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  • She asked herself with what authority a woman who had made her life miserable because of an innocent letter served as the emissary of love, but she did not dare to speak of it.†   (source)
  • She looked up at the ravens and imagined they were his emissaries.†   (source)
  • Having you act as my emissary is our only hope of influencing the succession of the dwarves.†   (source)
  • We march into the amphitheater to the applause of family, students, city officials, the Emperor's emissaries, and an honor guard of nearly two hundred legionnaires.†   (source)
  • A pack of gaunt hounds quarrelled under the floor, and the sick woman stirred uneasily on her bed and expressed a wish that her emissaries would return.†   (source)
  • Some big shots, like Pop, would send an emissary to see if that stall was free or else dibs them a place in the waiting line.†   (source)
  • First I need to know what the emissaries from Sounis said.†   (source)
  • Each day he was in Skardu, emissaries from Baltistan's hundreds of remote villages sought him out with petitions for new projects, now that he had the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs' stamp of approval.†   (source)
  • ' "Saruman," I said, "I have heard speeches of this kind before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant.†   (source)
  • "Be ye royalty types, or officious emissaries?" the badger asked.†   (source)
  • The groom's emissaries arrived at the threshold.†   (source)
  • Had Mia sent her as some sort of an emissary?†   (source)
  • The team had become emissaries.†   (source)
  • Chief among them the Emissary to the Presger.†   (source)
  • Whoever, and whatsoever, and we must not rule out the possibility of an emissary direct from above-oh, yes!†   (source)
  • When, in September, an emissary from the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Richard Penn, arrived in London with an "Olive Branch Petition" in hand, expressing loyalty to the Crown and requesting, in effect, that the King find a way to reconciliation, George III refused to have anything to do with it.†   (source)
  • Because whoever meets with Carlos's emissaries has to be so high up, so authentic, that the Jackal has no choice but to accept him or them.†   (source)
  • They're arguing over whether Angela Davis, who's on trial in California for murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, is one of El Líder's agents or a direct emissary from Moscow.†   (source)
  • The queen could find no equal among her herds and, consumed by jealousy, sent her emissaries to Ulster, where she sought Finnenbach's rival, the Brown Bull of Cooley.†   (source)
  • And here we have the honorable Tycho Nestoris, an emissary of the Iron Bank of Braavos, come to treat with His Grace King Stannis.†   (source)
  • There was a faint movement of astonishment in Rearden's face, barely above the line of indifference: he had not expected that particular emissary.†   (source)
  • You were the final gift of the living to their emissary to the land of the ancestors, and perhaps your warmth and youth brought new insights of this world to me and turned my feet leaden on this side of the abyss.†   (source)
  • In another time and place he could have been a dusty cowboy striding into town, or a military emissary carrying vital documents.†   (source)
  • I came in peace from my lord Amon-Ra as an emissary to Wise Odin.†   (source)
  • "Kessell has demanded an emissary," he said, "and so we must deliver one."†   (source)
  • They know me there, and an emissary came to see me on behalf of the shadow cabinet, to offer me the post of Minister of Justice in the future government.†   (source)
  • John Quincy Adams—until his death at eighty in the Capitol—held more important offices and participated in more important events than anyone in the history of our nation, as Minister to the Hague, Emissary to England, Minister to Prussia, State Senator, United States Senator, Minister to Russia, Head of the American Mission to negotiate peace with England, Minister to England, Secretary of State, President of the United States and member of the House of Representatives.†   (source)
  • Whenever Nwoye's mother sang this song he felt carried away to the distant scene in the sky where Vulture, Earth's emissary, sang for mercy.   (source)
    emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
  • Undoubtedly he was some emissary of the Iron Heel, but he has escaped detection.   (source)
  • Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle.   (source)
  • If film noir males are destroyed or nearly destroyed by fate, the noir woman is fate's emissary...   (source)
  • was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary   (source)
  • The North Koreans want a high-powered U.S. emissary for the meeting.
