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Example sentences for "dispatches"

Lexicographically close words:
dispassionately; dispatch; dispatched; dispatcher; dispatchers; dispatching; dispatcht; dispayre; dispel; dispelled
  1. Many of the dispatches were in a complicated cipher which resisted all attempts at solution.

  2. Before the dispatches were returned to the telegraph company, somebody took the precaution to destroy those that concerned Republican campaign methods and to retain those relating to the Democrats.

  3. Grant" was reported in the morning dispatches and created some excitement; but the vessel did not sustain any substantial injury.

  4. From National Bank, State of New York: "Confirming previous dispatches covering subscriptions of seven million five hundred thousand dollars to four per cent.

  5. He has received some unauthorized dispatches advising him to withdraw in favor of McKinley, but he refuses absolutely to interfere with his managers.

  6. He spent three hours Sunday at the capitol, in his committee room, and received many telegrams from Chicago, and also sent dispatches to that great central point of interest.

  7. One by one he took up the telegraphic dispatches which, during the night, had been re-transmitted from the Foreign Office over the private wire to the instrument that stood upon a small table opposite us.

  8. The Earl, grumbling at my tardy arrival, was busy in his library with a number of important dispatches relating to our affairs in the East.

  9. Have those urgent dispatches come in from Berlin, Deedes?

  10. Hammerton is trustworthy, and while dispatches are in his care I have no fear.

  11. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was sitting at his table where I had left him, with an empty tea-cup at his side, resting his pale, weary brow upon his hand and writing dispatches rapidly with his scratchy quill.

  12. We only returned from Lord Maybury's this morning, and dispatches accumulate so fast in his absence.

  13. It was an unusual hour for a call, but, knowing that a porter was on duty always, and that dispatches frequently arrived during the night, I had no hesitation in seeking an interview.

  14. In November, dispatches from Wilkinson convinced the President of the need of more summary action.

  15. Early in March, 1797, dispatches arrived from the envoys which were full of sinister disclosures.

  16. On receiving the dispatches from Rush recounting these interesting conferences, President Monroe took counsel with the two Virginia oracles, Jefferson and Madison.

  17. There was so much dashing to and fro, so many orders relayed, so many dispatches delivered that I thought I might have been witnessing an outofdate Civilwar play instead of a peacetime action of the California National Guard.

  18. By other documents taken it was shown that supplies from Quebec were frequently passing to the Indians, and that the dispatches addressed to Cornwallis were intercepted and forwarded to the governor of Quebec.

  19. Be this as it will, he set out for Madrid with such Dispatches committed to his Care as contain'd the Fortunes of a great Number of People.

  20. Fabricius, hating the villainy of the man, and disposing the other consul to the same opinion, sent dispatches immediately to Pyrrhus to caution him against the treason.

  21. Lee dispatches that he had no fighting Saturday and Sunday.

  22. The dispatches I cut from the papers to-day are interesting.

  23. I hear nothing of all this at the department; but the absence of dispatches there is now interpreted as bad news!

  24. Johnston dispatches from the West that the meat is so indifferent, the soldiers must have an additional quantity of rice.

  25. This afternoon dispatches were received from Charleston.

  26. I have seen a New York Herald of the 3d, with dispatches of the 1st and 2d inst.

  27. We have dispatches to-day from Western Virginia, giving hope of the capture of Averill and his raiders.

  28. I forgot to mention the fact that some weeks ago I received a work in manuscript from London, sent thither before the war, and brought by a bearer of dispatches from our Commissioner, Hon.

  29. Lee requests that all dispatches passing between his headquarters and the War Department be in cipher.

  30. He says nothing more; but he may have sent dispatches to the President, which he is not at liberty to divulge.

  31. I wrote down the above information and sent it to the President; and understood that dispatches were transmitted immediately to Gen.

  32. Lee's dispatches to the President have been withheld from publication during the last four days.

  33. All dispatches should have the day written out in full as well as the day of the month, for the salvation of a city might depend on it.

  34. There was no news of Andy in the papers the next day, though there were cable dispatches speculating on what might have happened to him and the airship.

  35. In Shopton the dispatches created no little comment, and it was said that Mr. Foger was going to start for Africa at once to rescue his son.

  36. By these dispatches I saw into the stupidity of the English Cabinet far more than I otherwise could have done, and I renewed my former design.

  37. The fact, however, is as I have stated it, for the dispatches came into my hands, and I read them.

  38. An English packet from Falmouth to New York, with the Government dispatches on board, was brought into L'orient.

  39. His dispatches were written in cipher, and during all these years it has been impossible to copy or use them for want of a key to the cipher.

