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Examples
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The King deemed himself in a dream and asked the messenger,
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I make no apology for giving you this trouble, nor for desiring you to favour with a line, by this messenger,
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And these couriers be clept CHYDYDO, after their language, that is to say, a messenger,
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“If it please your worship,” answered the messenger,
Kenilworth 2004
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Instead of attempting - undiplomatically and clumsily - to shoot down the messenger,
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On the bitterest winter's night he would give his unfailing answer through the window to any messenger,
Fletcher of Madeley Brigadier Margaret Allen
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Though glad I were, if to you/had lied the messenger,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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The Epistles to the Colossians, the Ephesians, and Philemon were despatched together and by the same messenger,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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P: And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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S: And certainly We tried before them the people of Firon, and there came to them a noble messenger,
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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