How To Use Errand In A Sentence

Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
Seeking to be so is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
Also known as Endi or Errandi, Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons, unlike other varieties of silk. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
I was a little unnoticed "shaver" -- the errand boy of the house -- not quite ten years old. My Own Life Story
To run errands without getting the evil eye from the snotty salesgirl. Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother

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A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.
The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand.
When the Calcutta intelligence chief suggested someone go on an “errand-boy visit” to check out the neighboring MO operation in Kandy, Betty had immediately put her name forward in hopes of seeing her friend again. A Covert Affair
If the answer is yes, try to combine several errands in one trip.
Refineries in South Africa say they are overwhelmed by orders from Germany for Krugerrand gold coins. Euro crisis: only root-and-branch financial reform can tame the wolf pack
My errand will remain undone for another day, milk stockpiling and likely to go to waste in the fridge for a lack of freezer bags, check undeposited. Stockholm Syndrome Would Be Welcome
After Claire excused herself to run her unspecified "errand" - making Roger shudder only slightly-he and Brianna had driven to the pub, but then decided to wait for their supper, since the evening was unexpectedly fine. Dragonfly in Amber
She sewed and chatted with the wardrobe staff in the theater basement and tirelessly ran errands for the performers.
Dwarves, all wearing brightly coloured pointy hats, hurried pass on all manner of errands.
More than a necessary evil, it has become a mandatory fool's errand.
The cracking of the postillions ' whips, and the velocity with which they drove up to the door, brought out every man, woman and child, to gaze at the new comers, whose appearance sufficiently bespoke their errand.
I asked other parents when they began leaving their children alone, either for a short errand or during after-school hours.
Finally, she reported that she could have my car picked up and serviced, and that, with the $10-per-hour copayment for errands, the cost would be $35.
She went from running errands to running his life, convincing him that she should manage his affairs and business matters.
I stained my eyebrows with some of the dye common in the harem; concealed my female attire beneath a magnificent pelisse, lined with sables, which fastened from my chin to my feet; pulled a fez low upon my brow; and I sallied forth on my adventurous errand. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
Mitterrand had been suffering from prostate cancer for several years, for which he underwent surgery twice.
Using your bike for errands is a great way to do your little part to save the world.
However, Cresson's popularity immediately began to dip, as did Mitterrand's own ratings once the temporary boost of the Gulf War disappeared.
Picking and choosing from such a list is a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
Krugerrand sales and gold-futures trading begin in the U.S. Golden Years
Then, on his way to his office at Milwaukee's County Stadium, the baseball commissioner stopped to do a family errand.
Nay what are all errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms, if we will interpret them kindly, but the blinkard dazzlements and staggerings to and fro of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for, by a path he cannot yet find? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs. Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception
How can I find the latest prices for Krugerrands and gold sovereigns?
I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
Others claimed they had been accidentally caught up in the riots while running errands or had been trying to rescue people from the burning embassy. Times, Sunday Times
He left her feeling oddly light-footed, pleased to have an errand from her. COLDHEART CANYON
She made her brother run some little errands for her.
Ay, it is Neepoosa," the old woman replied, drawing her inside the tent, and despatching a boy, hot-footed, on some errand. CHAPTER 2
I soon go look after the errands and I will try to see if I can post before I flash out of here for Tobago tomorrow.
He believed with those who say that the men who dares the 'tempests' wrath, 'and the' billows 'madden'd play' on the errand of saving life, to be as great heroes as those who 'seek for bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth.' The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
They are meeting for the eighth time and Spain, winners in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2009, will still be smarting from defeat in the quarter-finals last year in Clermont-Ferrand. National pride provides fuel for Djokovic and Nadal
His slogan as a Socialist in the shadow of the Mitterrand years was the freedom to invent!
However, an account of his errand is brought to the king of Nineveh, not by way of information against Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The whole reference of his errand seemed to mark her for Strether as by this time consentingly familiar to him, and nothing yet had so despoiled her of a special shade of consideration. The Ambassadors
But you'll find yourself admired, too, if you wear one while in your sweats and sneaks while out running errands.
It is then that Redg, Ailill's satirist, went to him on an errand to seek the javelin, that is, Cuchulainn's spear. Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
And both of you on the same errand and demanding the same information, no doubt: cui bono? Wicked Will
The next day, he had two errands to run - one was to the post office to mail Laurie's letter.
In that night, a vision came to him, not a vision of glory and honor won on the battlefield, but a vision of a sword rusting away in its scabbard, a vision of run - ning errands and posting guard detail over dust and ashes that didn't need guarding. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi’ a landlouper like that. Guy Mannering
: when Thatcher feasted Mitterrand or Chirac 'rosbif' was always on the menu. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Danielle Mitterrand, wife of longtime leader Francois Mitterrand, was a well-known activist.
Danielle Mitterrand, wife of longtime leader Francois Mitterrand, was a well-known activist.
Although from different ends of the political spectrum, Mr Kohl and Mitterrand enjoyed a long-standing and close personal friendship.
These foreigners with a false sense of bravado play this game by consuming comestibles not prepared in keeping with standard hygeinic practices most of us have come to expect and demand and this becomes a game lacking in rational thought and more about that later but for now I must run an errand for my better half before she whups my ass so I will continue this posting later. On Crossing the MoMo Bridge
When Hugh was gone, with his own cares to keep him fully occupied, and his errand in friendship faithfully discharged, Cadfael damped down his brazier with turves, closed his workshop, and went away to the church. A River So Long
Most of the time I just answer the phones and file papers and run small errands.
If he come to see me" (as it has always been reckoned a piece of neighbourly kindness to visit the sick) "he speaks vanity; that is, he pretends friendship, and that his errand is to mourn with me and to comfort me; he tells me he is very sorry to see me so much indisposed, and wishes me my health; but it is all flattery and falsehood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Alain and Enguerrand were ushered up the grand staircase, lined with tiers of costly exotics as if for a fete; but in that and in all kinds of female luxury, the Duchesse lived in a state of _fete perpetuelle_. The Parisians — Volume 05
a sleeveless errand
Malden's character in the program, Mike Stone, employed a legman played by Art Metrano with that name, who did various errands. Archive 2009-06-28
Here was President Mitterrand, the great goat of French politics, paying her, the grocer's daughter, the greatest of compliments.
The quiet of Shrewsbury Abbey is shattered when Brother Oswin, sent on an errand to deliver medicines, is discovered in a nearby forest, beaten within an inch of his life.
A: Commuter miles are generally easier on a car than stop-and-go driving on short errands. Matching the 1996 Honda Odyssey
There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg - foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose. Catriona
Tom makes himself handy to the couple, running errands and serving as a de facto gofer.
This time, Jacques and Toto made a “blind drop” southeast of Clermont-Ferrand, with no reception committee on the ground that the enemy might find. Wild Bill Donovan
You run errands for a couple of people, and these errands let you be a delivery boy most of the time.
-- In His name verily I come, and upon His errand; and the love and duty I bear unto my godfather and uncle have added wings, in a sort, unto my zeal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
In an age when the Air Force budget looks to increase only marginally, if at all, while simultaneously planning to buy several other major aircraft (new aerial tankers, new transports, new heavy bombers, and new helicopters), this plan to distend the fighter-bomber budget is a fool's errand. Winslow T. Wheeler: What Now, Icarus? Is Western Combat Aviation Falling Out of the Sky?
Looking out the belly hatch of the Halifax that night, Jacques and Toto had spotted lights flickering on the ground from the resistance fighters waiting near Clermont-Ferrand to receive them. Wild Bill Donovan
Next week he'll be in Florida for consultations with President Mitterrand.
My mother asked me to go on an errand - she wanted me to buy some food.
Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay for our automobility—they kill the equivalent of a dozen jumbo-jet crashes every day—plus the countless number of hours we waste in gridlock traffic commuting to work, running errands, picking up our kids, and searching for parking, and we can't help but ask: Haven't we had enough already? Autophobia
Mr O'Brien told investigators in 1975 that on the day Hoffa vanished, he borrowed a car belonging to Giacolone's son to run some errands.
It wad look unco-like, I thought, just to be sent out on a hunt-the-gowk errand wi 'a landlouper like that. Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
People walked by on the sidewalks, running errands, trying to get home before the storm broke.
By night the dictator had the knights occupy in advance the Capitol and the remaining points of vantage, and at dawn he sent to Mælius Gaius Servilius, master of the horse, to summon him pretendedly on some other errand. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form
I have been so motivated to make these beautiful dresses from the material that I have on hand, but I am already looking forward to the day when I can buy new fabric (that is more feminine!) so when my husband (forced) me to run an errand this morning, we were also able to run into Hobby Lobby (just to look ...). Home Living
I may not know much, but I think I know a little bit about compositional practice — studying to be a composer is a lot of investigating how the old masters got from point A to point B, or even how they got to point A in the first place — and I can say that any attempt to generalize the way great works have come into being is a fool's errand. Spark plugs and transmissions
President Mitterrand arrived in Hanoi yesterday to bury old colonial and cold war enmities.
M. Ferrand survives where his English counterpart has disappeared because change has not overwhelmed him with the suddenness that it has overtaken his analogues in Britain.
Cain had made that very clear when he had shanghaied them for this little errand.
Whereupon Salih arose and, kissing the ground a second time, said, “O King of the Age, my errand is to Allah and the magnanimous liege lord and the valiant lion, the report of whose good qualities the caravans far and near have dispread and whose renown for benefits and beneficence and clemency and graciousness and liberality to all climes and countries hath sped.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The most popular: A 1980 gold South African Krugerrand, which pulled in 51 bids and sold for $1,275. Free shipping! Rhode Island's eBay play
A 1oz South African krugerrand costs about €275 and a British sovereign about €110.
Use this forgotten vacation time to finish last-minute details and errands.
The charity Counsel and Care urged the public to check on elderly neighbours and to offer them assistance with shopping and other errands. Times, Sunday Times
It also served as a lever to check any possible German drift to neutralism, and Mitterrand addressed the Bundestag on 20 January 1983 to urge acceptance of the American missiles on their soil.
The FBI also searched Nozette's safe deposit box at a bank in San Diego, California, where they discovered 55 gold "Krugerrand" coins worth a total of $US50,000 ($A55,635) and $US30,000 Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
The Kickapoo was an eccentric person who was apt to turn up anywhere on the llano on some outlandish errand that no other Indian would bother about. Comanche Moon
Nay, said she, I may not, for I have an errand which driveth me on; wherefore I must be gone within this hour. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
An officer who wants to take it easy, for example, or run personal errands can do so with virtual impunity.
She sewed and chatted with the wardrobe staff in the theater basement and tirelessly ran errands for the performers.
Under Mitterrand, it was the wealth tax. Under Mr Jospin, it was Ms Aubry's 35-hour working week.
I spent the morning running errands
Daily errands will include providing meals, responding to calls for attention and overseeing visits by relatives.
But there are also stories of students who run errands, make photocopies and play computer games, only to later pad their resumes.
“Monna Paula was frightened,” answered Margaret, “and did not know how to set about the errand, for you know she scarce ever goes out of doors — and so — and so — I agreed to go with her to give her courage; and, for the dress, I am sure you remember I wore it at a Christmas mumming, and you thought it not unbeseeming.” The Fortunes of Nigel
To shopping and trivial errands they do not react, but if my intention is to take then for a walk, they become bouncing bundles of excitement. Times, Sunday Times
Does not she walk as if she were running errands? Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Bigger houses on bigger lots mean neighborhoods stretch beyond walking distance for doing errands.