  40. Baschet, the editor, suggests that the publication of the French diplomatic dispatches relative to the council would be of the highest interest.

  41. So also in the case before us, although the mean envy excited in Randolph by the accomplished and nobly-born young Frenchman is perfectly clear, Mr. Froude gives us the English envoy's dispatches as testimony not to be questioned.

  42. The dispatches of various foreign ministers in London at the time fully establish the fact of his death.

  43. These dispatches would certainly form one of the most curious literary monuments of the sixteenth century, and, in point of fact, the history of the latter period of the council cannot well be written without them.

  44. Captain Jack Scranton, with dispatches from Captain Pickett to General Harney, reached Olympia the next day, and at once forwarded the dispatches by special messenger to General Harney at Vancouver.

  45. It is only by careful study of the reports of division, brigade, and regimental commanders, and of the dispatches on the field, that the shifting struggle can be traced out.

  46. The daring expressman's story of how he ran the gauntlet of the hostile tribes with the dispatches and information upon which depended the lives of the party heightened the impression made by his wretched appearance and doleful tidings.

  47. Aiken's trip to Washington with the dispatches for the government there, brings freshly to mind the intense excitement of those days, and it contains some very striking touches of description of the state of things at Washington.

  48. The dispatches were laid before us; and so much violence ensued that he had to turn us all out of doors.

  49. The following dispatches show how widespread was its fury: Buffalo, September 12.

  50. The horseman drew up, and replied promptly-- "A messenger from General Shields, with dispatches for Colonel Hopkins.

  51. He longed to know what those dispatches signified, but his curiosity had to remain unsatisfied, and he went back to his tent to try to sleep, as well as he could, for the biting wind that forced its way into every crevice.

  52. They had, however, no better success than the other boat, for as soon as they reached the surf, the boat capsized, and the two officers swam to the shore with the dispatches tied round their necks.

  53. As the dispatches confided to Captain Palmer were of great moment, he determined to run every hazard rather than retard their delivery.

  54. Upon the arrival of the dispatches in England, Lieutenant Burgess was promoted to the rank of commander.

  55. I came from the king after dinner; and their majesties both told me, that things stood precisely as they did before the receipt of the dispatches from London and Vienna.

  56. There was, evidently, more to be transacted at the court of Naples, than a mere delivery of these dispatches from Lord Hood, or Captain Nelson would scarcely have been selected for the business.

  57. As I have Bonaparte's dispatches before me, which I took yesterday, I speak positively.

  58. Accordingly, after receiving the kindest condolences from the Earl of St. Vincent, and sending into Cadiz the dispatches of the worthy governor of Santa Cruz, he immediately sailed for England.

  59. Captain Capel, who is charged with my dispatches for England, will give you every information.

  60. He thinks that the two men who saved the dispatches ought to have a pecuniary reward.

  61. The dispatches to England, however, were unable to be forwarded, for several days.

  62. The drafts of the dispatches under the above-mentioned three heads will be wired to you beforehand.

  63. Dispatches from Peking say that England and France have already started a flanking movement to induce China to join the anti-German coalition.

  64. European and American newspapers will be full of special dispatches about the complicated events in China, and martial law will be declared in every part of the country.

  65. Nevertheless De Comines put a brave face on the matter, and told the council that he had already received information of the league and had sent dispatches to his master on the subject.

  66. The dispatches of the Venetian ambassadors, again, are trustworthy, seeing they were always written with political intention and not for the sake of gossip.

  67. By cable and radio International News Service dispatches are sent to sixteen foreign nations in both hemispheres.

  68. His presence, tho', is not the best of him; he has fine partes, and dispatches all his buissiness himself with the greatest exactness.

  69. Their conduct, however, did not trouble me, and I forgot all about it as I walked up to present my dispatches to his lordship.

  70. While the ship lay there I was sent, on the 25th, with dispatches to Lord Howe, then residing on Staten Island.

  71. These dispatches are all sent and must be answered in Turkish.

  72. While conscious of a restlessness on this score, we began to be mystified by the nature and text of dispatches from committees at home: "Contributors object to Turkish distribution.

  73. This was only one of the scores of dispatches reaching us within the few following weeks, and I repeat it here, not as having any special significance, excepting to show the uncertainty and utter instability of all human calculations.

  74. All dispatches which we send will go openly through your own telegraph, and I should be glad if all that we shall write could be seen by your government.

  75. The first days brought in dispatches and letters to the amount of about a hundred a day, tendering sympathy, offering help, and giving notice of material and money sent.


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