92 Verbs to Use for the Word errands

I run errands and when there is nothing else to do, I study a big invoice book, so as to get the names of things that are bought.

Bennett told his errand to a friend whom he met in San Francisco, and this friend introduced him to Humphrey, who had been a gold-miner in Georgia, and was therefore competent to pass an opinion.

No workpeople, anywhere, looked to know my errand.

The night before I had had qualms about the whole business, but the air of morning has a trick of firing my blood, and I believe I had forgotten the errand which was taking me to the Carolina shores.

Please let her come with me," Kurt explained his errand.

There was something odd and even sinister in all this, which, along with the whispering and the curious glances of the waiters, who happened to hear the errand on which they came, inspired the two companions with vague misgivings, which they did not care mutually to disclose.

It was given to a child for performing an errand, but the charm would be broken if the reason for gifting it were explained.

"Come, now, Bruno!" Katrine saw him depart with his dog and gun; but if she guessed his errand, she did not dare remonstrate.

But though a willing messenger, Mr. Hepworth found it impossible to accomplish his errand with any degree of rapidity, and when he returned, successful but tardy, he found young Harper waiting where he had left Patty.

The master now made his appearance, and learning our errand, was very communicative.

The flying cinders of burning hay or wood, as they alighted upon the sun-dried shingles of the roof, needed to be swept off as fast as they fell, before they had time to fulfil their errand of mischief.

One day, as he was going an errand to Neck of Land, he was accosted by a meddlesome fellow named William Stump, with: "Master Robert, do you know you are soon to have a father-in-law?" (Stepfather was in those days known as father-in-law.)

Then he remembered his errand, and the work which was waiting up at the store.

I mentioned the soldier's errand.

"With wingéd expedition, Swift as the lightning glance, he executes His errand on the wicked."

He seemed come upon the stage to do the poet's message simply, and he did it with as genuine fidelity as the nuncios in Homer deliver the errands of the gods.

He is ever timorous and cowardly, and asks every man's errand at the door ere he opens.

After looking at one another for some time, a young man stepped forward, and said he would undertake the errand.

Here, when I had disclosed my errand, I was well received, and brought into the presence of the king, who greeted me with joy.

Abou-Firacah returned to his father, to whom he told all that the wife of Cais had said "What, you coward," shouted Hadifah, "do you come back without completing your errand?

As soon as I had declared my errand I was conducted into the presence of the Caliph, to whom, after I had made my obeisance, I gave the letter and the King's gift, and when he had examined them he demanded of me whether the Prince of Serendib was really as rich and powerful as he claimed to be.

But what'll Ham say?" That was a question which he could safely leave to the very responsible lady beside him; and she found "errands" enough for him, during the remainder of that forenoon, to keep him from worrying his mind about any thing else.

I've got an errand at the garage anyhow, as my dad wants a mechanic sent up to potter at his little runabout, out of commission as usual.

If he is to lead in intellectual and spiritual matters, he must be given fewer errands to run, the financial burden of his church must be taken absolutely from his shoulders, he must have a suitable salary, and his time must be at least as carefully guarded as that of the average man.

Having discharged his errand, Kit came downstairs again, finding no one in the office except Mr. Brass, who, after greeting him affably, requested him to mind the office for one minute while he ran upstairs.

92 Verbs to Use for the Word  errands