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emissary

/ˈɛmɪˌsɛɹi/ nom C2

En français : émissaire

  1. An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
  2. Such an agent spreading a gospel. · Near-synonym: missionary
  3. A venous channel in the skull.
  4. An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.

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upon the card by the dead body might stand for Vermissa Valley, or that this very valley which sends forth emissaries of murder may be that Valley of Fear of which we have heard.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
He was very well known to the customs officers of the coast; and as there was between these worthies and himself a perpetual battle of wits, he had at first thought that Dantès might be an emissary of these industrious guardians of rights and duties, who perhaps employed this ingenious means of learning some of the secrets of his trade.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 234 · C1
“Oh dear, yes, sir; the abbé’s dungeon was forty or fifty feet distant from that of one of Bonaparte’s emissaries,—one of those who had contributed the most to the return of the usurper in 1815, a very resolute and very dangerous man.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 319 · C1
Brunhilda and Fredegund were the results of the painful struggle of civilization in its infancy, when man was learning to control mind, were it even by an emissary from the realms of darkness.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 817 · C1

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