What is "couriers"

Usage examples of "couriers".

All Rajput cavalrymen, except your escort and a few couriers, have been charged with the task of patrolling the outskirts of the city.

By now, I imagine, couriers have been dispatched to every port on the Erythrean Sea, alerting the garrisons.

They placed their top priority on sending off couriers to cover the entire Gulf.

The couriers headed for the Kathiawar and Barbaricum had departed a few hours later, almost as an afterthought.

Unlike the three couriers headed west, all of these couriers were filled with the urgency of their mission.

Royal couriers, in their own way, were one of the pampered elite of Malwa India.

Many of those couriers, more than once, had taken their messages from the very hand of the God-on-Earth himself.

Royal Malwa couriers believed themselves to be the fastest men in the world.

The horses which the couriers rode were even better, and the couriers enjoyed one great advantage—they were under no compulsion to keep their horses alive.

The Malwa army could flounder, and the Rajputs and Ye-tai thrash about in aimless pursuit, but the couriers would save the day.

But the couriers, like so many others throughout India in those weeks of frenzy, were too confident.

By the end of the second week after the Romans and Ethiopians began their flight south, all ten of these couriers had bypassed the foreigners and were now forging ahead of them.

Even the couriers were only able to gain a few miles on them each day.

All of the couriers were taking different roads, and none of those roads was the same as that taken by the foreigners.

The couriers would arrive at the Gulf of Khambat with more than ample time to spread the alarm.