  • The president's emissary says she aims to restart peace talks by the end of July.
    emissary = representative
  • As much as we honor these emissaries, however, this evening is not about them.†   (source)
  • "Not directly," said the domovoi wistfully "But his senior emissaries, certainly."†   (source)
  • The small goldsmith shop was filled with emissaries.†   (source)
  • The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action.†   (source)
  • If they turn out to be divine emissaries, it's best to give them food and wine and the use of a woman if required, to listen respectfully to their messages, and then to let them go on their way.†   (source)
  • But Father skipped over all that and went straight to the dire consequences: "The emissaries of the Lord smote the sinners, who had come heedless to the sight of God, heedless in their nakedness.†   (source)
  • One such evening Burnham led a tour of the fair aboard an electric launch for a group that included John Root's widow, Dora, and a number of foreign emissaries.†   (source)
  • Ofelia went to live in her brother's house, and from there she sent all kinds of petitions with distinguished emissaries.†   (source)
  • "He paused for breath and began again, swaying ever so faintly as he sang out: "The Lord rideth in the person of His angels of mercy, His emissaries of holiness into the cities on the plain, where Lot dwelled amongst the sinners!†   (source)
  • Emissaries must have thicker skins.†   (source)
  • He sat in a chair between his political advisers and, wrapped in his woolen blanket, he listened in silence to the brief proposals of the emissaries.†   (source)
  • Day by day, he saw her stature grow among the emissaries, functionaries, nobles, and commoners with whom she dealt.†   (source)
  • But only the four great races were allowed to send formal emissaries to the Council: the Trolls, the Goblins, the Elves, and the Dwarves.†   (source)
  • Fadawar, a tall, high-nosed, black-skinned man, spoke with the same heavy emphasis and altered vowels Nasuada remembered hearing during her childhood in Farthen Dur, when emissaries from her father's tribe would arrive and she would sit on Ajihad's lap and doze while they talked and smoked cardus weed.†   (source)
  • That being so, Adams continued, it was his plan to send two emissaries to join Pinckney, making it a bipartisan three-man commission, which by its "dignity" ought to satisfy France, and by its geographical and political balance satisfy both parties and all parts of the country.†   (source)
  • Beyond this lay the ancestral temple, which was for hosting emissaries and government officials and for festive occasions such as weddings.†   (source)
  • "Second," continued Vilyak, barreling through the woman's protests, which continued until her neighbors hushed her, "that I take possession of the Founder's Ring and resume leadership as Director, invested with all necessary authority to command and negotiate on Rowan's behalf "And finally," he concluded, "that we meet with the witches, the Workshop, and Astaroth's emissaries to negotiate an agreement that is satisfactory to all.†   (source)
  • And for Osama Bin Laden and his apocalyptic emissaries, the nineteen mostly Saudi men about to board American airliners carrying box-cutters, Massoud's death meant that the one leader most capable of uniting northern Afghanistan's warlords around the American military aid sure to pour in was toppled, like the towers about to fall half a world away.†   (source)
  • We are neither royalty nor emissaries.†   (source)
  • When my lord's emissaries sought him in his homeland, they say that bones littered the whole of the forest.†   (source)
  • Then he signed the declaration and gave the sheets of paper to the emissaries, saying to them: "Here an your papers, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • "Not yet," said Tummeler, "as a number of designates such as y'rselves are only just arrived, and the Council at Paralon asked ol' Tummeler to escort any last-minute princely sorts and emissaries as may be expectin' to attend."†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo was tempted to accept it, thinking that it was a medal of solid gold, but Petra Cotes convinced him that it was not proper when the emissaries already had some proclamations and speeches ready for the ceremony.†   (source)
  • The indolence of the people was in contrast to the voracity of oblivion, which little by little was undermining memories in a pitiless way, to such an extreme that at that time, on another anniversary of the Treaty of Neerlandia, some emissaries from the president of the republic arrived in Macondo to award at last the decoration rejected several times by Colonel Aureliano Buendia, and they spent a whole afternoon looking for someone who could tell them where they could find one of his…†   (source)
  • The peace emissary we sent was rebuffed.†   (source)
  • Please inform the minister's residence that his emissary from Kowloon is here.'†   (source)
  • Here also, at my invitation, is Astaroth's emissary, Lord Aamon.†   (source)
  • Who better than the monseigneur's emissary?†   (source)
  • He has demanded our emissary — the lights on the tower have started again!†   (source)
  • "The second emissary was more polite," the queen continued, settling back against my cushions.†   (source)
  • An explosion followed, blowing the emissary's head away.†   (source)
  • Prusias's emissary will demand his answer.†   (source)
  • An emissary from the queen of Attolia, a few from Sounis—well, four from Sounis.†   (source)
  • "That is just what Prusias said when I urged him to send a fairer emissary," laughed the demon.†   (source)
  • Kessell studied the emissary for quite a while.†   (source)
  • Know thy enemy," he whispered, staring at an intaglio print of Astaroth's emissary, Prusias.†   (source)
  • "Naturally," the emissary answered, "I have brought nothing of the sort.†   (source)
  • Toward the first of April a special emissary identified himself to Colonel Gerineldo Marquez.†   (source)
  • The emissary returned with the news that Aureliano Amador was safe.†   (source)
  • Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary.†   (source)
  • The city, especially its frappe set, had focused its interest on another event unfolding in Jackson Park—the first visit by Spain's official emissary to the fair, the Infanta Eulalia, the youngest sister of Spain's dead King Alfonso XII and daughter of exiled Queen Isabel II.†   (source)
  • The only emissary of the Clave she'd known so far was the Inquisitor, who hadn't exactly been pleasant to be around.†   (source)
  • Another frequent visitor, David Hartley, member of Parliament, old friend of Franklin's and an emissary from Lord North, struck Adams as a conceited dandy and almost certainly a spy.†   (source)
  • And I will ask Hrothgar to send an emissary to Ceris to inform the elves of the situation so that they are forewarned, if nothing else.†   (source)
  • The Brooklyn Dodgers had loaned their special emissary, Emmett Kelly the Clown, to entertain the crowd.†   (source)
  • Washington decided to receive the young emissary, and in a manner which, if not cold, was strictly formal.†   (source)
  • He envisioned the Supreme Council's ruling tucked into an emissary's saddlebags as he rode from Iran into Afghanistan, pictured a small mountain pony skirting the heavily mined Shomali Plain, before plodding up the high passes of the Hindu Kush and crossing into Pakistan.†   (source)
  • We still couldn't see the band or the procession, but together we watched as an emissary walked down our alleyway, stopped at our threshold, and presented my father with a letter on red paper declaring that my new family had come for me.†   (source)
  • Then, acting as Nasuada's emissary, Eragon congratulated Orik on behalf of Nasuada and the Varden and promised him the Varden's friendship.†   (source)
  • The emissary approached the minister.†   (source)
  • " BY ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC FORM, no emissary ever proclaimed his mission —his "public character"—until the government to which he was accredited was ready to receive him.†   (source)
  • You will deliver an emissary unto me tomorrow, an emissary to bear the news of your unconditional surrender!†   (source)
  • The emissary was in a great hurry.†   (source)
  • The emissary rushed through the front room filled with red lacquered furniture to an archway beyond which was a walled garden complete with four connecting lily ponds subtly lit with yellow lights beneath the water.†   (source)
  • IN LATE SEPTEMBER, John Jay dispatched an urgent note to John Adams from Paris to report that the British emissary Richard Oswald had received a formal commission to treat with the United States on the matter of peace.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the Comte de Vergennes, through an emissary, had been letting the government in London know confidentially of his opposition to most of the American claims, and to his ambassador in Philadelphia he had written that France does not feel obliged to "sustain the pretentious ambitions" of the United States concerning either boundaries or fisheries.†   (source)
  • The emissary brought a highly confidential order from Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who was not in agreement with the terms of the armistice.†   (source)
  • The whole party would doubtless have perished but for the customary meeting with our emissaries.†   (source)
  • An early voyager among the Lapps has left a vivid description of the weird performance of one of these strange emissaries into the kingdoms of the dead. z Since the yonder world is a place of everlasting night, the ceremonial of the shaman has to take place after dark.†   (source)
  • Caution is definitely required when one is dealing with emissaries.†   (source)
  • But it seems that he has decided not to send his emissaries, that 'he will start himself to-morrow.'†   (source)
  • My brother met some emissaries of the cardinal in the uniform of Musketeers.†   (source)
