Then, by skilfully manipulating the other crank, he can produce from it strains of such mellifluous harmony that the very telegraph-poles will throng around him, as erstwhile did the trees of the forest around ORPHEUS, and tender their services for the transmission of his melting music to all the beautiful places on Earth.

It had all been fought over at least twicerailroad stations and farm buildings burned, bridges dynamited, telegraph-poles cut down.

The stations now were mere board shelters for a commandant and a soldiers' lunch-room; the bridges, timber bridges flung across by the pioneers; and the sawed-off telegraph-poles, spliced between railroad rails to save cutting new ones, were stuck back into the ground like forks.

If he so much as peeps while I'm in reach, I'll shake him till his spine sticks out of his head like a telegraph-pole.

Sawed-Off was the nearest of all the Kingstonians to resembling a telegraph-pole, so he had no real competitors for first base.

If I ever climb a telegraph-pole you can be sure it'll be because I wanted to.

I lay there until there was light enough to distinguish trees and telegraph-poles, and then walked on to Ath.

I then strolled a couple of miles up the road ahead of us under the line of telegraph-poles.

It was still bright sunlight and no spiders were out; in fact, I did not suspect their presence along the line of telegraph-poles, although I ought to have done so, for I continually ran into long strings of tough fine web, which got across my face or hands or rifle barrel.

These were in and under the big white china insulators on the telegraph-poles.

The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixt perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole.

In a space of time that seemed only seconds, I was close to a telegraph-pole; but, brief as the moment had been, a fellow with a lariat tied round his waist was half-way up the post.