Do we say telegram or telegraph

telegram 1401 occurrences

If in the morning no telegram came from Acredale, it would be proof that her father was bent, implacably in his purpose to undo Jack, living or dead.

It will require a mere telegram to find out.

On reaching her lodgings she found a telegram waiting her.

This order was confirmed by telegram a quarter of an hour later as the brigadier was about to reconnoitre a line of approach.

A Vienna telegram published in Berlin informed the German public that: "News received from Warsaw deny the rumours that a revolution has broken out in Russian-Poland, but it is true that yesterday the entire citadel in Warsaw was blown up.

The Deutscher Kurier told its readers in a telegram from New York (?) that Americans fully expected Japan to attack Russia in the back and Japanese ministers were holding conferences all day and night.

Exactly at six minutes to one (midday) on August 1st, a telegram left Berlin instructing the German Ambassador in St. Petersburg to declare war on Russia at 5 p.m. if the latter State had not given a satisfactory answer to Germany's ultimatum by that time.

"Just before this telegram came into the Czar's hands, the Czar, on his side, begged the Kaiser for his help: the Kaiser should advise Vienna to be more moderate.

"As late as the afternoon of July 31st a telegram came from the Czar to the Kaiser in which the former pledged himself that his army should take up no provocative attitude against us.

] Germany had no earthly excuse to begin war on France, and imitating the noble example of Bismarck in forging the notorious Ems telegram which precipitated the 1870 war, the German military authorities forged the "news" of alleged attacks by French airmen and French troops.

In Prince Heinrich's telegram to the King of England, July 30th, the following passage occurs: "If you really and sincerely wish to prevent this terrible misfortune (a European war), may I propose that you should exercise your influence on France and Russia to keep them both neutral (in the Austro-Serbian quarrel).

His telegram to the King of England was a trick planned long ago.

[Footnote 110: On September 8th, 1914, the Kaiser sent a long telegram to President Wilson, in which he defended the German armies against the charges of ruthless atrocities.

Old Heck exclaimed, "it's a telegram!"

"He's mine, I reckon," Skinny retorted, "an' I figure it's nobody's darn' business how I ride himanyhow I brought Old Heck a telegram!"

Old Heck repeated, slowly turning the envelope over in his hand, "it's a telegram!

The arrival of the telegram telling of the coming of Carolyn June Dixon, Old Heck's niece, and Ophelia Cobb, her chaperon, filled with varying emotions the hearts of Old Heck, Parker and the cowboys.

It was marvelous news borne by the telegram Skinny brought.

" "Send them a telegram and say Old Heck's dead and not to come," Bert Lilly volunteered.

"Aw, you blamed idiot, they'd come anyhow then, just to attend the funeral" "I got an idea," Chuck Slithers exclaimed; it's a telegram too.

Answer by return telegram so I'll know your intentions.

I meant going straight down to Bryndermere; and I should have done so, but two days ago I received a telegram telling me that the place would not be ready, and that he would not be there until the eleventh, and asking me to fill up the interval by sending down some horses and carriages.

"Oddly enough, I received no telegram from my wife, but under the circumstances I could do nothing else than return to my home at once.

CHAPTER XXV JUDGMENT A telegram from Major Doyle corroborated Le Drieux's assertion that Jack Andrews had arrived at the port of New York via the Princess Irene on January twenty-seventh.

*** A Vienna telegram states that the Emperor KARL has handed the Grand Cross of St. Stephen to the GERMAN CHANCELLOR.

telegraph 2450 occurrences

Oh, he must find means to write, to telegraph.

The telegraph gong was clanging and the beat of engines slackened as he followed the orders.

The sight of the station, from which a train was just leaving, frightened her for a moment with its bustle and many lights; but she rallied under the stress of her purpose, and, entering, found the telegraph office, from which she sent this message, directed to her physician, at home, Dr. Carpenter: "Look for me on early train.

Then he grew nervous, fearing that Nurse Unwin would come to herself and telegraph Carmel's escape, and so prepare the prosecution for his great stroke.

BY TELEGRAPH.

It was but a telegraph blankall

Naught but a telegraph blank, lad.

"It was a telegraph blank, he said.

The little man had been searching the pockets of the clothing taken from the chest, and from a faded velvet coat he drew out the telegraph blank.

During the evening Uncle John was busy at the telegraph booth.

" "Come with me to the telegraph office and I'll see what I can do to straighten this out," said Mr. Merrick briskly.

" The superintendent had just wired instructions to put the outlaw in jail when Mr. Merrick reached the telegraph office, but after an hour spent in sending messages back and forth a compromise was affected and the little millionaire had agreed to pay a goodly sum to the company by way of damages and to satisfy the crew of the freight trainwhich he succeeded in doing by a further outlay of money.

" When on July 31 the British foreign minister inquired by telegraph both at Paris and Berlin whether the two governments would engage to respect the neutrality of Belgium, France replied with an assurance that she was resolved to do so unless compelled to act otherwise by reason of the violation of Belgium's neutrality at the hands of another power.

"In the meantime, about five in the afternoon, I received a most unexpected message from General Joffre by telegraph, telling me that at least three German corps were moving on my position in front and that a second corps was engaged in a turning movement from the direction of Tournai.

"The line of retreat of the Austro-German forces was blocked with debris of every kindvaluable military supplies, telephone and telegraph installations, light railway and other stores, bridging materialin fact, everything needed by a modern army was flung away in flight.

Whoever cuts telegraph wires, destroys railway bridges or roads or commits any act in detriment to the Germans will be shot.

The press, the telegraph, the telephone, and the growing habit of travel bind us closer together every year; and the English that we speak, however rich and various it may be, is going to remain one and the same English, our common inheritance.

Through the engine-room ventilators a long jingle of the telegraph was heard; and directly the Sybarite's pulses began to beat in quicker tempo, while darker volutes of smoke rolled in dense volume from her funnel and streamed away astern, resting low and preserving their individuality as long as visible, like a streak of oxidization on a field of frosted silver.

Passing the engine-room ventilators he heard the telegraph give a single stroke; Mr. Collison had only then recovered from, his astonishment sufficiently to signal to slow down.

A muted echo of the engine-room telegraph was audible then, and the engines took up again their tireless chant.

One heard hurried feet, outcries, a sudden jangle of the engine-room telegraph... "Monsieur! monsieur!"

The words were on her lips when she was thrown off her feet by a frightful shock which stopped the Sybarite dead in full career, before the screw, reversed in obedience to the telegraph, could grip the water and lessen her momentum.

"Mademoiselle, it is I; rest easy; we can soon go on; a train passes in two hours, and we can telegraph to Heidelberg that they may not fear for you." "Oh, Hoffman, how kind of you to stop for me!

Post and Telegraph Office, Theatre, Clubs, &c. Guide.

I shall telegraph to everybody.

Do we say   telegram   or  telegraph