166 Verbs to Use for the Word wires

Some one has cut the wires.

" "Or would it not be best to send an urgent wire to the address where I always write?

Blowitz was there, of coursewas always everywhere in moments of crisis, talking a great deal, and letting it be understood that he had pulled a great many wires all those last weeks.

After a pause he got the wire: "Send me a dozen and a halfno, nineteenAmerican Beauty roses on today's train, without fail.

The window could be well protected in case of need, having latticed wooden blinds inside, and heavy shutters shod with iron on the outer wall, and there were besides strong bolts and sockets from which ran certain wires whose use I did not know.

The Persian government reports show that a number of Russian soldiers, claiming to be stringing a telephone wire, climbed upon the roof of the Persian police headquarters about ten o'clock at night on December 20th.

"The other night," writes a third, "I was out laying telephone wires in a graveyard.

Not only was electricity brought from the paper mill, but a telegraph wire was run from Chazy Junction to Bob West's former storage shed and a telephone gang came along and placed a private wire, with long-distance connections, in the new newspaper office.

He then shows a message which could be sent by this means, interspersed with ideas for insulating the wires in tubes or pipes.

His troops had been confined to trench warfare for months, digging and sitting in trenches, putting out wire, going out on listening patrols, sniping and doing all the drudgery in the lines of earthworks.

He received a wire, and had to leave immediately.

a very heavy squall which occurred in the gale of December 2 of last year, the stay of the lofty iron pillar outside of the Park Rails, which carried our telegraph wires, gave way, and the pillar and the whole system of wires fell.""An

I was some forty miles from the spot at which my despatch could be censored and passed over land wire and cable to London, when a vivid lightning flash warned me that the elements were in forbidding mood and that I had misread the obvious signal of the natives' homeward movement.

" "Hold the wire and I'll find out," said Uncle John.

I guess it is all settled now, 'cause the living skeleton and the fat woman have got permission to get married, the bearded lady is sweet on pa, and a girl has just joined the show, who walks a wire, and she says I am about the sweetest thing that ever came down the pike, and I guess this show business is all right, all right.

You saw his wire, didn't you?

But later, when they followed up the wires which Blake had severed, which had run from the brass-bound box to a point near the spillway of the dam, it was found that only a small charge of dynamite had been buried therea charge so small that it could not possibly have done more than very slight damage to the structure.

Now if I could only find out what it is!that would be something new in science,a discovery worth knowing,to be able to hear or feel the purport of a telegraphic message, simply by touching the wire along which it runs!

"They want him for embezzlement and will soon get on his trail, but the wash-out's broke the wires and I reckon he'll cross the frontier ahead.

After that, we stretched thin piano wire across the cellar, about nine inches from the floor, at such a height that it should catch anything moving about in the dark.

He found Joe busy mending a broken wire that ran from the battery to the flashlight powder chamber.

Put a stick of dynamite under some sugar, attached a battery wire to it, an' when she was licking up the sugar touched it off.

That they did care for her, that they did want her, and that they had set the telegraphic wires all over the country to hunt for her and bring her back to them.

A great shell had cut the minaret in half and had left exposed telephone wires leading direct to army headquarters and to the Turkish gunners' fire control station.

It would seem, from a voluminous correspondence, that Professor Fisher was responsible for the failure of the underground system, inasmuch as he did not properly test the wires after they had been inserted in the lead pipe.

166 Verbs to Use for the Word  wires