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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
heliograph .
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Examples
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She snorted, started toward the house again, then paused as a point of light heliographed in our direction from the south.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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The brass casings of the cartridges looped into the gun belts twinkled and flashed and heliographed in the sun.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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At the same time he heliographed to Major Bird to march from Frederickstadt and join him _en route_, which was done.
The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland Cecil Francis Romer
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The wireless at Bray Park, the central station near Willesden, whence the reports were heliographed -- it was an amazingly complete chain.
The Boy Scout Aviators George Durston
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It was now a little past noon, and I was becoming anxious about the party left on the conical hill, as Macpherson had heliographed that very large bodies of Afghans were moving northwards from Indiki, with the intention, apparently, of effecting a junction with the tribesmen who were occupying the hills in the Kohistan direction.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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On reaching the latter place, Massy heliographed to me that he had found it deserted, the magazine blown up, and seventy-five guns [5] abandoned inside the enclosure, and that the enemy were now occupying a ridge [6] which seemed to him to be
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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News was heliographed into Wad Hamid headquarters before we left that the gunboats had seized Royan Island and established a post there, the natives not disputing possession.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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I heliographed to Macpherson to inquire the direction in which the enemy were moving, and whether their numbers were still increasing.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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Nawagai of the confidence of the Government, and of their determination to "protect" him from all enemies; heliographed to General Elles that he would meet him at Nawagai; entrenched his camp and waited.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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At their suggestion a message was heliographed up to the
The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill 1919
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