He also sent horsemen forward along his line of march, with orders to the local authorities to bring stores of provisions and refreshment of every kind to the roadside, and to have relays of carriages ready for the conveyance of the wearied soldiers.

Long ago Gratton had had from her lips what rumours had been repeated by her father to her mother and then relayed on to her own ears.

So now I, in my turn, have the honour to inform you that, anticipating this call, I have had relays of detectives waiting in this hotel day and night, with instructions to guard the doors as soon as you were shown up to my rooms.

"If relays of eyes were to be hired like post-horses, I would never admit any but select companions: they afford a constant variety of entertainment, and is almost the only one pleasing in the enjoyment and inoffensive in the consequence.

Besides this preamble, they farther commanded, that all due honour should be shown to the three ambassadors of the khan, and service performed to them in all the countries and districts subject to his authority, as to himself in person; that all necessary relays of horses and escorts, and their expences, and every thing needful should be supplied to them freely and gratuitously.

They travelled by night; 'each individual of the party occupying his own separate carriage, and being conveyed along at a hand gallop by a succession of single ponies, relayed at stages of four to five miles in length.'

But now, confining our attention to M. Micheletwho is quite sufficient to lead a man into a gallop, requiring two relays, at least, of fresh readers,we in Englandwho know him best by his worst book, the book against Priests, &c., which has been most circulatedknow him disadvantageously.

And this wilderness can be safely traversed only by having relays of fountains, or stages for refreshment.

Sayri Tupac, anxious to see something of the world, went directly to Lima, traveling in a litter made of rich materials, carried by relays chosen from the three hundred Indians who attended him.

As she seemed not to care how much money was spent, relays of men, many men, were put on to work night as well as day.

He is always setting out on a fresh scent: there are always relays of topics; the harness is put to, and he rattles away as delightfully and as briskly as ever.

We have dismantled and sealed up every wireless plant we could find in America except those under direct government control, yet we are positive that every day wireless messages go from this country somewhereperhaps to Mexico or South America, and from there are relayed to Germany, probably by way of Spain.

I have shown elsewhere how necessary it is to proceed absolutely systematically in the arrangements for relays of supplies, since the operative capabilities of the army depend on this system.

One of the servants, walking up and down the table-cloth with brandy and relays of vegetables, was drunk very early in the game and had to be thrown out.

There is now a regular communication by water between this town, London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol; to the three former places, goods are delivered on the fourth day, upon a certainty; there being relays of horses stationed every fifteen miles.

" An hour later a crackling message was hurled into the empty Christmas sky, a message that pulsed through the voids, was relayed over ice and brine and drifted forests to a lonely, brooding man three thousand miles away.

Why hadn't he cabled her at the first moment of his decision to sail or why hadn't he relayed his wireless across when the opportunity had offered?

They came now to a shuffling halt at a word of command relayed from some place beyond the bridge, where a new jumble of traffic could be dimly discerned.

Article 4.2.3: Switches and relays.

When there are more than 350 saloon passengers, each meal has to be served in two relays.

And he was just a little ashamed of his own recent impatience at Najib, when he remembered how the superintendent was pushing the relays of consignments along.

The alarm of fire was relayed to the court-house.

This wheel the villagers, working by relays, cause to revolve with great rapidity till fire is produced by friction.

We started out quite early in the morning, with relays of horses to meet us on the way.

The wheels were covered thick with India-rubber; relays had been provided, and Monckton and his party rolled along day and night to Liverpool.