After having been printed as broadsides in an edition of a thousand or more by the King's printer, they were sent by messengers to the sheriffs of the various counties and towns, by whom they were posted.
With the reform of the postal service in 1709, the Privy Council discontinued the use of riding messengers and ordered that in future proclamations should be sent out by post.
The messengers stood side by side with an air of importance.
The captain was eagerly impatient in sending his messengers to Nantes when the Paris post might be expected, and was ever disappointed at their return.
The messengers were impatient to go their ways among the Old Fields farms, and went hurrying down toward the brook and round the head of the cove, and up the hill again through the oak pasture toward the houses at Pound Hill.
He sent messengers ostensibly to plead for the restoration of his property, but really for the purpose of exciting treason.
The refugees at Veii, too, turned in their thoughts to Camillus, and messengers were sent to him at Ardea, where he was in exile, asking him to come to the assistance of his distressed countrymen.
The people now felt that the end of the republic had come, but still they would not listen to Hannibal when he sent messengers to ask terms of peace.
One of these peaceful messengers was murdered by direction of the queen of the country, Teuta, by name, and of course war was declared, which ended in the overthrow of the treacherous queen.
Both Cleopatra and Antony sentmessengers to solicit the favor of Octavius, but he was cold and did not satisfy them, and calmly pushed his plans.
The people of Veii sent messengers to him to sue for peace, but their appeal was in vain.
Campbell's arrival at this river a week before, he found messengers waiting to inform him that the Rajah would meet him here; this being half way between Dorjiling and Tumloong.
Messengers from the Dewan overtook us at the river to announce that the Rajah was prepared and waiting to give us a reception; so we returned, and I borrowed a coat from Dr.
By his holy angels, we are to understand his gospel messengers or martyred apostles and by his saints, those who had died in his cause.
He pointed out the many crimes of which they and their fathers had been guilty in shedding the blood of the prophets, and persecuting those who were sent unto them as the messengers of Jehovah.
From time to time also messengersare sent out by the committee to promote the interests of the Yeshibah.
The way in which our author here dispatches messengers to Suez and Constantinople from England, quite takes our breath away.
The Prophets and Messengers of God have been sent down for the sole purpose of guiding mankind to the straight Path of Truth.
In the meane time the Monkes dispatched two Legates or messengers to =Rome=, to obtaine a confirmation of these things of the Pope, that hereafter it should be vtterly vnlawfull for any man to contrary or mislike the same.
The magistrates at once sent messengers to the sepulchre where the boy’s body had been laid.
She hurried to her room, and despatched messengers in all directions, though it was now near midnight.
Nero, shaking with alarm, sent messengers in fiery haste for Burrus and Seneca, both of whom had come from Rome to Baiæ at his request to attend upon him during the Quinquatrus.
Other soldiers and messengerswere constantly arriving in groups from all directions.
I hastened to express my thanks for the Tarjum's kindness, and I handed the messengers a sum in silver of three times the value of the articles presented.
We could not even then discern in the dim light whether they were our messengers or not.
Messengers on horseback had been sent post-haste from Taklakot to warn the Gyanema officer not to let him penetrate into Hundes (the Tibetan name for Tibet) should he attempt to come by the Lumpiya Pass.
He kept on sending daily messengers with more threats.
The Jong Pen of Taklakot had sent other messengers and soldiers to insure the fulfilment of his orders, and to prevent our further progress.
As time went on and the messengers did not put in an appearance, we began to entertain doubts as to their safety.
At last, after repeated good-byes and words of encouragement, the four messengers left on their perilous errand.
He sent messengers threatening to cut off my head if I crossed the boundary, and promised to flog and kill any man who accompanied me.
From whence he sent messengers vnto all such lords as he suspected, commanding them to send vnto him hostages for more assurance of their fidelities.
Messengers were sent with authority to apprehend him, wherever they should find him.
The manager had agreed to have Glover present for the supper which was now waiting, and for some time messengers and telegrams passed from the Brock Special to the cañon.
The tyrant even now has abused the most sacred laws of humanity which bid every man to respect the messengers of peace.
He also tried to send messengers to Captain Lodrono at the Waalpoort, but the messengers must all have been intercepted and killed, for no help came from anywhere.
The culverins are down below, covered by the angles of the cross-streets; the messengers either fall ere they reach the Schelde or are sent back the way they came.
In the meanwhile he deigned to parley with the lout, for he was sore pressed inside the Kasteel, and the messengers who were speeding to Dendermonde for reinforcements could not possibly bring help for at least another four-and-twenty hours.
He called them together by roll of drums and by word of mouth transmitted by volunteer messengers who have flown all over the town.
One of Captain Lodrono's messengers reached Dendermonde last night," replied de Avila, "he was lucky enough to get a horse almost at once.
Those messengerssent back from the scouting parties flung to their comrades brief sentences and passed on rapidly, becoming lost in the great motionless mass, to make their report to the Staff.
Everybody knew it was really Pet, because she had grown so like her mother, whom they had all loved; and besides they quite expected to see her coming, as messengers had been sent into all the corners of the world searching for her.
As these messengers had been gone about eight or nine years, the people thought it was high time for Queen Pet to appear.
Each one had some lively Cuban boatmen and messengers from hotels, who came to row passengers to shore, and solicit patronage for particular houses.
No, but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words.
These messengersare the diseases or decays by which the Lord takes down the earthly tabernacle, when He sees good to receive the souls of His people into His immediate presence.
A fifth sign of a man being past grace is, when he shall at this scoff, and inwardly grin and fret against the Lord, secretly purposing to continue his course, and put all to the venture, despising the messengers of the Lord.
His messengers keep going to and from Him, ever and anon, with brief messages to each assemblage, telling to the one host of His mildness and mercy, and to the other of His sternness and harshness.
So comforted and so sustained, With dark events I strove, And found, when rightly understood, All, messengers of love.
The sky is as a temple's arch: The blue and wavy air Is glorious with the spirit march Of messengers at prayer.
Thy various messengers employ; Thy purposes of love fulfil; And, 'mid the wreck of human joy, Let kneeling faith adore Thy will.
Their messengers are from the first line of our American congregations, and these men of God are preaching as they never preached before.
There in the woods I left him under a sky whose paths are crowded with iron messengers of death, making a little bit of heaven for hundreds of men who tread daily the places of a man-made hell.
Oh that they may become real torments to those who deny a Son of Man,--real messengers of life to those who seek for one!
These messengers communicate more with the spirit of men, present themselves more rarely to the eye.
The messengershave exhausted their guesses; they begin to be provoked.
The messengers are not told what this Person who is in the midst of them would do, which John could not do; that announcement is reserved for another occasion.
He evidently understood the question literally, for the messengers intended it literally.
The messengers must get some clear distinct satisfaction on this point before they returned to their masters.
The subtle effluvia permeating the night air for miles around might have guided these messengersinto the German trenches had not a nearer and more imperious perfume annihilated it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "messengers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
