Ambassadors

Examples

• 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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