Emissary

(noun.) someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.

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• I know the sort, said Mr. Hawley; some emissary. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• His emissary obeyed, and brought the desired intelligence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• This matter, in my belief, the Steyne emissary cried, ought to be buried in the most profound oblivion. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• I'm extremely sorry, sir, said this emissary, that a little accident has occurred at the Miss du Lacs': a leak in the water-tank. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• If you're an emissary you're an emissary. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• I had not been laid down five minutes, when another emissary arrived: Goton came, bringing me something to drink. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• The emissary, Madame Olenska rejoined, still smiling, might, for all I care, have left already; but he has insisted on waiting till this evening . 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• It was that of Eustacia's emissary. 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• They were strangers--emissaries from the large towns. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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