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Telephone conversation   /tˈɛləfˌoʊn kˌɑnvərsˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Telephone conversation

noun
1.
A conversation over the telephone.






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"Telephone conversation" Quotes from Famous Books



... he said to the man in charge of the office, who had been bending over his books and apparently taking not the slightest interest in the telephone conversation. Soames placed twopence, the price of the call, on the ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... A long-distance telephone conversation about six o'clock in the afternoon between two voices usually so even and composed that the little pulse of excitement beating through both as they speak now seems perilous, unnatural. One is Mr. Severance's thin cool speech and the other—most curious, that—seems by every ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... not a word of thanks. I did not expect thanks and I made allowances for the state of mind at the mansion; but that telephone conversation, particularly Mrs. Colton's share in it, cast a gloom over my spirits. I did not care to hear more of Mr. Atwood's yarns and jokes. I went to my own room, but ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... After another brief telephone conversation, the three visited the private room of the judge where, waiving a preliminary hearing, the prisoner was bound over to await the action of the grand jury, and his bail fixed ...
— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx

... House met again, in committee of the whole, the Speaker, of course, was not in the Chair, and Gardener found him in the lobby. Gardener had agreed with me to say nothing of the telephone conversation but he threatened Smith that unless our jury bill was "reported out" by the Judiciary Committee and allowed to come to a vote, he would oppose every House bill in the Senate and talk the session to death. Smith fumed and blustered, but Gardener, with the ...
— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... sergeant needed no further bidding. In a few graphic words he outlined his telephone conversation with Spike Walters. ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen

... was in the act of concluding a long and apparently satisfactory telephone conversation with his agent in Duluth at the moment when the door of his private room opened and ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde



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