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  • "So you come as Zeus' spy then?" "I prefer the word envoy."  (source)
  • While I was lying in that bed waiting to take my first steps in a new world, Gordon Brown, the UN special envoy for education and former prime minister of Britain, had launched a petition under the slogan "I am Malala" to demand no child be denied a school by 2015.  (source)
  • Coming upon the suitcases of the German envoy, POWs shredded the clothes, soaked them in mud and oil, and repacked them with friendly notes signed "Winston Churchill."  (source)
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  • They disliked my choice to become the Queen's envoy and ambassador; it seemed inappropriate.  (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • "The second step you must take — and at once," Dumbledore pressed on, "is to send envoys to the giants."  (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • In a secret message from the German foreign minister to his envoy in Mexico, Germany proposed an alliance with the understanding that Mexico would reconquer its lost territories.  (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • Lord Walder's sons and envoys fell in around her.  (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • 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)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • As the giant got closer, I could see three human-size envoys with him: a half-blood in armor, an empousa demon with a black dress and flaming hair, and a tall man in a tuxedo.  (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • With France and America now joined in common cause, he was no longer the envoy of a friendly nation but of an ally.  (source)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • ...the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."  (source)
    Envoys = representatives sent on a mission
  • 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)
    envoy = representative sent on a mission
  • Matron got the British and Indian embassies to promise to send their envoys in the morning.†  (source)
    envoys = representatives sent on a mission
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