telegraph pole

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From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020

Notices stuck to a telegraph pole advertised an upcoming raffle, a talk about Lord Byron, and the campaign to save the school, which is a hundred and eighteen years old.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2018

On a recent stag weekend in Hamburg, Kit witnessed a stag – dressed in a hamburger outfit – climbing a telegraph pole.

From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2018

Weaver birds fly around their nest situated on a telegraph pole by a highway near Prieska in South Africa's Northern Cape province July 26, 2000.

From Newsweek • Apr. 5, 2015

At the bottom of the hill it charged across the road, knocking over a telegraph pole and flattening two parked automobiles as it went by.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl