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Examples
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How is that for an economic populist message-bearer.
Biden Offers Testament To Obama's Character And Toughness 2009
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It would not be the first time that Reno had played message-bearer.
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson
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Little is it to be wondered at that, as the lad was often his father's message-bearer to the Duke, he found favor in the eyes of the Duke's only daughter, Sofia; and still less is it to be wondered at that he early became her thrall.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Miss Gordon's message-bearer drew back somewhat disconcerted by her reception.
Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown
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[47] When a lad from the village of Ch´üeh was made message-bearer, some one asked, saying: Is it because he has made progress?
XIV 1909
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But Helmholtz readily demonstrated the contrary, showing that the nerve cord is a relatively sluggish message-bearer.
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At their head, as message-bearer for the doctor, was Karl, the secretary that Ferragut had seen in the great old house of the district of Chiaja.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Abdelhaleem maintained he did nothing to advance the plot, describing himself as the "mailman" or message-bearer between mastermind Zakaria Amara and undercover police agent Shaher Elsohemy, who was to supply the bomb-making chemicals.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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Abdelhaleem maintained he did nothing to advance the plot, describing himself as the "mailman" or message-bearer between mastermind Zakaria Amara and undercover police agent Shaher Elsohemy, who was to supply the bomb-making chemicals.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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As potentially appalled as I was for Elizabeth Edwards, as potentially amazed as I was by what would have to be John Edwards 'colossal arrogance, what disturbed me most was the possibility that I may have been played for a chump, that I had been as politically naïve as any greenhorn who'd just fallen off the turnip truck, that my belief in Edwards -- not just in the message, but in the message-bearer -- demonstrated that, for all my years of accumulating a justifiable cynicism, I was still susceptible to the stagecraft of political authenticity.
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