, with a line of gaunt telegraph posts marking its course. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Steinmetz tumbled heavily out of his furs and went toward the nearest telegraph post. The Sowers As you go eastward, for instance, across the evacuated ground you notice everywhere signs of increasing haste and flurry, such as the less complete felling of trees and telegraph posts. Towards the Goal The telegraph posts along the track melted into the level waste, and behind the spot where they vanished the tops of a larger group of elevators cut the edge of the plain. Lister's Great Adventure I said something like this to my friend; and he answered with sardonic truth, "Ah, you wait till we come to a telegraph post." Alarms and Discursions In Hester Street, hard by a telegraph post, There sits a poor woman as wan as a ghost. Songs of Labor and Other Poems The road itself was, of course, indistinguishable, but the telegraph posts marked its course. The Sowers They think nothing of sitting whole hours on the top of a post—maybe a little thicker than an ordinary telegraph post. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan Almost until the dawn he walked, keeping as near as he could to that long monotonous line of telegraph posts, yet avoiding the road as much as possible. The Tempting of Tavernake "Is that telegraph post so much a symbol of democracy?" Alarms and Discursions Directly the train was clear of the station, she lowered a window and, taking aim at a telegraph post, threw the apple from her with all her might. The Getting of Wisdom Kerr had offered him a contract for hauling a quantity of telegraph posts and logs across the snow, and his calculations indicated that the work ought to be profitable. The Girl from Keller's "You can see the old spire from the Ridgeway," he said, suddenly laying a hand on Rickie's knee, "before rain as clearly as any telegraph post." The Longest Journey Now they came upon an ancient barrow, now upon a row of telegraph posts running one after another into the distance and disappearing into the horizon, and the wires hummed mysteriously. The Witch and other stories Compared with the telegraph post the pines were crooked—and alive. Alarms and Discursions "Couldn't we," suggested Phyllis, breathlessly, "couldn't we climb up a telegraph post and do something to the wires?" The Railway Children The steppe presents nothing to attract notice but the long line of the telegraph posts, their wires vibrating in the breeze like the strings of a harp. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar After that Andy Green continued to stare out of the window, seeing nothing of the scenery but the flicker of telegraph posts before his eyes that were visioning the future. The Flying U's Last Stand The fields, the telegraph posts, and the forest could not be seen for the fog of snow. The Schoolmistress, and other stories On the way thither they saw four men hanging from the telegraph posts by the roadside, who had been hung for stealing swedes. The World Set Free |
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