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  • With France and America now joined in common cause, he was no longer the envoy of a friendly nation but of an ally.   (source)
  • In a more enlightened day when witches and familiars were better understood, George would have found his, or rather her, end in a bonfire, because if ever there was a familiar, an envoy of the devil, a consorter with evil spirits, George is it.   (source)
  • An envoy of the Duke of Buckingham, named Montague, was taken, and proof was obtained of a league between the German Empire, Spain, England, and Lorraine.   (source)
  • ...the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."   (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • And there, just left of center, stood the Grand Duke himself: special envoy from the court of the Tsar.†   (source)
  • One was George Bush, who had just finished serving as the first U.S. envoy to China after President Richard Nixon's visit in 1972.†   (source)
  • Matron got the British and Indian embassies to promise to send their envoys in the morning.†   (source)
  • The President had sent an envoy, and the church was packed with more politicians than the Senate lunchroom.†   (source)
  • The only reaction he offered was a surprised grunt when he learned that Lord Naberius had been the envoy.†   (source)
  • Randolph Rowzee Bragg, whose great-grandfather had been a United States Senator, whose grandfather had been chosen by President Wilson to represent his country as Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extrordinary in time of war, whose father had been elected, without opposition, to half a dozen offices, Randolph was beaten five-to-one in the Democratic primaries for nomination to the state legislature.†   (source)
  • We are from a shepherd tribe, and envoys of heaven.†   (source)
  • Some Senators were also required to return regularly to their state legislatures, to report like Venetian envoys on their stewardship at the Capital.†   (source)
  • Lord Walder's sons and envoys fell in around her.   (source)
  • They disliked my choice to become the Queen's envoy and ambassador; it seemed inappropriate.   (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • I won't violate the sanctity of envoys, even if the Empire has.   (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • Envoys to the giants?   (source)
  • People just turned up wanting to see me—government ministers, diplomats, politicians, even an envoy from the archbishop of Canterbury.   (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • While we were there we heard that Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the American envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, was holding a meeting in the Serena Hotel about the conflict, and my father and I managed to get inside.   (source)
  • What's worse, now that I cannot ship anything to the Varden and they dare not send envoys to me, I feared that Lord Risthart would have me clapped in irons and dragged off to the dungeons, since I'm of no further interest to the Empire.   (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on missions
  • There was still no report from the three envoys to France.   (source)
  • The government of France had refused to see the envoys.   (source)
  • In fact, the British envoys were not particularly impressive.   (source)
  • But even were that to happen, what injury could it mean for the United States to have envoys there?   (source)
  • In fact, Vergennes had sent a secret envoy to London to hint to Lord Shelburne that France did not support all the demands of the Americans.   (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • He was particularly funny in an account of an interview he had with the Turkish ambassador [the envoy from Tripoli] in England.   (source)
  • The delegate to the first Continental Congress, preparing to depart for Philadelphia, felt "unalterable anxiety"; the envoy sailing for France wrote of "great diffidence in myself."   (source)
  • At the end of a round of ambassadorial "visits," he stopped to pay his respects to a new member of the diplomatic corps in London, His Excellency Abdrahaman, envoy of the Sultan of Tripoli.   (source)
  • In letters to Congress stressing the need for an envoy to Britain, Adams neither offered recommendations nor said anything of his own feelings, as ardently as he wanted the assignment.   (source)
  • The President, he reported to Jefferson, was sending Chief Justice John Jay as a special envoy to London to "find a way to reconcile our honor with peace."   (source)
  • "Adams, the late envoy from the American states, set off for Portsmouth on Sunday last, to embark for his return," read a small item in the Whitehall Evening Post.   (source)
  • Nor, importantly, was her influence always decisive, as shown by his choice of Elbridge Gerry as an envoy to France and, most importantly, his continued reluctance to declare war.   (source)
  • La Vauguyon, in a letter to Vergennes, reported that everywhere the recognition of America and the reception of Adams as envoy "arouses the liveliest transports of joy."   (source)
  • It was the wish of Congress, as a way to save time, that an authorized American envoy be present in Europe to treat with the ministers of the other powers the moment peace became possible.   (source)
  • Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.   (source)
  • On March 2, Silas Deane was appointed a secret envoy to France to go "in the character of a merchant" to buy clothing and arms, and to appraise the "disposition" of France should the colonies declare independence.   (source)
  • But in notes made in early March, at the time Silas Deane was appointed as a secret envoy, Adams had stressed that there must be no political or military connection with France, only a commercial connection.   (source)
  • On April 1, 1814, at St. Petersburg, John Quincy received word that he had been appointed a peace envoy to negotiate an end to the War of 1812, and was to proceed at once to Ghent in Flanders (Belgium).   (source)
  • Had Adams refrained from insulting the French, had he chosen more suitable envoys, the country would never have been brought to such a pass.   (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on missions
  • Within days Adams appointed two special envoys who, with General Pinckney, would comprise a new commission to proceed to Paris.   (source)
  • Gifts were presented to the American envoys, toasts raised to perpetual peace between the two nations.   (source)
  • "We ought not be surprised if we see our envoys without a treaty," he warned, and this could produce "a critical state of things."   (source)
  • Dated April i 2, two months past, it revealed that while envoys Pinckney and Marshall had left Paris, Elbridge Gerry had remained behind.   (source)
  • SUMMER MARKED the departure of the envoys, Gerry sailing from Boston, Marshall from Philadelphia, where Congress sweltered and fumed trying to wind up business, before "the sick season" came on.   (source)
  • LATE IN THE DAY, August 5, Adams received a dispatch from Pickering containing a letter from Talleyrand dated May 12, assuring that the American envoys would be received with all appropriate respect.   (source)
  • In Paris the three American envoys would be dealing with the extremely wily and charming new French Foreign Minister, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord.   (source)
  • Also, importantly, of the three envoys Gerry was the most sympathetic to France and, with his open admiration of Jefferson, came the closest to making it a bipartisan commission.   (source)
  • It was said that the whole XYZ story was a contrivance of the Federalist warmongers, that the breakdown of negotiations was the fault of the American envoys.   (source)
  • Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.   (source)
  • He wrote of the "continued violences" of the French at sea, of their "unexampled arrogance" in refusing to receive the envoys, and declared such "injury, outrage, and insult" more than a self-respecting nation should ever have to submit to.   (source)
  • "We are yet all in the dark respecting our envoys," Abigail wrote on February 16; and again in another week: "Our envoys have been near six months in Paris but to this hour not a line has been received."   (source)
  • Adams, who had apparently concluded that the envoys were by now safely out of France, released the documents the next day, and with the galleries cleared of visitors and the doors secured, the House went into executive session.   (source)
  • My opinions and determinations in these subjects are so well made up, at least to my satisfaction, that not many hours will be necessary for me to give you my ultimate sentiments concerning the matter or form of the instructions to be given to the envoys.   (source)
  • Whether he would reveal more of the dispatches was something only he could determine, she told Mary; but "clamor who will," great care must be taken that nothing endanger the lives of the envoys who were still in Paris.   (source)
  • "I cannot account for the long delay of our envoys," wrote Marshall, who had begun to have doubts and reminded the President that there must be no sacrifice of American honor to please the First Consul.   (source)
  • After arriving in Paris in the first week of October, the three American envoys were kept waiting for several days and then were granted a meeting with Foreign Minister Talleyrand for all of fifteen minutes.   (source)
  • Convinced that the best hope for the world was the defeat of Britain by France, and that such an outcome was imminent, Jefferson privately advised the French charge d'affaires in Philadelphia, Philippe-Henry-Joseph de Letombe, that the Directory should show the three American envoys all proper courtesy but "then drag out the negotiations at length."   (source)
  • Then began a series of visits from three secret agents representing Talleyrand—Jean Conrad Hottinguer, Pierre Bellamy, and Lucien Hauteval—who were referred to by the Americans in their dispatches as X, Y, and Z. The Foreign Minister was favorably disposed toward the United States, the American envoys were informed, but in order for negotiations to proceed, a douceur (a sweetener) would be necessary, a bribe of some $250,000 for Talleyrand personally.   (source)
  • All eyes turned to the estrade reserved for the Flemish envoys.   (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • At some distance behind them, two men dressed in garments of Flemish style were conversing, who were not sufficiently lost in the shadow to prevent any one who had been present at the performance of Gringoire's mystery from recognizing in them two of the principal Flemish envoys, Guillaume Rym, the sagacious pensioner of Ghent, and Jacques Coppenole, the popular hosier.   (source)
