"Long-distance call" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... phoned the base airfield to dispatch a helicopter. He also contacted the nearest Coast Guard station and put through a long-distance call to Navy Headquarters in Washington to request help in searching for the jetmarine. Finally he and Arv headed back to the submarine docks ...
— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton
... as to be present at the ceremony. But Mary Faithful and Trudy Burrows had not availed themselves of the opportunity. Womanly rebellion and heartache suddenly blotted out Mary's emotionless scheme of action. Besides, there was a valid excuse of waiting to catch an important long-distance call. With Trudy it was mere envy causing her to say over and over: "See Gay, the ragged little beggar, walk up the aisle with one of those rich girls and never glance at me—just because he's a Vondeplosshe? And me have to sit beside Nellie Lunk, ...
— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley
... don't know how to mind my own business, and the one luxury I enjoy most of all is regulating other people's affairs." He was still talking, still lecturing his hearers upon the obligations prosperity had put upon them, when he was summoned to the telephone by a long-distance call. He returned in some agitation to announce: "Well, at last I have business of my own ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... to put in a long-distance call. Between the salad and the dessert he was summoned to talk with his ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond |
