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And so when Okonkwo of Umuofia arrived at Mbaino as the proud and imperious emissary of war, he was treated with great honour and respect, and two days later he returned home with a lad of fifteen and a young virgin. (source)emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of a group
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He is the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from. (source)emissary = someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else -- typically one country's interest to another country
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Chief among them the Emissary to the Presger.† (source)
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All in all, being God's sole and abandoned emissary to Kilanga was keeping Our Father very busy.† (source)
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An emissary from the queen of Attolia, a few from Sounis—well, four from Sounis.† (source)
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Parisians on weekend holidays would drink aperitifs here, and before them the occasional emissary from the republic—ministers and vice ministers and abbots and admirals—and in the centuries before them, windburned corsairs: killers, plunderers, raiders, seamen.† (source)
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Glenn Gould at the piano, wild-haired, ebullient, head thrown back, emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!† (source)
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Emissaries were already dropping in to confer with him.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Had Mia sent her as some sort of an emissary?† (source)
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But it seems that he has decided not to send his emissaries, that 'he will start himself to-morrow.'† (source)
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Toward the first of April a special emissary identified himself to Colonel Gerineldo Marquez.† (source)
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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)
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Please inform the minister's residence that his emissary from Kowloon is here.'† (source)
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She looked up at the ravens and imagined they were his emissaries.† (source)
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