Messengers

Examples

• This dispatch was sent in triplicate, by different messengers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I could see messengers running swiftly through the audience, and as they passed the nobles there unsheathed their swords and sprang into the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He left the messengers at the gate, and saw them admitted by the porter. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Through this opening no doubt the Confederate commanders had been able to get messengers under cover of night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The messengers returned alone. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• On both of which errands, quick messengers depart. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We can imagine something of the coming and going of messengers, the issuing of futile orders, the changes of plan, throughout the day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the press itself, and its servitors and messengers, speeding on the wings of electricity, are the children of the inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And _my_ brother, your uncle--poor soul, I trust this will rouse him--messengers must be despatched to fetch them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Poor men always use messengers instead of the post. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is my own conviction that these impressions under which you are smarting are messengers from God to bring you back to the true Church. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Even the winds are his messengers, and they serve him in these hours of darkness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He sent swift messengers to assassinate the old man before he could hear of his son's death! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If he wanted material, he always made it a principle to have it at once, and never hesitated to use special messengers to get it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Messengers and letters were sent freely from one church to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We could dispatch messengers to Adrian, to inform him of our deviation from the original plan. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The nitric acid soon began to combine with the plaster in the room below, which was the public receiving-room for messengers and bookkeepers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That his wicked spirit had somehow sent these messengers to mine, and that now on this stormy night he was as good as his word, and with me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Messengers were sent to that place, and the whole town looked for Stephen to be brought in next day. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The head of one of the regular indoor messengers attached to Tellson's establishment was put through the door, and the word was given: Porter wanted! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The planets, seen t o shift their positions with reference to the other heavenly bodies, were called messengers, or angels. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Typed by Edmund