The aid of the king of Castile was to be secured, and Don Pedro proceeded on a secret embassy to Cordova for the purpose.
By his advice he dispatched two of his stoutest warriors, armed cap-à-pie, on an embassy to the Moorish king.
The Pope, seeing them in earnest and fearing King Ferdinand, sent an embassy of two cardinals to them, entreating them to be reconciled with the Church.
Seeing that they had to do with a man at last, the Romans sent anembassy to him to urge his return to Rome.
Hall, in the squadron which conveyed Lord Amherst's embassy to China in 1816; and it is, therefore, worth while to repeat here the observations of Dr.
In 1732 Lord Chesterfield was obliged to retire from his embassy on the plea of ill-health, but probably, from some political cause.
No sooner did the news of his suicide reach the Aeginetans than those proud and wealthy islanders sought, by an embassy to Sparta, to regain their hostages yet detained at Athens.
They adventured a formal embassyto Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis, to engage the succour of Darius, king of Persia.
The Architheoria, or task of maintaining the embassy to sacred games and festivals.
On being told that no instructions had been given on this point, the English embassy expressed great surprise, and declared that they could do nothing until farther advices from their government.
After some discussion, the American embassy inquired if the pacification and settlement of a boundary for the Indians was a sine qua non.
In the mean time unfavorable news arrived from our embassyat Ghent.
Akbar received a Portuguese embassy in 1578 from Goa, at the head of which was Antonio Cabral.
Akbar, on hearing of his death, sent an embassy of condolence to the Portuguese Viceroy, and to the Jesuit Fathers at Goa.
In 1424 Chartier was sent on an embassy to Germany, and three years later he accompanied to Scotland the mission sent to negotiate the marriage of Margaret of Scotland, then not four years old, with the dauphin, afterwards Louis XI.
After another interlude of effective pamphleteering in opposition, he accepted the embassy to Rome in 1827, under the Martignac administration, but resigned it at Prince Polignac's accession to office.
The embassy was told that the girl was not yet of an age to marry, or that she was not worthy of the honor offered her.
The orator of the embassythen begged that the shortcomings of his former speech might be excused, and was answered by the oldest or most respected person present, on the parent's behalf.
An embassy has just arrived from Paperland and the King of Chocolate.
An embassy would then be despatched, furnished with minute instructions, and provided with necessary credits to be drawn against a special reserve-fund in the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
We have a full account of this embassyin a letter of St. Peter Damiani to the Archdeacon Hildebrand (Petri Dam.
Cremieux from Paris as a diplomatic embassy to the Viceroy at Alexandria to convince him, by such means as is most efficacious to an Oriental despot, of the innocence of the accused at Damascus.
In 1900, before his marriage, Herr von Bohlen was an attache at the German embassy at Washington.
When our Embassy went away all the Americans that remained behind went to the station to see them off.
The American Embassy is on the other side of the street.
This course compelled the Council to act; an embassy was appointed, which proceeded to Prague, and on the 30th of November, the same year, concluded a treaty with the Hussites.
After all, the Ambassador had not made a bad business of his embassy from his own point of view.
He was living on his estate, in great retirement from all public business, when Secretary Villeroy suddenly proposed him theembassy to the Hague.
Other high personages of state had written to express their resentment at his duplicity, perpetual mischief-making, and machinations against the peace of the kingdom, and stating the impossibility of his resuming the embassy at Paris.
It is instructive however to note the language in which Francis Aerssens spoke of favours and money bestowed by a foreign monarch upon himself, for Aerssens had come back from hisembassy full of gall and bitterness against Barneveld.
But it seems probable that Dante formed one of an embassy sent by the rulers of Florence to the Pope in the autumn of this year; and that on the occasion of the entrance of Charles he was absent from Florence.
The embassy to Venice is mentioned by Villani, and there was a treaty concluded in 1321 between the Republic and Guido.
What the embassy had to propose which Boniface could be expected to be satisfied with, short of complete submission, is not known and is not easy to guess.
In the course of 1301 he is believed to have gone on an embassy to Rome to persuade the Pope to abstain from meddling in Florentine affairs.
In it he imagines himself, as he is on his return from an embassy to Alphonso of Castile, meeting a scholar of Bologna of whom he asks 'in smooth sweet words for news of Tuscany.
The favorable results anticipated from Mr. Monroe's embassyto France signally failed.
While he was counsellor to the Embassy in London he was a frequent guest at 76, Sloane Street, and when he became Ambassador at Washington he still kept in constant touch with Sir Charles.
It was during his embassy that the rapprochement took place between France and Russia which was announced to Europe by the welcome of the French fleet to Cronstadt.
Berenger, Secretary of the French Embassy at the Hague.
The constitution of government is so complicated and whimsical a thing, and the temper and character of the nation so peculiar, that this is considered everywhere as the most difficult embassy in Europe.
For he joined the 'Friends of Man' when he was at the British Embassy at Petersburg long years ago; and no sooner had he been initiated than he turned round and denounced the society and all its works.
The embassy of the Jews to deprecate the execution of Claudian's order to place his statue in their temple Philo places in harvest, Josephus in seed-time, both contemporary writers.
No reader is led by this inconsistency to doubt whether such an embassy was sent, or whether such an order was given.
In 1537 Charles I obtained a license from the pope for the creation of the tribunal of the nunciature, or court of the papal embassyin Spain.
It occurred to the queen that the vexed question of the Italian duchies might be settled through an embassy to Vienna.
Lowland, peasant, by no means delighted at finding the embassy imposed on him and his son.
She was visited by the members of the French embassy and by many belonging to that circle and noted for their intellect and polished manners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embassy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
