telegraph-office

By means of these the eyes, nose, tongue, and skin — all the organs of perception — transmit impressions or sensations to the brain, which acts as a sort of great central telegraph-office, receiving impressions and sending messages to all parts of the body, and putting in motion the muscles necessary to accomplish any movement that may be desired.

Essays 2007

And having found a telegraph-office, he pulled a form to him, and wrote the few words that were all that remained to be said.

Succedaneum 2004

He bored through the edge of the crowd besieging the carriages, and squatted by the bench near the telegraph-office.

Kim 2003

Worth while or not, he went round to the nearest telegraph-office, the big one on the Boulevard, with a directness that almost confessed to a fear of the danger of delay.

The Ambassadors 2003

Saint-Loup, afraid to stir out of doors, even entrusted me with the duty of taking to Incauville, where the nearest telegraph-office was, the messages that he sent every day to his mistress.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Department, inadvertently striking an imposing attitude in the doorway of the telegraph-office in the Executive House, without knowing the

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

The President came into the telegraph-office of the White House, laughing.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Flashes of light, the raising and lowering of a flag, the tapping of a finger, the long and short blasts of a steam whistle, spell out the words of the English language as readily as does the sounder in a telegraph-office.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

'Is that so?' said the Colonel, then turning to me he added, 'Moye has taken the railroad somewhere else; I must get to a telegraph-office at once, to head him off.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

They were kept in a drawer at the White House telegraph-office.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams