Ambassador

Examples

• Her constant visitor was a most sanguine Bonapartist, who had formerly been employed by that emperor as ambassador to the court of Naples. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As has been already seen, he deprived our heroine of the right of transmitting her letters direct by the ambassador's bag. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The only son of the American Ambassador. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She received them as a present from the Spanish ambassador. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His looks frightened the ambassador, who after looking guiltily for a little time at the grief-stricken man, hurried away without another word. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Chinese Ambassador gave it me. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mrs. Bute did not augur much good to the cause from the sending of her son James as an ambassador, and saw him depart in rather a despairing mood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Countess Palmella, wife of the Portuguese Ambassador, in South Audley Street; I have been educating her children. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The German ambassador was shot down in the streets of Peking by a soldier of the imperial guard. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then he despatched an ambassador to Theodosius II to give that monarch, as people say, a piece of his mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was in this hall that Harold returned the magnanimous answer to the ambassador of his rebel brother. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If you had, you will please to give this to the French ambassador, requesting his conveyance of it to the good Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You forget, sir, previous engagements into which Captain Osborne had entered, the ambassador said, gravely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This curt reply brought the Earl in person to Becky's apartment; but he could get no more success than the first ambassador. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is the French ambassador, there is the Russian, there is whoever might sell it to either of these, and there is Lord Holdhurst. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The ambassadors of the other nations asked us to take the matter in hand and hasten the assistant keeper to the plant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He sent ambassadors to Pekin, and a suitable princess was selected, a girl of seventeen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And thus ambassadors would be qualified to treat with foreign princes, or ministers of state, to whose tongues they were utter strangers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Haroun-al-Raschid, says Gibbon, sent Charlemagne by his ambassadors a splendid tent, a water clock, an elephant, and the keys of the Holy Sepulchre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Celebrities of all kinds and distinguished foreigners are numerous--princes, noblemen, ambassadors, artists, litterateurs, scientists, financiers, women. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the mother; yea and that also in good earnest: Peace, son, saith she, I think he be some of the ambassadors' fools. Plato. The Republic.
• Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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