1 We knew them both; it was the fairy of Care, and the emissary of Fortune.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 2 Brunehilde and Fredegonde were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, when man was learning to control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 80. The Accusation. 3 Arthur Dimmesdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, in all ages of the Christian world, was haunted either by Satan himself or Satan's emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.
4 At last I ran away myself, whenever I saw an emissary of the police approaching with some new intelligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported.
5 Something like an emissary of light, something like a lower sort of apostle.
6 He is an emissary of pity, and science, and progress, and devil knows what else.
7 Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed.
8 Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.
9 It was that of Eustacia's emissary.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 10 As for the tribe itself, it had been content to announce to Montcalm, through his emissaries, with Indian brevity, that their hatchets were dull, and time was necessary to sharpen them.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 11 My brother met some emissaries of the cardinal in the uniform of Musketeers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 63 THE DROP OF WATER