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Telegram in sentence

71 examples of Telegram in a sentence

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.
Sheba Shayne (Pam Grier) receives a telegram informing her that her father may be in trouble.
An artistic telegram on the importance of caring about those around us.
It is no longer seen only as a story of the capital-market-driven integration of the last two decades of the twentieth century, or even of an “early wave of globalization” in the nineteenth century, when the gold standard and the Atlantic telegram seemed to unite the world.
He dictated it aloud, saying, 'I must cheer them up!'But Dolly, on receiving the telegram, only sighed over the rouble it had cost, and understood that it had been sent toward the end of a dinner.
Did you read yesterday's telegram?' asked the doctor, chewing a piece of roll.
Vronsky's valet came in to fetch a receipt for a telegram from Petersburg.
There was nothing odd in his receiving a telegram, but, as if wishing to hide something from her, he told the man that the receipt was in his study and hastily turned to her, saying:'I shall certainly get everything ready to-morrow.'
'From whom was the telegram?' she asked, not listening to him.
What secret can Steve have from me?'Vronsky called back the valet and told him to bring the telegram.
Anna took the telegram with trembling hands and saw exactly what Vronsky had said, but at the end were added the words: 'Little hope, but I'll do everything possible and impossible.''I said yesterday that it is all the same to me when I get the divorce, or even whether I get it at all,' she said, flushing.
And she wrote out a telegram.
'I must speak to you, come at once.'Having sent off the telegram, she went to dress.
'Yes, I will go,' said Anna, recovering and rousing herself; 'and if a telegram comes during my absence, send it to Darya Alexandrovna's...No, I'll come back myself.'
'I had a letter from Steve to-day.''We also had a telegram from him,' replied Anna, looking round for Kitty.
Only when she saw the hall-porter coming out to meet her did she remember that she had sent the note and the telegram.
'I will look,' he replied, and glancing at his desk he took up and handed her the thin square envelope of a telegram.
She did not realize that his telegram was in answer to hers and that he had not yet received her note.
'And what a telegram there is to-day!
They were talking of the latest telegram, confirming the report that for three consecutive days the Turks had been beaten at all points and were in flight, and that a decisive battle was expected next day.
'And what a telegram that was to-day!
Having twice walked past the sacks and mastered himself, he turned calmly to Koznyshev:'You have not seen any telegram later than yesterday's?
CHAPTER VIAS HE HAD NOT KNOWN when he would be able to leave Moscow, Koznyshev had not sent a telegram to his brother asking to be met at the station, and Levin was not at home when, toward noon, Katavasov and Koznyshev, dark as Arabs with the dust in the little tarantas they had hired at the station, drew up at the porch of the Pokrovsk house.
When M. Hennebeau was alone again he was, however, on the point of sending a telegram to the prefect.
Almost immediately, as he was finishing his coffee, a telegram informed him that Madeleine and Crévecoeur were in their turn threatened.
Accordingly, the wags claimed that this slippery rascal had waylaid some passing telegram and was making the most of it.
I fire off a telegram, and that's that."
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