messengership

Under the rule of the Republican party we have seen colored men hold office from the United States Senate down to a messengership in the departments.

Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising 1887

He would have liked to offer a messengership, but the Treasury had hundreds of applications from great people who wished to dispose of favourite footmen whose services they no longer required.

Mark Rutherford's Deliverance Mark Rutherford 1872

Books; or now and then to go on tiptoe into Mr Dombey's empty room, and stir the fire; or to take an airing at the door, and have a little more doleful chat with any straggler whom he knew; or to propitiate, with various small attentions, the head accountant: from whom Mr Perch had expectations of a messengership in a Fire Office, when the affairs of the House should be wound up.

Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

This kind of spiritual hubris only survived as long as it did through the shame of followers to acknowledge it-a code of silence to protect the "sanctity" of the messengership on which they based their lives.

Planet Atheism 2008

"P.S. -- Just as I finished writing I had a note from Judge Featherton offering me the court messengership at five dollars a week.

The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889