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emissaries

Meaning

of Emissary

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. George Bancroft

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have broken the glass of the fire-alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long. Arthur C. Clarke

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. Hazel Scott

Mostly the adult Indians did not wish their children to learn these arts from the emissaries of what they astonishingly considered an alien, false and hostile God. Sinclair Lewis

Devouring Famine, Plague, and War, Each able to undo mankind, Death's servile emissaries are; Nor to these alone confined, He hath at will More quaint and subtle ways to kill; A smile or kiss, as he will use the art, Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart. James Shirley

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. Arthur C. Clarke

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