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  • How is that for an economic populist message-bearer.

    Biden Offers Testament To Obama's Character And Toughness 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • Miss Gordon's message-bearer drew back somewhat disconcerted by her reception.

    Heart of Gold Ruth Alberta Brown

  • [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

  • But Helmholtz readily demonstrated the contrary, showing that the nerve cord is a relatively sluggish message-bearer.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Marty Kaplan: On Having Your (Political) Heart Broken 2008

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