I had an early morning errand to run before work, and was a little unsteady from a sleepless night. Daily Tea: April 1st, 2010 | Tea Derivations
He cast himself in the mould of his mentor Francois Mitterrand.
However, her younger brother's tutor agreed to the errand on her behalf when he discovered that Mary had been listening to his lessons and was not totally absorbed in her stitchery.
It was her job to answer the telephone, prepare coffee for her boss's visitors, and run errands.
Anyone who hunts for a pizza-enjoying subsystem in a human being is on a fool's errand, and anyone who denies that a supersystem understands Chinese on the grounds that none of its subsystems do is making the same error moving in the other direction. The Myth of the Computer: An Exchange
Errand's contest between humanity and the forces of darkness is one of the seminal dance/theater portraits of the age.
Some ca 'thepleugh, fome herd, fome tentie rin Acannie errand to a neebor town: Roach's Beauties: Of the Modern Poets of Great Britain Carefully Selected ...
Might have sent me on the same errand by daylight, mightn’t he? opulento homini hoc servitus dura est, hoc magis miser est divitis servos noctesque diesque assiduo satis superque est, quod facto aut dicto adeost opus, quietus ne sis. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
It involves French President François Mitterrand and the ortolan, the small bird known in this country as the bunting.
You just need to do a couple of short errands, so you don't feel it is necessary to buckle up.
She is always on at me for money and running errands. The Sun
Street vendors displayed colourful wares of fruits to crowds of people out for walks or errands.
I seemed to spend my life running errands for people.
We're all on a fool's errand, credit card in hand.
I ran menial errands, tasted everything, and feigned indifference towards the whole process.
Thus we see, that the term Satan is in the Old Testament applied to any Angel of the Lord sent upon an errand of punishment. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
It is known around town that Emily Grierson has not had guests in her home for the past decade, except her black servant who runs errands for her to and from the market. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.
There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other side, and hold a nose. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
The term Satan signifies an adversary, and is applied to any angel sent upon an errand of punishment For example, Numbers xxii. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
Though God had here a splendid retinue of holy angles about his throne, who were ready to go on his errands, yet he passes them all by, and pitches on Ezekiel, a son of man, to be his messenger to the house of Israel; for we have this treasure in earthen vessels, and God's messages sent us by men like ourselves, whose terror shall not make us afraid nor their hand be heavy upon us. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
My superior self was on a quixotic errand!
But besides his mere external graces the poodle rendered important service by performing errands intrusted to him. Archive 2009-04-01
Later that afternoon, Jacques, his sore ankle aching, set out for Clermont-Ferrand. Wild Bill Donovan
The comedown was horrible because I wanted to sleep and instead I had to be running around doing errands.
The big demijohn in the stern-sheets told his errand. Chapter 11
I have a short errand to run, then I'll reschedule my meeting with Mark and plunge back into the fray.
The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands. Together
Away went these upon their errand to the sea, and then came back the grating roar and plashy jerks of launching, the plunging, and the gurgling, and the quiet murmur of cleft waves. Mary Anerley
Before games, she had to make sure all the shakos had plumes, help set up or load equipment, and run any other errands, and during the games, she ran flags for me and the other guard members.
With all the errands your father sends him to fetch, it is quite easy for him to send word to me.
Within a short space of time he had become an unofficial political errand boy for the administration and a co-partner in its crimes.
Rackingly above the crash and lilt of music, the quick, wild thud of dancing feet, the sharp, staccato notes of laughter -- she heard the dull, heavy, unrhythmical tread of the oncoming years -- gray years, limping eternally from to-morrow on, through unloved lands, on unloved errands. Little Eve Edgarton
My certy, ye dinna let the grass grow under your feet," said the Highlander; and he added, "If ye want to run errands, laddie, ye can come back again. Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough
Danielle Mitterrand, wife of longtime leader Francois Mitterrand, was a well-known activist.
