"Envoy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... assemblage (only upon a grander scale) of the ministers to the physical appetites and the mental tastes. There was the fretting and impudent mountebank, side by side with the gentle and patient scholar; the harlot's envoy and the priest's messenger; the agent of the police and the licensed breaker of its laws; there—but what boots a more prolix description? What is the anteroom of a great man, who has many wants and many tastes, but a panorama of the blended ...
— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... must pardon us; but just think for a moment. Should you send an envoy to the island he will take ten years to get there and ten more to return—twenty years in all. Will not the princess have grown old in that time and have lost all ...
— The Crimson Fairy Book • Various
... our ambassador at Dresden received a similar communication from the French envoy at the court of Saxony. The Emperor Napoleon desires likewise to see your majesty at Dresden. Here is ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
... busy observing the life of the convent and satisfying himself that the descriptions given by the traders were accurate, the friars had chosen Fray Luis Cancer(48) as their first envoy to his brother. Provided with more gifts for the cacique, he set out, the only Christian amidst the Indians who followed in the train of the Quiche chief, to penetrate into the unknown country, whose turbulent reputation had earned it the ...
— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt
... You will be a man of very short destiny if you wander about here without one of our children to guide you. I suppose you belong to the Baghdad envoy. ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw
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