Literary notes about wired (AI summary)
The word "wired" in literature serves as a multifaceted term that conveys both literal and figurative meanings. In many narratives it denotes the transmission of urgent communications—often via telegraph—as characters send messages that drive plot and reveal critical information ([1], [2], [3], [4]). At times, it refers to physical configurations, such as electrical circuits or even cases suspended by wires, highlighting a modern or technical aspect within the setting ([5], [6], [7]). The term can also evoke a sense of heightened tension or readiness, suggesting that both emotions and events are energetically connected, as when plans or moods are “wired” directly into the unfolding action ([8], [9]).
- He had checked Bareilly, so I wired your friend Dwarka there.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Finally he determined upon his course of action and wired Mr. Matsukata, "After a thousand different thoughts now one fixed purpose."
— from The Call of the World; or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity by William E. (William Ellison) Doughty - “I wired to Cambridge to learn if anything had been heard of him there.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Holmes had already wired to Forbes, and we found him waiting to receive us—a small, foxy man with a sharp but by no means amiable expression.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - The walls were hung with wired cases, apparently containing books.
— from LavengroThe Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow - Each wired circuit would have to be removed, duplicated, and replaced.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - I now have a wired and a wireless LAN (local area network) in my home.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - But how many harps and pianos Wired I and tightened and disentangled for you, Making them sweet again—with tuning fork or without?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters - And then he added mysteriously, "I only came down here because I was urgently wired for by some one who—well, I couldn't refuse."
— from Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston