Courier

(n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

(n.) An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

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• The _Times_ newspaper, which greatly exceeds the size of the _Courier_, is now printed by a machine at the rate of 13,000 an hour. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Prentice, then editor of the Courier-Journal, and Mr. Tyler, of the Associated Press. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They had arrived with the carriage and courier at the Erbprinz Hotel, the best of the town, and the whole party dined at the table d'hote. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The Courier in the rumble was not altogether comfortable in his mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The author remembers to have seen the _Globe_ newspaper printed by an old wooden press in 1820; and, about the same time, the London _Courier_, by a Stanhope press. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Nous allons avoir une belle traversee, Monsieur George, said the courier with a grin, as he lifted his gold-laced cap. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I remained at Burnsville with a detachment of about 900 men from Ord's command and communicated with my two wings by courier. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The _Stilbro' Courier_ had given every particular, with amplifications. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The courier had told him that only Mrs. Casaubon was at home, but he said he was a relation of Mr. Casaubon's: would she see him? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But we'se hev a column and a half i' th' _Stilbro' Courier_ ower this job, as it is, I dare say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Advance couriers must have told of his coming. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Does my lord carry bravos for couriers, and stilettos in the fourgons? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They were brought into these foreign towns in the custody of couriers and local followers, just as the debtors had been brought into the prison. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When Morocco is in a state of war, Arab couriers carry letters through the country and charge a liberal postage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The armies and couriers of Marcus Aurelius drudged along the roads exactly as the armies of Scipio Africanus had done three centuries before them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From world to world His couriers fly, Thought-winged and shod with fire; The angel of His stormy sky Rides down the sunken wire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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