The events of Wallace having dictated terms of peace with England, and Monteith pledging himself to that country's emissary to betray Wallace, having taken place in this church, are traditionary facts.
The countess had left an emissary in the Scottish camp, who did as she had done before--intercepted all messengers from Perthshire.
His mind had changed since the day in September 1884 when he had declared to an emissary from the court that he hated organic change in the House of Lords, and would do much to avert that mischief.
At half-past eleven, or a little later, on that day I received a telegram from the emissary that he could not reach his friend.
It was agreed at my interview with his emissaryon Sunday night (November 23) that I should be informed by eleven on Tuesday forenoon where I should see him.
VI Among other remarkable incidents, the Pope came to the rescue, and sent an emissary to inquire into Irish affairs.
Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed.
Another emissary rode to the Russian line to announce the peace negotiations and to offer the Russian army the three days' truce.
Master Olof has arrived as the emissary of the sovereign; solemn messengers bid the veterans of the soil to remain seated until they are called to appear before the king.
The look was so strange that the emissary thought it advisable to cut short the interview and to return to Khartoum empty-handed.
Towards the end of November, somebody at the War Office--it is not clear who--had suggested that this emissary should be General Gordon.
The Egyptian Governor-General at Khartoum, hearing that a religious movement was afoot, grew disquieted, and dispatched an emissary to Abba Island to summon the impostor to his presence.
At the earliest moment, the emissaryrushed back post-haste to Dr.
An emissary from Commandant Snyman had then come solemnly into the town under a flag of truce, to demand an unconditional surrender "to avoid further bloodshed.
They seemed to place great faith in my presence, as the emissary of Onan, and while I was, I was also Jehu, and I wasn't confident with my own abilities.
I do not write this to exonerate myself, however let me say here that I am more the Andre' than the Arnold, for I was but the emissary of history, not the traitor to humanity, and if not me then some other would have filled the void.
What kind of emissary is this for a God to send our temple, this temple dedicated to Amun?
The future was so entrancing that the present appeared like a dream; the lovely being before me seemed like an angel, an emissary from above come to tell me of the happiness which was in store for me.
Now he is wild and mad and insolent and foolhardy, because he believes that, no matter what tangle the situation is in, the celestial emissary he expects will straighten it out for him.
All this engaged the Maccabee's interest, but he made no comment until, on occasion of his casual word in praise of the fidelity of Aquila, Julian flew into a rage and reviled the emissary until the Maccabee brought him up with a sharp word.
By this time, then, the Maccabee's emissary had doubtless arrived in Jerusalem--the last possible point for the two conspirators to meet.
The emissary from Hernandez's camp pushed his horse close to Charles Gould.
You are a just man," urged the emissary of Hernandez.
The emissaryand compadre of Hernandez spurred his horse close up.
In a few words the emissary from Hernandez expressed his complete satisfaction.
By an emissary of his own, whom he despatched to the rebel chief, he renewed the assurance of pardon already given him, in case he would lay down his arms and submit.
To this same emissary he also gave manifestoes and letters, like those intrusted to the Dominican, with orders secretly to distribute them in Lima, before he quitted that capital.
Soon after beginning their descent on the eastern side, another emissary arrived from the Inca, bearing a message of similar import to the preceding, and a present, in like manner, of Peruvian sheep.
Unfortunately, the disguise of the emissary was detected.
Pizarro's emissary had orders to send the offending captain to Lima; but Benalcazar, after pushing his victorious career far into the north, had returned to Castile to solicit his guerdon from the emperor.
Among those who first reached the Peruvian shore was an emissary sent by Almagro's agents to inform him of the important grant made to him by the Crown.
Advancing, accordingly, in the direction of Lake Titicaca, in the neighbourhood of which Centeno had pitched his camp, Gonzalo despatched an emissary to his quarters to open a negotiation.
Towards evening his emissary returned with a fresh supply of fruits and vegetables, that the friendly people sent to the vessel.
The emissary was particularly instructed to observe if the strong passes on the road were defended, or if any preparations of a hostile character were to be discerned.
If the emissary succeeded, it meant the Bedouin's life and five hundred piastres to the messenger.
An emissary from General Georges Cadoudal asks to be admitted," said he.
At this desperate juncture the Archangel Michael descended and caught an emissary of the devil as he was gloating over his prey, and condemned that emissary to do service to the monks, in spite of his evil nature.
At least one important emissaryfell into the Lord President's hands in the person of Edmond O'Donnell, a Jesuit, who brought letters from Gregory XIII.
An emissary of Cecil's was from the first at work to sow dissension between Stukeley and Archbishop Fitzgibbon, who was already disliked by the Duke of Feria.
The emissarywas instructed to insist on a small force only being sent: a larger one would attract attention and defeat the scheme.
The emissary retired, bowing as he backed out, while La Salle ran his eyes over the remainder of the letter, muttering his comments aloud.
Not fifty yards distant Onawa stood as a guardian over the man she loved, staring into the night, heeding every sound in the valley, dreading the approach of some emissaryfrom her tribe.
Her chosen emissary was a Norman gentleman named Jacques Charles de Foulques, an ardent Bourbonist and a lieutenant-colonel in the army.
An Egyptian emissary was caught, his message to the besieged squeezed from him, and his body was then hurled from a catapult into the city.
James, too, was furious and had been twice to see the Padre, who had retreated to the sanctity of his lofty and impregnable convento to avoid the emissary of education.
In one of the letters preserved in the British Museum, Azîrû defends himself for having received an emissary of the King of the Khâti.
At last he told the Court emissary "that he must bring orders from God Almighty, as well as from the King, before he could obey.
In the last emissary he had recognized General Arthur Roe Paxton, President of the Mohican Trust, exploiter of certain Southern oil fields, equally involved in the Osaba speculation.
The emissary hesitated, seemed about to argue, and then, with a hopeless heave of his shoulders, retired.
Piang, without a moment's hesitation, offered to comply, and sent a vinta up the river with the required order, but at the same time he secretly sent another emissary overland with contrary instructions.