  • This hope was speedily dispelled like his other illusions; silence had indeed, been restored in the audience, after a fashion; but Gringoire had not observed that at the moment when the cardinal gave the order to continue, the gallery was far from full, and that after the Flemish envoys there had arrived new personages forming part of the cortege, whose names and ranks, shouted out in the midst of his dialogue by the intermittent cry of the usher, produced considerable ravages in it.   (source)
  • That afternoon the dour Braavosi envoy turned up for his audience.†   (source)
  • He makes a good envoy between us and the elders of the city.†   (source)
  • He would have made you a poor envoy then.†   (source)
  • "When I came as your envoy, Lord Penrose received me more courteously than most," Davos said.†   (source)
  • It took me this whole time to convince him not to send an envoy just to spite you.†   (source)
  • Grazdan mo Eraz was not the only envoy sent out from the Yellow City.†   (source)
  • She'd even taken him to China with her while Mr. Bush served as the first envoy.†   (source)
  • Her voice was guileless, yet the question plainly made the envoy anxious.†   (source)
  • "You swore I should have safe conduct!" the Yunkish envoy wailed.†   (source)
  • Stark had you as long as I. And now you come as his envoy.†   (source)
  • It would be …. rude not to send an envoy to state our position.†   (source)
  • Davos had come to White Harbor as an envoy, but they had made him a captive.†   (source)
  • Dany felt ill, but she knew she must not let the envoy see it.†   (source)
  • An envoy from the Yellow City is in Volantis even now, hiring swords.†   (source)
  • Your brother Tyrion sent us cutthroats in envoy's garb, under a peace banner."†   (source)
  • "He asked for an envoy, we are sending one," said Slynt.†   (source)
  • I came here an envoy—" "And an envoy you shall leave," Renly said, "but wiser than you came.†   (source)
  • I say you are no lord, no knight, no envoy, only a thief and a spy, a peddler of lies and treasons.†   (source)
  • They keep plucking the same string on the harp, about some envoy that your dragons set on fire.†   (source)
  • It was full of gold coins, just as the envoy said.†   (source)
  • I may be a poor envoy, but I am a good mourner, gods save me.†   (source)
  • Saan, I will require your fastest ships to carry envoys to the Iron Islands and White Harbor.†   (source)
  • Our envoy must speak for king and council and settle the matter quickly.†   (source)
  • It made sense that Stannis would send out other envoys.†   (source)
  • But this I know for a certainty—envoys and pardons will not serve you now, no more than leeches.†   (source)
  • I fear that Ser Loras Tyrell reached Bitterbridge before my envoys, and took that host for his own.†   (source)
  • Inside she had found the heads of her three envoys, pickled.†   (source)
  • "I have no doubt that Lord Walder chose his envoys with care," she replied.†   (source)
  • And Yunkish envoys have been sent to Myr and Volantis to hire more blades.†   (source)
  • She's broken truces, tortured envoys …. her father was mad too.†   (source)
  • Legend has it that a new French envoy, looking about upon his arrival, cried: "My God!†   (source)
  • Custom demanded that the queen begin with the Astapori envoy, a former slave who called himself Lord Ghael, though no one seemed to know what he was lord of.†   (source)
  • Some years later, when Lord Farman of Faircastle grew truculent, Lord Tywin sent an envoy bearing a lute instead of a letter.†   (source)
  • But the envoys from the Francophone countries—Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mauritius, and Madagascar—had an eye to the future, and so the cars with the Corps Diplomatiques plates carried les enfants past the lycée to Loomis Town & Country.†   (source)
  • He made me a poor envoy in any case.†   (source)
  • I have the honor to bring you the Lady Catelyn Stark, sent as envoy by her son Robb, Lord of Winterfell.†   (source)
  • He asks that we send an envoy to him.†   (source)
  • I come as envoy from my son, Robb Stark, the King in the North, to treat with Renly Baratheon, the King in the South.†   (source)
  • Golden marks spilled across the carpets as the envoy stumbled over the chest, shouting curses and beating at his arm until Whitebeard flung a flagon of water over him to douse the flames.†   (source)
  • The envoy that they sent to woo Volantis has already dispatched three free companies to Slaver's Bay.†   (source)
  • He invited King Joffrey to send an envoy to the Iron Islands to fix the borders between their realms and discuss a possible alliance.†   (source)
  • The envoy looked at her unhappily.†   (source)
  • The ravens had not brought King Stannis the allegiance of White Harbor, so His Grace would send an envoy to treat with Lord Manderly in person.†   (source)
  • "A trade envoy from Lys once observed to me that Lord Stannis must love his daughter very well, since he'd erected hundreds of statues of her all along the walls of Dragonstone.†   (source)
  • Much of this Jon had surmised the moment he learned that the Iron Bank had sent an envoy to the Wall.†   (source)
  • I will see the envoy first.†   (source)
  • The envoys from Yunkai arrived as the sun was going down; fifty men on magnificent black horses and one on a great white camel.†   (source)
  • "My lord," he said, "I am an envoy."†   (source)
  • I came here an envoy—†   (source)
  • Their envoy came to us with chests of gold and gems and two hundred slaves, nubile girls and smooth-skinned boys trained in the way of the seven sighs.†   (source)
  • "False envoys," Edmure declared.†   (source)
  • Magister Illyrio can keep you safe while your dragons grow, and send secret envoys across the narrow sea on your behalf, to sound out the high lords for your cause.†   (source)
  • "You've killed envoys?"†   (source)
  • Gerion gave him a gilded dagger with an ivory grip and a sapphire pommel for a wedding gift, and half the envoys who came to court tried to curry favor by presenting His Grace with jewel-encrusted knives and silver inlay swords.†   (source)
  • If he proposes again that I wed King Cleon, I'll throw a slipper at his head, Dany thought, but for once. the Astapori envoy made no mention of a royal marriage.†   (source)
  • New levies have been raised and can be seen drilling outside the city walls, warships are being built, envoys have been sent to New Ghis and Volantis in the west, to make alliances and hire sell-swords.†   (source)
  • …. rode south with Robb Stark, fought beside him at the Whispering Wood and Riverrun, returned to the Iron Islands as his envoy to treat with your own father.†   (source)
  • Dany had sworn that no harm would come to the seven envoys and commanders, though that had not been enough for the Yunkai'i.†   (source)
  • The envoys from Yunkai were all in yellow and filled the box beside the king's, each of them with his slaves and servants.†   (source)
  • They say she is a sorceress who feeds her dragons on the flesh of newborn babes, an oathbreaker who mocks the gods, breaks truces, threatens envoys, and turns on those who have served her loyally.†   (source)
  • A pair of common free-riders would have served if all that Stannis had in mind was scouting, Jon Snow reflected, but knights are better suited to act as messengers or envoys.†   (source)
  • Her envoys had not returned.†   (source)
  • Envoys?†   (source)
  • The envoy had indeed good reason to hang his head.†   (source)
  • The Countess herself actually came to wait upon Mrs. Crawley on the failure of her second envoy.†   (source)
  • "I know you do not like to converse in our language," replied the envoy.†   (source)
  • Presently a special envoy from some distant corner of the Orient, marching with the general body of foreign ambassadors, crosses this bar of sunshine, and we catch our breath, the glory that streams and flashes and palpitates about him is so overpowering; for he is crusted from head to heel with gems, and his slightest movement showers a dancing radiance all around him.†   (source)
  • He stood somewhat isolated: the envoy of the Revolutionary Government of France was not likely to be very popular in England, at a time when the news of the awful September massacres, and of the Reign of Terror and Anarchy, had just begun to filtrate across the Channel.†   (source)
  • The envoy's life proceeded along the tracks laid down for him, and it seemed inconceivable it could have proceeded any other way.†   (source)
  • A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.†   (source)
  • Any landsman observing this gentleman, not conspicuous by his stature and wearing no pronounced insignia, emerging from his cabin to the open deck, and noting the silent deference of the officers retiring to leeward, might have taken him for the King's guest, a civilian aboard the King's-ship, some highly honorable discreet envoy on his way to an important post.†   (source)
  • The seat on his right was occupied, though only temporarily, for just a few days, by a visitor, just as he himself had once been, by a guest, a relative from the flatlands, an envoy from those regions, one might say—in a word, by Hans's uncle James Tienappel.†   (source)
  • Two days later, at around eight in the evening, the same time of day that he himself had arrived—although it was dark now—he hired the same, hard-riding vehicle in which he had seen Joachim off, to take him to the station in Dorf and fetch the envoy from the flatlands who had come to check up on him.†   (source)
  • They sent a duly accredited envoy to treat with these men, who somehow had obtained dominion over people's minds, while the formal rulers had no hold except over their bodies.†   (source)
  • Mrs General, replying to the envoy, as she set down her empty coffee-cup, that she was willing at once to proceed to Mr Dorrit's apartment, and spare him the trouble of coming to her (which, in his gallantry, he had proposed), the envoy threw open the door, and escorted Mrs General to the presence.†   (source)
  • The envoy of Tosti was admitted, when this ample room could scarce contain the crowd of noble Saxon leaders, who were quaffing the blood-red wine around their monarch.†   (source)
  • And he delivered this statement with as much careful precision as if he had been a diplomatic envoy whose words would be attended with results.†   (source)
  • "Excuse me, abbe," said the envoy of the prefect of the police, "but the light tries my eyes very much."†   (source)
