Missionaries

Examples

• It is even related that in the third century B.C. Buddhist missionaries came from the court of King Asoka in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the African. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is right that there should be schoolmasters, and missionaries, and all such men, she replied. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They had a number of brilliant travellers and missionaries at work, but no substance of population behind them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Missionaries tell me that they hear encomiums like that passed upon people every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the seventh century Christian missionaries were converting the English, both in the north from Ireland and in the south from Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Missionaries and evangelists went continually from place to place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The atmosphere is light; you feel none of that moral oppression which hangs over the usual settlement as over a gathering of missionaries. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For a time Japan welcomed European intercourse, and the Christian missionaries made a great number of converts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It would certainly be a greater self-denial to receive heathen among us, than to send missionaries to them; but I think we would do it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The English in America were colonists; the French were explorers, adventurers, agents, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The missionaries who have attempted to convert them to Christianity all complain of this as one of the great difficulties of their mission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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