51 adjectives to describe telegrams

The episode was thus described by the Italian minister, Giolitti: "On the 9th of August, 1913, about a year before the war broke out, I, being then absent from Rome, received from my colleague, San Giuliano, the following telegram: 'Austria has communicated to us and to Germany her intention to act against Serbia, and defines such action as defensive, hoping to apply the casus foederis of the Triple Alliance, which I consider inapplicable.

He flew away to Chatham as fast as a deliberate railway service permitted, and found upon arrival that an urgent telegram from the Adjutant-General had preceded him.

With that kind of prescience which he had so frequently displayed in the Dreyfus affair, he felt certain that something very important had occurred, for otherwise such a mysterious telegram would never have been sent him.

The first engagements are described in the official telegrams from the German army head-quarters.

"I've been doing naught else since I got that wireless telegram.

By his confidence in Gabrielle, his care that nobody ever got a chance inside that safe, his regular consultations with Goslin (who travelled from Paris specially to see him), his constant telegrams in cipher, and his refusal to allow even his wife to obtain the slightest inkling into his private affairs, it is shown that he fears exposure.

Another later telegram proclaimed that the Canal had been reached, British men-of-war sunk, the Englishmen routedwith a loss to the Turks of five men and two camels, "which were afterwards recovered.

At that time the girl knew nothing of Colonel Henry; she understood very little about the Dreyfus case; and all she had to go upon was the enigmatical telegram and M. Zola's talk during the evening, when he was expressing his thoughts aloud.

She had been in the habit of sending him frequent telegrams as to her patient's condition.

" "It wasn't a cipher telegram.

Then, it was just before I hurried round here to see you that I received a cypher telegram from her, warning me that Count Godenskyof whom you've probably heardan attaché of the Russian embassy in Paris, somehow has come to suspect aera game in high politics which she and I have been playing; her last, according to present intentions, as I told you.

Let a hungry person be anxiously awaiting a hearty meal, when suddenly a disastrous telegram is brought him; all appetite instantly disappears, and the tempting food is refused.

Acting on their advice I sent a distressful telegram roundabout through Switzerland to Paris.

These young people were great extravagants of the emotional telegram.

" She had got home that morning summoned by a telegram, one of those carefully composed encouraging telegrams that are a simple distillate of despair.

On being appealed to the Secretary of the Linnaean Society sent the following somewhat enigmatic telegram: "Recommend CLEMENCEAU non-Papa, who may know something of Uncle Sam.

Miss Annabel looked rebellious, but as usual found discretion the better part and contented herself with another facial telegram to Esther: "Find out what is the matter with him."

Since that time false telegrams about the entry of the Russian army into Constantinople have been sent home to disturb, and paralyse, and reverse the deliberations of Parliament, and have actually stopped these deliberations, and led experienced statesmen to withhold their action because of this intelligence, which was afterwards, and shortly afterwards, shown to be wholly without ground.

Bruce had repeated it too often; and, why on earth should Mitchell suddenly take to sending Bruce fantastic telegrams and signing them, for no reason, with an initial?...

At any rate he would keep back the fatal telegram for a day.

She made me get her the foreign telegram forms, and wrote a long telegram, thinking between the words, but never altering one.

Just after the poor little one was dead frantic telegrams had come from the Morleys, in consternation at his disappearance, and Mimo, quite prostrate in his sorrow, as he had been at her mother's death, had left all practical things to Zara.

"Dr. Michaelis is the trusted no-hold-out until their plans of annexation have been carried out, and they always receive a gracious telegram in reply.

In the meantime telegrams at a very great cost had been flying backwards and forwards between Cambridge and Sydney.

He must have them both by this time; why on earth doesn't he send full information and not such a measly telegram as this!"

51 adjectives to describe  telegrams