So perhaps it'd be just as well for me not to have thought of the communication cord, eh?
Then I made for the handle of the communication cord.
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."
Why didn't you pull the communication cord? asked the station-master, pompously stern.
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The man pulled thecommunicationcord, and we stopped about 100 yards down the line.
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I think that the best thing to rely upon is acommunicationcordwhich can be reached, or, in the case of ladies, special carriages.
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He shirks the dangers and difficulties, and to-night he says that rather than embark on an express train he will pull thecommunicationcord.
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Thecommunicationcordwas pulled.
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They cannot sell acommunicationcord.
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They only realized that they were inside the enemy's location when they found acommunicationcordfrom the enemy sentry's location.
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Later, shorter six-wheeled and bogie compartment carriages were built for secondary services, and communication cords and steam heating were fitted in the early years of the twentieth century.
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