His errand - running capacity also improved.
This ought to be remembered in prayer, because one great errand we have to the throne of grace, is, to pray for the pardon of our sins: and care about it ought to be our daily care, because prayer is a part of our daily work. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
That implies a contract of service, a master-servant relationship - the person is carrying an errand on behalf of someone and is being directed by him or her.
The errand is short, but with the temperature so low every step I take is a great sacrifice. Yoani Sanchez: What We Wouldn't Do for a Piece of Bread and A Glass of Milk
There were errands to look after, and usually a pig, and sometimes two, that accumulated adipose on purslane and lamb's-quarters, with surplus clams for dessert, also quahaugs to preserve the poetic unities. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
He wouldn't normally have agreed to run errands for his cousin but she was doing most of the cooking these days.
Precious metals are accepted in various forms; from small ingots to bars weighing 100 kilos (220 pounds) as well as gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion coins like the popular American Eagle, South African Krugerrand and Canadian Maple Leaf. Another Gold Rush for Wilmington Depository : Coin Collecting News
Peter Jackson undertook what seemed like a fool's errand and dared to film the unfilmable.
The only reasons to leave the house were to run important errands or visit relatives. Times, Sunday Times
Children are expected to help carry water, collect firewood, and run errands for their mothers.
Mitterrand had picked Magoudi after asking intelligence agents to investigate him.
Patricia Terrand then became another salesgirl at a huge mall.
Mr Kohl has denied the allegations of an illegal Mitterrand connection.
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There might David Balfour hang, and other lads pass on their errands and think light of him; and old daft limmers sit at a leg-foot and spae their fortunes; and the clean genty maids go by, and look to the other aide, and hold a nose. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
I spent yesterday at work avoiding my bald, ogrish boss, Steve, lest I be sent on more pointless and menial errands. Bard Diary Entry
Suppose he has some urgent errand to run or a colleague suggests lunch together. The Sun
Then it was errands - packing up mom, breakfast, airport run, Target for a new diaper pail, putting together the crib, re-stocking diaper changing stations, cleaning up car, feeding animals, and comforting the Poopster during another crabby time during which she puked down the front of my blouse - now its time to work and my brain is mushie. Charmed
It would have been a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
He often ran errands for Fong in return for jelly beans or small cubes of greasy homemade soap.
There is no office secretary to answer calls or take messages, no student assistants to run errands.
On one of our last days we found ourselves in a church we'd never heard of, the abbey of Mozac near Clermont-Ferrand.
They can run errands worth various numbers of points, but they must make time for these errands by feeding their meter.
Later that afternoon, after he'd run all his errands, Clay walked back to the boarding house.
My mother asked me to go on an errand - she wanted me to buy some food.
Personnel often left meetings to run errands or fetch documents, he said. Times, Sunday Times
I must praise the men who were engaged in this business, for they were not only teamsters, but errand boys -- expressmen we would call them now -- as well as purchasers of provender and general commercial agents of the Association; and their combined tasks were hard and difficult. Brook Farm
Zack and I went home and spent the morning doing yardwork, raking up the wet leaves that littered our backyard, and the afternoon running errands and grocery shopping.
These national chains typically carry popular dairy basics like milk, cheese, sour cream, ice cream, and butter for consumers running errands or between supermarket trips.
He was tired of running errands for his sister.
It was the excuse that he had been using more and more lately to explain his mysterious foreign errands.
M. d'Agen's gloomy rage and the fiery gleam in Maignan's eye would have reminded me, had I been in any danger of forgetting the errand on which we were bound, and the need, exceeding all other needs, which compelled us to lose no moment that might be used. A Gentleman of France
They acted as a kind of police force, doing errands for the king, executing his justice and collecting his taxes.
