Couriers
[kʊəri:əz]
Examples
- 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.
Editor: Zeke