  • Some of them were talking (he heard Russian words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy hurrying past them.†   (source)
  • …Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white bull; and though to the noble Iroquois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the purest envoy they could send to the Great Spirit with the annual tidings of their own fidelity; and though directly from the Latin word for white, all Christian priests derive the name of one part of their sacred vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath…†   (source)
  • When the European population begins to approach the limit of the desert inhabited by a savage tribe, the government of the United States usually dispatches envoys to them, who assemble the Indians in a large plain, and having first eaten and drunk with them, accost them in the following manner: "What have you to do in the land of your fathers?†   (source)
  • * and he felt it incumbent on him, as a king and an ally, to confer on state affairs with Alexander's envoy.†   (source)
  • I firmly believe that Mr. Farebrother is attached to her, and meant to make her an offer; but of course, now that Fred has used him as an envoy, there is an end to that better prospect.†   (source)
  • " 'But should Tosti accept these terms,' continued the envoy, 'what lands shall be assigned to his faithful ally, Hardrada, King of Norway?'†   (source)
  • That envoy found her on a little square of carpet, so extremely diminutive in reference to the size of her stone and marble floor that she looked as if she might have had it spread for the trying on of a ready-made pair of shoes; or as if she had come into possession of the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, at a wish, into a palatial saloon with which it had no connection.†   (source)
  • So the next morning, the morning of the third day of the strike, when the members of the Committee of Public Safety appeared again before the magistrate, they found themselves treated with the greatest possible courtesy—in fact, rather as envoys and ambassadors than prisoners.†   (source)
  • There was the Strumpff faction and the Lederlung party, the one supported by our envoy and the other by the French Charge d'Affaires, M. de Macabau.†   (source)
  • When Napoleon, having finished speaking, looked inquiringly at the Russian envoy, Balashev began a speech he had prepared long before: "Sire!†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he accounted for it even while he was shaking hands, by saying, "I come as an envoy, Mrs. Garth: I have something to say to you and Garth on behalf of Fred Vincy.†   (source)
  • It was illuminated by lamps with ground-glass shades which gave only a feeble light, as if out of consideration for the envoy's weak sight.†   (source)
  • "The baffled envoy," continued Cedric, pursuing with animation his tale, though it interested not the listener, "retreated, to carry to Tosti and his ally the ominous answer of his injured brother.†   (source)
  • Now is there civil war within the soul: Resolve is thrust from off the sacred throne By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizier Makes humble compact, plays the supple part Of envoy and deft-tongued apologist For hungry rebels.†   (source)
  • "But," said the envoy, "you do not go about it in the right way to kill him, if I understand you correctly."†   (source)
  • He went to a ball at the hotel of the Bavarian envoy, the Count de Springbock-Hohenlaufen, with his head shaved and dressed as a Capuchin friar.†   (source)
  • Napoleon did not notice this expression; he treated Balashev not as an envoy from his enemy, but as a man now fully devoted to him and who must rejoice at his former master's humiliation.†   (source)
  • "The envoy of Tosti," he said, "moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold.†   (source)
  • Thinking he could have been received in such a manner only because Davout did not know that he was adjutant general to the Emperor Alexander and even his envoy to Napoleon, Balashev hastened to inform him of his rank and mission.†   (source)
  • The French envoy got both.†   (source)
  • '—'Be it so,' said the envoy; and he retired, after having first deposited the token agreed on in the place pointed out to him by Selim.†   (source)
  • The envoy presented his letter of introduction, which the latter read with English coolness, and having finished,—"I understand," said he, "perfectly."†   (source)
  • For instance, on our side we would write, "The interests of Great Britain in this place, and throughout the whole of Germany, are perilled by the continuance in office of the present French envoy; this man is of a character so infamous that he will stick at no falsehood, or hesitate at no crime, to attain his ends.†   (source)
  • In the early days of October another envoy came to Kutuzov with a letter from Napoleon proposing peace and falsely dated from Moscow, though Napoleon was already not far from Kutuzov on the old Kaluga road.†   (source)
  • As the envoy of the prefect of police arrived ten minutes before ten, he was told that Lord Wilmore, who was precision and punctuality personified, was not yet come in, but that he would be sure to return as the clock struck.†   (source)
