news-bringer

He let that go, and for the time the talk was of the doings at Wartrace Hall: of the professor's enthusiastic digging for fossils, of Patricia's keen enjoyment of the life in the open, and -- this put with gentle hesitation on the part of the news-bringer -- of Mrs. Honoria's growing affection for the young woman whose ambitions reached out toward a sociological career.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

None of these had as yet so much as imagined what a telegraphic news-bringer might be, and so they could not even wish that they had one, or they would surely have done so.

Ahead of the Army William Osborn Stoddard 1880

"She's left us this time, she's really gone," and the excited news-bringer burst into tears.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Their wives and daughters at home, meanwhile, were equally in a state of expectation, and whatever they might be doing kept ears and eyes on the alert for the step on the gravel and the click of the latch which betokened the arrival of the family news-bringer.

Clover Susan Coolidge 1870

"Can't get on any further to-night?" asked a quiet old gentleman of the news-bringer.

Queechy 1854

"Can't get on any further to-night?" asked a quiet old gentleman of the news-bringer.

Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

"Can't get on any further to-night?" asked a quiet old gentleman of the news-bringer.

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

a voice ought to be choked in the water-works; (Ibid.) -- had not the news-bringer quickly fled.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838