21 Metaphors for messengers

"The messenger was the white hair in his majesty's whiskers.

The messenger will be an English herald, and will demand immediate audience, andandhowever, I'll keep the remainder of that plan to myself.

" The two messengers were not over four hundred yards from us, and the Indians were only about two hundred yards behind them.

E. According to De Faria, this messenger was a bramin, who left his son and nephew at Cochin as hostages, and accompanied De Gama to Calicut, where he carried various messages between the zamorin and the admiral. Astl.

The messenger was M. Goguelat: he took the name of M. Daumartin, and adhered to the cause of his sovereigns to the last moment of their lives.

My little boy-messenger on this occasion was the son of Basil Montagu.

The messenger from the legation was a youngish man, with waxed moustache and wearing an eyeglass.

That's wrong, because the messengers can't have been backtelephone message?

Such messengers were frequent visitors during Gerbert's prosperous career.

We were reading aloud, about an hour before bedtime, when the messenger was announcedand he brought the Queen's fatal letter.

My messengers are winds that lave Far reedy shores, and bring me song, Blent with the murmurs of the wave.

On approaching a post-house, the messenger sounds a horn, that a fresh horse or horses, according to his company, may be brought out, and ready to mount immediately.

His messenger in this business was Sighelm, bishop of Sherburn, who, with great prosperity, which is much to be wondered at in this age, penetrated into India; whence he brought on his return, splendid exotic gems, and aromatic liquors, of which the soil of that region is prolific.

But Donnegan replied with monosyllables, and Landis, apparently reconciling himself to the fact that the messenger was a fool, ceased his questions.

" The messenger was a chatty soul and loved a bit of gossip dearly; besides, the pot of ale warmed his heart; so that, settling himself in an easy corner of the inn bench, while the host leaned upon the doorway and the hostess stood with her hands beneath her apron, he unfolded his budget of news with great comfort.

But perhaps it was better that the messenger should not be a woman; they might have said it was delusion, an attack of the nerves.

The two messengers from the king of Portugal whom Covilham met with at Cairo, were both Jewish rabbis, named Abraham of Beja and Joseph of Lamego.

The messenger was St. Bernard.

SPECIAL MESSENGER is the title of Mr. Chambers's novel just preceding "The Danger Mark."

I believe the messenger was Abenadar, for I saw him assisting in taking Jesus down from the Cross.

Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number; Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight; The second was a steely dudgeon dagger; The third it was a swift and speedy courser; The fourth of my companions was a bent bow; My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.

21 Metaphors for  messengers