Rouse Lacy and Thom, and send them to me at once, and leave word that I shall require a score of couriers to be in the saddle and ready to set out in half an hour.
Early on the 16th, Abdullah and his couriers were despatched down river.
My mind suffered under a constant strain of anxiety respecting the fate of my twenty choice men which were despatched as couriers to the rear column under Major Barttelot, as well as of the rear column itself.
The couriers had left Lieutenant Stairs at Ugarrowwa's station on the 16th of March, and had reached Wasp Rapids in seventeen days, or on the 1st of April, where they had been driven back with a loss of four of their number.
As our twenty couriers left here 16th February, it will be four months, June 16th, since they left.
Couriers were also sent to the Pool with request to the Commandant to hurry up the repairs of all steamers.
No news had been obtained of our Rear Column by either the couriers or Ugarrowwa.
The letter to the Major, which I had delivered to Ugarrowwa for despatch by his couriers last September, was now returned to me with the letters from my own couriers.
At night, wrote the following letter to Emin Pasha, for transmission to-morrow by couriers overland, who will travel through Uganda into Unyoro secretly.
They passed their lives in hunting, and despatched two couriers a week, one thousand miles, to let each other know what game they had killed the preceding days.
Couriers and relay-horses by land, and swift-sailing pilot-boats by sea, were flying in all directions.
Herodotus speaks of the same sort of couriers in the reign of Xerxes.
The Consul of Alexandria daily sends despatches by these means to Aleppo in five hours, though couriers occupy the whole day, and proceed with the utmost expedition from one town to the other.
These couriers were called in the Persian language by a name signifying, as near as we can comprehend it, “service by compulsion.
He likewise appointed a “postmaster,” to receive the packets from the couriers as they arrived, and give them to others, and to take the horses and furnish fresh ones.
During the day they saw several parties of troops following the road; and manycouriers passed along, at a swift run.
The couriers know nothing of the dispatches they carry.
At each of these couriers are stationed, men trained to run at great speed, and these carry the dispatches from post to post, at the rate of eight or nine miles an hour.
The cazique said that he would send couriers with the royal gift to Montezuma; and that, as soon as he had learned his will, he would communicate it.
And do you, Colonel of Cherkasi, send couriers with an account of the affair to Konyetspolski and Prince Dominic.
Couriers had come from Hmelnitski to Burlai with news that war had begun, and with orders to lead all the regiments to Volynia.
In the earlier period, the delays and expenses of special messengers and couriers rendered it necessary for the local tribunals to be virtually independent in the routine business of arresting, trying, sentencing and punishing offenders.
Wide o'er the realm the couriers rode, And fast their horses ran, And many they saw, and to many they spoke, But they found no Happy Man.
The couriers performed their services weekly in summer and fortnightly in winter.
The couriers who conveyed the mails were much slower than most other travellers on the same roads.
Despatch couriers passed between Quebec, fort Howe and Halifax, and efforts were made to overcome the obstacles to travel, particularly on the portage between the St. Lawrence and lake Temiscouata.
Couriers carried the mails into several of the more populous counties; and a fortnightly service was established between Williamsburg and Philadelphia.
In the winter, the mails were to be carried from Boston to Highgate, Vermont, where they would be taken over by couriers attached to the Canadian post office.
The laughter which the ferocious pleasantry of the old minister had excited had hardly subsided, when the door opened, and a page announced several couriers who had arrived simultaneously from different points.
There were many trunks, avant couriers of the passengers.
Avant couriers of a metropolitan yacht club, on its annual cruise, arrived, jockeying in with billowing mountains of snowy canvas spread to catch the last whispers of the breeze.
The khan had, in fact, sent forward couriers with all the requisite statements and petitions, addressed to the Emperor of China.
The messages were all dispatched secretly, but the couriers reached Prizrend and met at the gates of Nedelyko's dwelling.
Marko thought the counsel good and dispatched couriers forthwith, as his mother advised.
Couriers were sent to other friends, who received Ivan's invitation gladly, and before long the plain of Zablak was studded with their innumerable tents.
The couriers then went out and awaited the coming of the Archdeacon.
Other couriershad arrived from different points, on ponies streaked with dust.
He called all his lords and officers, and gave commands to send couriers to the army already assembled at Bubastis, and expecting to march against the king of Edom, who had long menaced Egypt.
As soon as the arrangement was made, Atahuallpa sent couriers to Cuzco and all the other chief places in the kingdom, with orders to strip the royal palaces of their treasures and send them without delay to Caxamalca.
Why, dear me, I thought the Old Nick and all his couriers had pounced down upon us.
Redburn interrupted, suddenly, leaping to his feet; "they say the devil's couriers are ever around when you are talking of them.
The Khan had, in fact, sent forward couriers with all the requisite statements and petitions, addressed to the Emperor of China.
The infantry battalion at the gate moved against the left of the cavalry, and couriers were despatched to hurry up more.
Back from the front on various missions galloped couriersand aides, spurring their horses unmercifully, and driving straight through the mob in utter recklessness.
I think they sent for artillery, but none came, and when one of the couriers returned and reported, bringing only another infantry battalion, it was decided to delay the attempt no longer.
It is largely employed for fuel, and the desert couriersuse nothing else, their Camels being furnished with a net, so that none of this useful substance shall be lost.
But the clear-sighted hetman sent couriersin every direction and waited for tidings.
The king remained continually at the junction of the rivers, and sent couriers to fortresses and commands in every direction toward Cracow and Warsaw, with orders for all to hasten to him with assistance.
He dressed himself as a Greek shepherd, as Philemon; specialcouriers were flying to Koenigsberg for patterns of shepherd's garments, for ribbons and wigs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couriers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
