Telegram in example sentence

Now, by the merest chance, his wife received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company.

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And the very next time that they might hear anything about the people who had raised them might be a telegram saying, "Your father has passed away."

And he's summoned by his rich uncle, John Carter, to his mansion with a telegram saying, "See me at once."

my mother's tongue is a telegram from her mother decorated with the coqui's of el campo so even when her lips can barely stretch themselves around english, her accent is a stubborn compass always pointing her towards home.

And I've been able, through this wonderful Google and Internet, to find the text of the telegram sent back from President Buchanan to Queen Victoria.

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