  • All these places are given as the point where this meddlesome Englishman has bidden the traitor de Tournay and others to meet his emissaries.†   (source)
  • If Sherif Ali's emissaries had been possessed—as Jim remarked—of a pennyworth of spunk, this was the time to make a rush.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, the Church's love of innovation had consisted of Inquisitions, whose task was to throttle all life-affirming ideas, to suffocate them in the smoke of the stake: but nowadays she was sending out her emissaries to announce that she was all (or upending things, that her goal was to replace freedom, education, and democracy with dictatorship of the mob and barbarism.†   (source)
  • These were the emissaries with whom the world he had renounced was pursuing him in his retreat—white men from "out there" where he did not think himself good enough to live.†   (source)
  • He would be tracked by Chauvelin's emissaries, followed until he reached that mysterious hut where the fugitives were waiting for him, and there the trap would be closed on him and on them.†   (source)
  • Sherif Ali's emissaries had been seen in the market-place the day before, strutting about haughtily in white cloaks, and boasting of the Rajah's friendship for their master.†   (source)
  • Armand St. Just, the Comte de Tournay and other fugitive royalists were to have met the Scarlet Pimpernel—or rather, as it had been originally arranged, two of his emissaries—on this day, the 2nd of October, at a place evidently known to the league, and vaguely alluded to as the "Pere Blanchard's hut."†   (source)
  • When it was supposed that Dr. Flint's emissaries had lost track of me, and given up the pursuit for the present, I returned to New York.†   (source)
  • "Oh dear, yes, sir; the abbe's dungeon was forty or fifty feet distant from that of one of Bonaparte's emissaries,—one of those who had contributed the most to the return of the usurper in 1815,—a very resolute and very dangerous man."†   (source)
  • Here were the emissaries of the dread Power of the North, very possibly as great in their own land as Mahbub or Colonel Creighton, suddenly smitten helpless.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the hall, opposite the great door, a platform of gold brocade, placed against the wall, a special entrance to which had been effected through a window in the corridor of the gold chamber, had been erected for the Flemish emissaries and the other great personages invited to the presentation of the mystery play.†   (source)
  • Unable to make an entry into her house in Park Lane, her affectionate nephew and niece had followed her to Brighton, where they had emissaries continually planted at her door.†   (source)
  • One traveller, the hound, being an old dog and fond of its ease, returned; but neither Cathy, nor the pony, nor the two pointers were visible in any direction: I despatched emissaries down this path, and that path, and at last went wandering in search of her myself.†   (source)
  • Arrived in a mouldering reception-room, where the faded hangings, of a sad sea-green, had worn and withered until they looked as if they might have claimed kindred with the waifs of seaweed drifting under the windows, or clinging to the walls and weeping for their imprisoned relations, Miss Fanny despatched emissaries for her father and brother.†   (source)
  • As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.†   (source)
  • For, all things moved so fast, and decree followed decree with that fierce precipitation, that now upon the third night of the autumn month of September, patriot emissaries of the law were in possession of Monseigneur's house, and had marked it with the tri-colour, and were drinking brandy in its state apartments.†   (source)
  • This indefatigable pursuer of truth (having given strict orders that the door was to be denied to all emissaries or letters from Rawdon), took Miss Crawley's carriage, and drove to her old friend Miss Pinkerton, at Minerva House, Chiswick Mall, to whom she announced the dreadful intelligence of Captain Rawdon's seduction by Miss Sharp, and from whom she got sundry strange particulars regarding the ex-governess's birth and early history.†   (source)
  • If the emissaries of the cardinal arrive, he will take no notice; if it is Monsieur d'Artagnan and his friends, he will bring them to us."†   (source)
  • BOOK NINE A Visit of Emissaries So Trojans kept their watch that night.†   (source)
  • Each of the emissaries took up a double-handed cup and poured libation by the shipways.†   (source)
  • Come, we'll dispatch our chosen emissaries to his quarters as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • Now the emissaries arrived at Agamemnon's lodge.†   (source)
  • Return, then, emissaries, deliver my answer to the Akhaian peers— it is the senior officers privilege— and let them plan some other way, and better, to save their ships and save the Akhaian army.†   (source)
  • He came back to Santa Fé to recuperate from the illnesses and accidents which consistently punctuated his way; came with the Papal Emissary when Bishop Latour was made Archbishop; but his working life was spent among bleak mountains and comfortless mining camps, looking after lost sheep.†   (source)
