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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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They'll send emissaries, ambassadors, then lawyers, they'll threaten, they'll penalize, she'll be afraid all the time but she'll hold firm.† (source)emissaries = people sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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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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All in all, being God's sole and abandoned emissary to Kilanga was keeping Our Father very busy.† (source)
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When the Lamp emissaries depart, I feel abandoned and alone, and Nathaniel is doing nothing to lift my spirits.† (source)emissaries = people sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
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Had Mia sent her as some sort of an emissary?† (source)
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But while we were at his house, the two men who claimed they were emissaries of Valentine referred to him as Lucian Graymark.† (source)
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Chief among them the Emissary to the Presger.† (source)
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She looked up at the ravens and imagined they were his emissaries.† (source)
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"The second emissary was more polite," the queen continued, settling back against my cushions.† (source)
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The fast food chains are now imperial fiefdoms, sending their emissaries far and wide.† (source)
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Please inform the minister's residence that his emissary from Kowloon is here.'† (source)
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"Be ye royalty types, or officious emissaries?" the badger asked.† (source)
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