communication cord
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"If you don't go back to the other end of the carriage at once I'll pull the communication cord and stop the train."
From A Master of Deception by Marsh, Richard
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 Woolf, Virginia
"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
"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 Fleming, Oliver
At the moment which I had calculated to be most auspicious I suddenly threw off the semblance of boredom, rose up, lurched across the carriage and pulled the communication cord.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various
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