English teacher cautious in absence of head delegate

Usage examples of emissary.

Constantine should be rendered incapable of the throne: her emissaries assaulted the sleeping prince, and stabbed their daggers with such violence and precipitation into his eyes as if they meant to execute a mortal sentence.

It was a concession to the circumambient enemy, of whom even a good friend was apart, and not better than a respectful emissary.

My height and strength so enraptured the emissaries of the king, that in the middle of the service before the altar, as I was reading mass, they tore me away without regarding the prayers and outcries of my flock.

Bonescrolls as an emissary to the Serbota, and later it served the eth as a psychic factotum.

He now noticed, however, that furtive, furcating cracks kept appearing in his physical well-being, as if inevitable decomposition were sending out to him, across static gray time, its first emissaries.

Then the king became impatient for there were other things to think about: there was just time to go to the mews to inspect one of his favorite gerfalcons, who was ailing, before he had to receive an emissary from Burgundy.

Their scarlet-cloaked emissaries of death went forth to do the bidding of the Magus of the Sons of Yezm, and kings died in Luxur, in Python, in Kuthchemes, in Dagon.

Via Mozza, he found Mini entertaining a lavishly gowned emissary from the Duke of Ferrara.

The withdrawal of the former, with his troops, from the region of country which they had so lately covered, was the signal for that rising of the loyalists upon the Pedee, to instigate which the unfortunate emissary of General Leslie had been dispatched from Charleston.

They had also been off Puget Sound, but had not gone inland, and brought Vancouver word that Don Quadra, the Spanish emissary, sent to restore to England the fort from which Meares, the trader, had been ousted, had arrived at Nootka on the other side of the island, and was waiting.

He wrote that he was hopeful of agreement once Monsieur Randan, the French emissary for peace, could get instructions from Mary of Guise.

Whose emissaries knock at every door In rhythmal rote, and groan the great events The hour is pregnant with?

Since his first visit there Tom Ryfe, in person or through his emissaries, had watched the place strictly enough to have become familiar with the habits of its inmates.

Walden Thar is at present on tour as aide to the Ryke emissary, Liacan.

The sums distributed by her emissaries with a lavish hand silenced every objection, and the profusion sufficiently proved the affinity, or at least the resemblance, of Bassianus with the great original.