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"Wire" Quotes from Famous Books

... chums were in their room, and saw the full extent of the mischief there. "I guess I may as well wire home to Gridley for the price of my return ticket," ...

— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

... talk. Then the Soviet Foreign Minister took off for Washington at 30 minutes' notice, and another record was made when he spent all day with the President. The Washington columnists began to hint of lessening tension in the cold war, and the wire services carried reports of Russian radio broadcasts talking of a new era of cooperation between ...

— Warning from the Stars • Ron Cocking

... kitchen-garden. The kitchen-garden, with its opportunities of occasional refreshment such as would not add uncomfortably to his present feeling of tightness, was the place for a roam. Five minutes later he was leaning against the wire-netting of the chicken-run, and offering an old cock, who asked most pointedly for bread, a stone. To know how to spend a morning was no easier on a birthday than on ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... about it," Mrs. Bright said, relieved to find something she could do to avert a break-down of her daughter's usually excellent health. "The Mackenzies at Mussoorie will be delighted to have you for a month or two as a paying guest. We have only to wire. And if they have no room, they can secure one for you ...

— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi

... must, of course it must," exclaimed all the boys in a breath. "It's just like burning out a pipe stem with a wire." ...

— Captain Sam - The Boy Scouts of 1814 • George Cary Eggleston

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