communication cord
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"So perhaps it'd be just as well for me not to have thought of the communication cord, eh?"
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
"Well," said the meek voice, "the cost of pulling a communication cord is I still five pounds, and you can have just as good a pull as ever."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 by Various
The communication cord had been pulled, and we stopped with a jerk.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
She would throw the scent-bottle with her right hand, she decided, and tug the communication cord with her left.
From Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
He was making a mental calculation as to what height above the carriage window the communication cord might be.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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