  • Yes, he had seen the Right Honourable the Earl of Bagwig, his lordship's father; he was sure he had, he had met him at—at the Levee—didn't Dob remember? and when the Diplomatist called on the party, faithful to his promise, Jos received him with such a salute and honours as were seldom accorded to the little Envoy.†   (source)
  • Balashev began to feel uncomfortable: as envoy he feared to demean his dignity and felt the necessity of replying; but, as a man, he shrank before the transport of groundless wrath that had evidently seized Napoleon.†   (source)
  • …to refute you, and I will show you my father, M. Noirtier de Villefort, one of the most fiery Jacobins of the French Revolution; that is to say, he had the most remarkable audacity, seconded by a most powerful organization—a man who has not, perhaps, like yourself seen all the kingdoms of the earth, but who has helped to overturn one of the greatest; in fact, a man who believed himself, like you, one of the envoys, not of God, but of a supreme being; not of providence, but of fate.†   (source)
  • After all that Napoleon had said to him—those bursts of anger and the last dryly spoken words: "I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter," Balashev felt convinced that Napoleon would not wish to see him, and would even avoid another meeting with him—an insulted envoy—especially as he had witnessed his unseemly anger.†   (source)
  • With reference to diplomacy, all Napoleon's arguments as to his magnanimity and justice, both to Tutolmin and to Yakovlev (whose chief concern was to obtain a greatcoat and a conveyance), proved useless; Alexander did not receive these envoys and did not reply to their embassage.†   (source)
  • Miloradovich, who said he did not want to know anything about the commissariat affairs of his detachment, and could never be found when he was wanted—that chevalier sans peur et sans reproche * as he styled himself—who was fond of parleys with the French, sent envoys demanding their surrender, wasted time, and did not do what he was ordered to do.†   (source)
  • He sent envoys to the Achaeans, who were friends of the Romans, exhorting them to remain neutral; and on the other hand the Romans urged them to take up arms.†   (source)
  • The hypothesis of a plasmic memory, advanced by the Caledonian envoy and worthy of the metaphysical traditions of the land he stood for, envisaged in such cases an arrest of embryonic development at some stage antecedent to the human.†   (source)
  • BOOK XVIII A Broadway Pageant 1 Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, Ride to-day through Manhattan.†   (source)
  • For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only, Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead, The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable, The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees, The north, the sweltering south, eastern Assyria, the Hebrews, the ancient of ancients, Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.†   (source)
  • Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin.†   (source)
  • Majestically sad, he sits in state, And bids his envoys their success relate.†   (source)
  • Let us kneel down with joy And praise the kind deeds of his envoy.†   (source)
  • O! marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this.†   (source)
  • A good l'envoy, ending in the goose; would you desire more?†   (source)
  • No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the mail, sir.†   (source)
  • Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and the word l'envoy for a salve?†   (source)
  • O! sir, plantain, a plain plantain; no l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain.†   (source)
  • Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l'envoy.†   (source)
  • The envoy further added, "that in order to maintain the peace and amity between both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be punished as a traitor."†   (source)
  • L'Envoy of Chaucer.†   (source)
  • He has been seated on a throne surrounded with minions and mistresses, giving audience to the envoys of foreign potentates, in all the supercilious pomp of majesty.†   (source)
  • With this answer the envoy returned to Lilliput; and the monarch of Blefuscu related to me all that had passed; offering me at the same time (but under the strictest confidence) his gracious protection, if I would continue in his service; wherein, although I believed him sincere, yet I resolved never more to put any confidence in princes or ministers, where I could possibly avoid it; and therefore, with all due acknowledgments for his favourable intentions, I humbly begged to be…†   (source)
  • This envoy had instructions to represent to the monarch of Blefuscu, "the great lenity of his master, who was content to punish me no farther than with the loss of mine eyes; that I had fled from justice; and if I did not return in two hours, I should be deprived of my title of nardac, and declared a traitor."†   (source)
  • True, and I for a plantain: thus came your argument in; Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought; And he ended the market.†   (source)
  • To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose: Let me see: a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.†   (source)
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