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am telegraphing

  • present progressive
    of telegraph (1st person singular).
    telegraph
    noun
    an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.

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"Dear Morris, "I am delighted that your mother and you can dine to-morrow, and I am telegraphing first thing in the morning to see if Miss Madge will make our fourth.

From The Blotting Book by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

These are matters on which I presume Admiral has reported to Admiralty, but I am telegraphing to him to make sure as he is away to-day at Mudros.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume I by Sir Ian Hamilton

"I am telegraphing to Madame de Clericy to return home."

From Dross by Henry Seton Merriman