  • From the first the son returns as emissary, but from the second, with the knowledge that "I and the father are one."†   (source)
  • If the powers have blessed the hero, he now sets forth under their protection (emissary); if not, he flees and is pursued (transformation flight, obstacle flight).†   (source)
  • Silver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired again, leaving us together in the dark.†   (source)
  • Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle.†   (source)
  • "If you're an emissary you're an emissary."†   (source)
  • 'He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else.†   (source)
  • There are stories going about him as a quill-driving alien, a foreign emissary, and what not.†   (source)
  • "Providence still," murmured he; "now only am I fully convinced of being the emissary of God!"†   (source)
  • "I know the sort," said Mr. Hawley; "some emissary.†   (source)
  • "Yes," he said, "their emissary came to ask me if you had so much money with me.†   (source)
  • News!" cried the emissary of Major Dobbin.†   (source)
  • "— "The emissary?†   (source)
  • But M. le Commissaire de Police Mifroid would not have been quite so satisfied with himself if he had known that the rush of his rapid emissary was stopped at the entrance to the very first corridor.†   (source)
  • There was no mistaking this and the mysterious emissary decamped disappearing in the direction of the main-mast in the shadow of the booms.†   (source)
  • He seemed to feel that it was necessary for Clyde to purge his soul to him—or some one like him—a material and yet spiritual emissary of God.†   (source)
  • And thus his suspense as to Sue's welfare, and the possible marriage, moved him to dispatch for intelligence the last emissary he would have thought of choosing deliberately.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the fact that despite her seeming recent success she had really compromised herself in such a way that unless through marriage with Clyde she was able to readjust herself to the moral level which her parents understood and approved, she, instead of being the emissary of a slowly and modestly improving social condition for all, might be looked upon as one who had reduced it to a lower level still—its destroyer—was sufficient to depress and reduce her even more.†   (source)
  • Shrewd ones may also think it but natural in Billy to set about sounding some of the other impressed men of the ship in order to discover what basis, if any, there was for the emissary's obscure suggestions as to plotting disaffection aboard.†   (source)
  • And what sort of emissary are you?†   (source)
  • "I'm extremely sorry, sir," said this emissary, "that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank.†   (source)
  • And perhaps, as she now contended, if only some powerful and righteous emissary of God would visit Clyde and through the force of his faith and God's word make him see—which she was sure he did not yet, and which she in her troubled state, and because she was his mother, could not make him,—the blackness and terror of his sin with Robertar as it related to his immortal soul here and hereafter,—then in gratitude to, reverence and faith in God, would be washed away, all his iniquity,…†   (source)
  • The emissary," Madame Olenska rejoined, still smiling, "might, for all I care, have left already; but he has insisted on waiting till this evening …. in case …. on the chance …."†   (source)
  • It retains traces of its fecund secret; nor can there be any doubt that Freemasonry has its hand in world politics, just as there is more to our charming Herr Settembrini than the man himself— standing behind him are powers, whose kin and emissary he is.†   (source)
  • Emissary?†   (source)
  • It was barely half-past ten; but what if the emissary, impatient for her reply, and not knowing how else to employ his time, were already seated among the travellers with cooling drinks at their elbows of whom Archer had caught a glimpse as she went in?†   (source)
  • He did not care to be seen watch in hand within view of the hotel, and his unaided reckoning of the lapse of time led him to conclude that, if Madame Olenska was so long in reappearing, it could only be because she had met the emissary and been waylaid by him.†   (source)
  • "Well!" said that good-natured emissary, after a full half-hour of bootless attempts to bring him round to the question.†   (source)
  • At last I ran away myself, whenever I saw an emissary of the police approaching with some new intelligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported.†   (source)
  • It was that of Eustacia's emissary.†   (source)
  • Another conclusion which might be of importance was beginning to formulate itself in the shrewd mind of the emissary; between Messala and the son of the duumvir there was a connection of some kind.†   (source)
  • Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed.†   (source)
