Courier

Examples

• The _Times_ newspaper, which greatly exceeds the size of the _Courier_, is now printed by a machine at the rate of 13,000 an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Prentice, then editor of the Courier-Journal, and Mr. Tyler, of the Associated Press. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They had arrived with the carriage and courier at the Erbprinz Hotel, the best of the town, and the whole party dined at the table d'hote. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Courier in the rumble was not altogether comfortable in his mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The author remembers to have seen the _Globe_ newspaper printed by an old wooden press in 1820; and, about the same time, the London _Courier_, by a Stanhope press. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nous allons avoir une belle traversee, Monsieur George, said the courier with a grin, as he lifted his gold-laced cap. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I remained at Burnsville with a detachment of about 900 men from Ord's command and communicated with my two wings by courier. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The _Stilbro' Courier_ had given every particular, with amplifications. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The courier had told him that only Mrs. Casaubon was at home, but he said he was a relation of Mr. Casaubon's: would she see him? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But we'se hev a column and a half i' th' _Stilbro' Courier_ ower this job, as it is, I dare say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Advance couriers must have told of his coming. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They were brought into these foreign towns in the custody of couriers and local followers, just as the debtors had been brought into the prison. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When Morocco is in a state of war, Arab couriers carry letters through the country and charge a liberal postage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The armies and couriers of Marcus Aurelius drudged along the roads exactly as the armies of Scipio Africanus had done three centuries before them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From world to world His couriers fly, Thought-winged and shod with fire; The angel of His stormy sky Rides down the sunken wire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Arnold