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Example sentences for "despatches"

Lexicographically close words:
despairs; despatch; despatched; despatcher; despatchers; despatching; despayre; desperado; desperadoes; desperat
  1. On the morning of the 10th a courier arrived with despatches from the Committee of Government.

  2. Our hero presented his Highness with the official despatches from the Ministers announcing his proclamation as Grand-Duke, and inviting him to return to Castelcicala to take possession of the throne.

  3. The Committee of Government of the State of Castelcicala have received the various despatches which the General-in-Chief of the Constitutional Army has addressed to them respectively from Villabella, Piacere, and Abrantani.

  4. He was not only a thorough master of his own language, which, as his despatches show, he wrote with force and elegance, but he also studied Latin and Mathematics.

  5. In all his despatches he always set forth the commercial {161} advantages of his different conquests, and excused his imperial ideas by defending them on commercial grounds.

  6. A band of working-men came to request Monsieur Garconnet to communicate the despatches he had received from Paris, which the latter haughtily refused to do; as it retired the band shouted: "Long live the Republic!

  7. I have promised Colonel Lewis to carry despatches when not scouting.

  8. Near this hamlet lived Colonel Andrew Lewis, to whom I was to report before carrying or forwarding Doctor Connolly's despatches to Governor Dunmore.

  9. I must carry my despatches over the mountains to-morrow.

  10. His Lordship must have the despatches at the earliest possible minute.

  11. The carrying of despatches between Fort Pitt and Botetourt County is considered to be rather important.

  12. On this particular morning when the summer was in full tide of song and scents and pleasing vistas, I was bringing important despatches to Governor Dunmore.

  13. I hoped he would provide a messenger for forwarding my despatches to Governor Dunmore in Williamsburg.

  14. Now I produced the despatches committed to my care by Doctor Connolly.

  15. The frigate made a quick passage to Gibraltar, where she was suffered to remain only a few hours, and was then directed to pursue her way with despatches for Sir Horatio Nelson.

  16. The despatches are as little compared with what I have had from Marlborough's own lips--what may not be trusted upon paper.

  17. So you are the bearer of despatches to the Duke of Savoy?

  18. They were going to take ship for Holland, and thence make their way with despatches to one of the allies of the Duke; so much he let them freely know.

  19. Belike, too, he may be busy, and it may be I shall have to wait his leisure; or he may himself have to wait for despatches from abroad ere he can give me mine.

  20. Those who were ever quartered at Gibraltar will remember two despatches over the mantelpiece, Collingwood’s on Trafalgar; Wellington on Waterloo.

  21. The existence of these two despatches was not known to Sir E.

  22. A series of brief despatches passed between Lord Kitchener and the Secretary of State for War between March 12 and April 11.

  23. From intercepted despatches forwarded by the commandant to Scheepers it was discovered that he had seriously condemned the inhuman practices of his countrymen.

  24. During the first days of our voyage we touched at Cadiz to get our last despatches before starting across the ocean.

  25. He sent a vessel to Malta with despatches for Constantinople.

  26. Either they are killed or so scared by the dangers they run that they destroy their despatches and dare not show their faces again.

  27. A] Early in this month congress received despatches containing a treaty between the king of France and the United States of America.

  28. Both were rejected; but the latter was virtually admitted, by permitting his lordship to send away the Bonetta with despatches to Sir Henry Clinton, free from search.

  29. He was proceeding then to Regensburg, And on him were despatches for the Swede.

  30. In this position of affairs the royal rescript arrived from Spain in answer to the proposition of the bishops and the last despatches of the regent.

  31. And is not the regent perpetually reverting in her despatches to the fact that nothing but the want of a suitable military force has hitherto hindered her from enforcing the edicts, and stopping the progress of the rebels?

  32. Private despatches they intrusted to him, In cyphers, for the Queen of Scots, which he, With loyal hand, hath given up to us.

  33. In the meantime, Montigny had every day and at any hour that he desired, an audience with the king, who also commanded that on all occasions the despatches of the duchess and the answers to them should be communicated to himself.

  34. It is my desire that you appear at the public banquet as if nothing had happened, and after that return as soon as you can to the cantonments with the despatches which I will deliver to you for Colonel Ross.

  35. In a few minutes he was ready for his departure, with his master's verbal despatches carefully stowed away in his capacious head, out of which no one but those to whom they were to be delivered were likely to draw them.

  36. The despatches she copied were unintelligible to Marian, but the one to whom they were addressed had the key.

  37. According to the press despatches of the day, there was much uncertainty in regard to General Lee's movements and plans.

  38. As fast as I write these despatches and letters copy them.

  39. He lingered throughout the afternoon and evening with her and went on to Williamsburg with his despatches the next morning.

  40. One May day Washington rode off from Mount Vernon to carry despatches to Williamsburg.

  41. Then there is the important testimony of a Royalist intelligencer who got his information at the Hague on June 9, from the man who had brought ashore the despatches from the defeated Dutch fleet.

  42. He was at the same time fortified with despatches from the sovereigns to the Spanish minister, Garcilasso de la Vega, to be delivered immediately on his arrival.

  43. Isabella received her husband's despatches a few hours after they were written, by means of the regular line of posts maintained between the camp and her station at Jaen.

  44. I can't tell you with what eager fear we look for despatches every day and twice a day hurry to get the newspapers.

  45. Of course the public here doesn't know how utterly unorganized the State Department is--how we can't get answers to important questions, and how they publish most secret despatches or allow them to leak out.

  46. A few days after the arrival of the Harpy at Port Mahon a cutter came in with despatches from the Admiral.

  47. He therefore carried his own despatches away from England-- from Malta the despatches had to be forwarded to Toulon to the Admiral, and then the Admiral had to send to England to the Admiralty, whose reply had to come out again.

  48. But before they met the Governor at his table, a sloop of war arrived from the fleet with despatches from the commander-in-chief.

  49. I have only been appointed to her one month, after an action in which the Harpy took a large corvette, and am ordered home with despatches to England.

  50. His first prize was a packet brig carrying despatches from Calcutta to the English General before Angora.

  51. He wrote a few days before to you from Alexandria by the Mercury sent with despatches to Lord Keith.

  52. When his commission is sent, however, it will not be so long on its road as our letters, because all the Government despatches are forwarded by land to his lordship from Lisbon with great regularity.

  53. Flora cutter is in sight, closing with the squadron, I have detained him till the morning, that he may take from her any despatches she may have for you.

  54. In a short time the despatches were ready, and he had taken his leave.

  55. The despatches contained accounts of the arrival of the Spanish squadron, and of Sir James's determination to attack them if they attempted to put to sea, even with the force under his command.

  56. They sail for England in the Plymouth lugger, which carries home despatches and private letters.

  57. Fearing that, with the ship I have in tow, it will not be possible to reach Rozia Bay till a late hour, I send an officer on shore with the despatches for your lordship, and the letters for the garrison.

  58. On Thursday night I was sent in attendance upon the officer who carried despatches to General Quitman.

  59. That night, upon again inquiring for him, he was told that he had been sent in attendance upon the officers who had borne secret despatches to General Quitman, at his quarters on the Acapulco road.


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