  • To sum up the matter, it grew to be a widely diffused opinion that the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, in all ages of the Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.†   (source)
  • This pretended d'Artagnan—was he not an emissary of the cardinal, whom the cardinal sought to introduce into Treville's house, to place near him, to win his confidence, and afterward to ruin him as had been done in a thousand other instances?†   (source)
  • Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.†   (source)
  • Barsad," he went on, in the tone of one who really was looking over a hand at cards: "Sheep of the prisons, emissary of Republican committees, now turnkey, now prisoner, always spy and secret informer, so much the more valuable here for being English that an Englishman is less open to suspicion of subornation in those characters than a Frenchman, represents himself to his employers under a false name.†   (source)
  • Mr. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr. Brooke's own family.†   (source)
  • Brunehilde and Fredegonde were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, when man was learning to control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness.†   (source)
  • The man who, with so much to avenge, could so calmly put such an opportunity aside must be confident of his future or have ready some better design, and Malluch's interest changed with the thought; it ceased to be that of an emissary in duty bound to another.†   (source)
  • And some oddities of Will's, more or less poetical, appeared to support Mr. Keck, the editor of the "Trumpet," in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crack-brained, which accounted for the preternatural quickness and glibness of his speech when he got on to a platform—as he did whenever he had an opportunity, speaking with a facility which cast reflections on solid Englishmen generally.†   (source)
  • She is some emissary of the cardinal; a woman who will draw you into a snare in which you will leave your head.†   (source)
  • He was very well known to the customs officers of the coast; and as there was between these worthies and himself a perpetual battle of wits, he had at first thought that Dantes might be an emissary of these industrious guardians of rights and duties, who perhaps employed this ingenious means of learning some of the secrets of his trade.†   (source)
  • The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne.†   (source)
  • "This matter, in my belief," the Steyne emissary cried, "ought to be buried in the most profound oblivion.†   (source)
  • This is what has happened: My brother, who was coming to my assistance to take me away by force if it were necessary, met with the emissary of the cardinal, who was coming in search of me.†   (source)
  • He winked at Kirsch on his Excellency's arrival, and that emissary, instructed before-hand, went out and superintended an entertainment of cold meats, jellies, and other delicacies, brought in upon trays, and of which Mr. Jos absolutely insisted that his noble guest should partake.†   (source)
  • The cardinal could not drive from his mind the fear he entertained of his terrible emissary—for he comprehended the strange qualities of this woman, sometimes a serpent, sometimes a lion.†   (source)
  • He took the papers, and presented himself here as the emissary of the cardinal, and in an hour or two a carriage will come to take me away by the orders of his Eminence.†   (source)
  • It is he who in an encounter with your Eminence's Guards decided the victory in favor of the king's Musketeers; it is he who gave three desperate wounds to de Wardes, your emissary, and who caused the affair of the diamond studs to fail; it is he who, knowing it was I who had Madame Bonacieux carried off, has sworn my death."†   (source)
  • …which at that time was named a CABAL; when he affirmed that he, the cardinal, was about to unravel the most closely twisted thread of this intrigue; that at the moment of arresting in the very act, with all the proofs about her, the queen's emissary to the exiled duchess, a Musketeer had dared to interrupt the course of justice violently, by falling sword in hand upon the honest men of the law, charged with investigating impartially the whole affair in order to place it before the eyes…†   (source)
  • At his command his emissary, Iris, who runs on the rainy wind, from Ida's range went up to grand Olympos.†   (source)
  • Odysseus, the great tactician, led her to the altar, putting her in her fathers hands, and said: "Khryses, as, Agamemnon's emissary I bring your child to you, and for Apollo a hekatomb in the Danaans' name.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of the meal he gave a preconcerted signal by calling out, "Bring the fruit," upon which his emissaries rushed in and killed the two guests.†   (source)
  • It is well known that the deputies of the United Provinces have, in various instances, been purchased by the emissaries of the neighboring kingdoms.†   (source)
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