Which preposition to use with telephone
This morning Edith had telephoned to her friend, Miss Bennett, an old schoolfellow who had nothing to do, and adored commissions.
" "I'll go down and send 'em right up with a boy, and telephone for the car.
One afternoon Edith was talking to the telephone in a voice of agonised entreaty that would have melted the hardest of hearts, but did not seem to have much effect on the Exchange, which, evidently, was not responsive to pathos that day.
She is motoring, and I should have been with her but that I have un gros rhume"she produced a tiny scrap of lace handkerchief and held it to her nose as though in support of her statement"and she rings me on the telephone from different places and tells me the things she does need, and I do send them on to her.
I think it better to telephone at the last minute any particular day for my afternoons because, after all, you never know when the artists one wants are disengaged, does one?
He had been welcomed with deep, quiet gladness by the home folks, and he had talked a little over the telephone with the preacher.
The telephone of foreign design, had two receivers.
Mr. McKeever had about concluded his arrangements for welcoming the state bank examiner when the telephone on his desk buzzed, and on taking up the receiver he heard the ingratiating voice of Alfred Haynes Badger.
" Wingate held the telephone before the half-unconscious man.
"Jack McMillan's feet are giving trouble," was the response of "Central" to the frantic inquiries over the long distance telephone as to the delay, "and 'Scotty's' massaging them with menthalatum.
She felt almost certain that he had known it from the very first, since that afternoon when he had overheard her telephoning about the "fifth book."
In the smaller chambers which surround it are telephones through which addresses delivered in a hundred different quarters are mechanically repeated; so that the residents or temporary visitors can here gather at once all the knowledge that is communicated by any man of note to any audience throughout the planet.
Thus Gray did not have a completed invention, and he later failed to perfect a telephone along the lines described in his caveat.
Telephone by all means.
On September 29th, speech was successfully transmitted by wire from New York City to the radio station at Arlington, Virginia, and thence by wireless telephone across the continent to the radio station at Mare Island Navy-yard, California, where I heard and understood the words of Mr. Theodore N. Vail speaking to me from the telephone on his desk at New York.
We've telephoned over the river" "Never mind the champagne glasses!
It consisted of two crude telephones like the one now before you, connected together by a wire of about one hundred feet in length.
" Cary and Dawson spent the morning at the hotel with a telephone beside them; every few minutes the bell would ring, and a whisper of Hagan's movements steal over the wires into the ears of the spider Dawson.
How little the possibilities of the telephone were then appreciated we may understand from the fact that Gower exchanged his immensely valuable New England rights for the exclusive right to lecture on the telephone throughout the country.
Swing was given exceptional privileges, including a typewriter and telephone near the Foreign Office.