After the observance of these preliminaries, he delivered the missive to its lawful owner, who opened it, and rapidly perused its contents.

She will hide a letter written by her grandmother as quickly and deftly as if it were a missive from a guilty lover.

A smile had crept over his face at his old friend Bill Harmon's spelling and penmanship, for a missive of that kind seldom came to the American Consulate.

" Well, I argued, and refused, but in the long run he forced me to agree to put a missive into Mrs. Linton's hand.

She then reminded him of the numerous promises which he had made to her that he would cease to give her cause of complaint, and terminated the missive by calling God to witness that should he still be willing to fulfil them, she would, on her side, renounce all desire for vengeance upon those by whom she had been so deeply, wronged.

After he had affixed his signature and had sealed the missive with his private seal, he folded the parchment and handed it to the bishop, saying: "Seal the pouch, my lord, and send Byron, the herald, here to receive our personal instructions.

And now, hesitating no more, Anthea took up her pen, and wrote,surely a very short missive for a love-letter.

Thus for a time matters remainedlittle Imtiazan wearing her delicate fingers out at home, he plying his pen in the street, until one day a dancing-girl from Lucknow called him to her house to write an important missive on her behalf.

Directions were further given for circulating this missive among the Western clergy.

She in the meanwhile had received a second, yet more peremptory, missive through the same channel as the previous one.

Spreading the missive before her, she dipped the quill in the ink-well, and when she lifted it, a drop of ink fell upon the table within a hair's breadth of the parchment.

"Go to your parlor and fetch ink and quill," said Charles, pointing with the folded missive toward Yolanda.

" Bobby stuffed the missive under his air-pillow, and rolled over without a word.

Watching my opportunity, I slipped the missive between the leaves of a copy of the Saturday Evening Post.