despatch

How To Use despatch In A Sentence

• Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety-fourth, beginning with the words Travels in Arabia
• Eventually it would have been picked up at about 3.00 am when a despatcher was doing some housekeeping on the system. Parklife « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
• He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
• So ended the memorable 14th of August: it will be, doubtless, remembered by many with far from pleasant feelings; and some who have been "gulled" in England may thank Mr. Petersen that a carrier-pigeon freighted with a cock-and-bull story of blood, fire, wreck, and murder, was not despatched on that memorable day. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
• So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
• Septach Melayn handed the despatch to Prestimion, who took it without looking at it and tossed it to a nearby table. LORD PRESTIMION
• Colonel Tilghman, one of my aids-de-camp, will have the (p.  088) honour to deliver these despatches to Your Excellency; he will be able to inform you of every minute circumstance which is particularly mentioned in my letter. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
• The party had considered the possibility of disaster for one man, and that had been the principal reason for despatching the two in different directions. Chapter VIII
• Brunt, following in, despatched a meaty drive into the far corner from near the edge of the area. Times, Sunday Times
• But at the moment when no precaution should have been relaxed, a despatch from the West India directors, who appear to have been misled by advices from London, announced that no danger need be apprehended from the English expedition, as it was sent out by the King only to settle the affairs of his colonies and establish episcopacy, which would rather benefit the company's interests in New Netherlands. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12