Their car mileage also tended to remain high because they still ran errands that they used to carry out during their commute. Times, Sunday Times
When Proposition 215 was first passed, California attorney general Dan Lungren, a conservative Republican, issued an opinion defining the term narrowly and limiting it to family members or home-care aides who cooked, cleaned, ran errands, drove patients to doctors 'appointments and did personal care. LA IMC
And you, Miss Debenham, also came here on an errand of mercy and redemption, to save your old playfellow ? LION IN THE VALLEY
Besides, wise elder, there is thine errand to see to; and if I be the God of Love, as thou sayest, I must not keep thee and thy valiant fellows languishing mateless; so with thy leave I will now depart, that I may send you a score of fair damsels for your company. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
It was the type of errand Christine was unaccustomed to perform and plainly foreign to her recognized duties; but it was difficult to be unobliging and refuse, so she took the letters and the list and departed. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
MANY of us in business spend our lives trying to predict the future, but we are mostly on a fool 's errand. Times, Sunday Times
But you'll find yourself admired, too, if you wear one while in your sweats and sneaks while out running errands.
~To this my errand~, etc., _i. e._ in comparison with this errand of mine and the anxiety it involved. Milton's Comus
We as adults are so bombarded with errands to run, bills to pay, mortgage to scamper for, laundry to do, plus maintaining a full-time job (and yes, you can call us superwomen if you like) we often forget to frolic every once in awhile.
The monarchy of de Gaulle was followed by a diarchy with Pompidou, Giscard d' Estaing, and early Mitterrand, where the president and prime minister were from the same party; since 1986, cohabitation has altered this diarchy.
Louisa May Alcott spent the day of December 12 in Boston doing errands, going to the dentist to get a tooth filled, and rushing from office to office, trying to unsnarl the bureaucratic obstacles to getting her credentials as a nurse and to buying her series of tickets for the trip. Louisa May Alcott
You take me on errands to the bank, the cleaners, the pharmacy, and everyone on the street knows you.
His regular work was heavy enough, splitting all the wood for the camp, carrying water and packing lunch to the men, but his hazers sent him on all kinds of wild goose errands to all parts of the works, looking for a "left-handed peavy" or a "bundle of cross-hauls. The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan
It's a fool's errand to try to psychoanalyse someone based on an hour in their company.
He was tired of running errands for his sister.
Don't run errands after work. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
Mr Kohl has denied the allegations of an illegal Mitterrand connection.
Mitterrand had ambiguous relations with money, the power of which he regularly lambasted.
I felt someone stalking me when I was walking home from the errand that my mom sent me on.
Casey Mason was on a shopping errand on her bicycle when she was involved in an accident with a lorry at Stockbridge, Keighley.
He argued that any _human_ being living in the cave would require sustenance, and of course would purchase it at his fort, which was the only one where the necessaries of life could be procured for many miles around; but he knew every one who came to him, and no stranger had ever come on such an errand; he therefore concluded with an appealing look to the moollah who was with us. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
The government still has the power to ban private ownership of bulk gold coins like the Krugerrand ‚ American Eagle and similar types of gold bullion coins. 14 Fundamental Reasons Why You Should Be Investing Your Money . . . In Money : Coin Collecting News
If I get tired -- if when you come back, you don't find me, just conclude, "capriciously," I have gone on some little errand of my own. Half A Chance
During World War II, Mitterrand began the break with conservative orthodoxy that resulted in his becoming France's most influential Socialist politician.
I shall list my errands on a card.
On an errand to the school to deliver a packet of hand-bills advertising the wax-works, Nell meets up with the school proprietress and her teachers and pupils, lined up, books open, about to take their morning walk.
After a decent interval the roommate should disappear on an errand or into his room for an extended period. 12.
The CGT Transport union says protests also shut down the Clermont-Ferrand airport in the south and disrupted airports in Nice and Nantes. France Riots Disrupt Airport Travel In Paris & Beyond
His boat the sampan on which he worked as a helper and errand-boy had been found to need repairs after sailing up the Irrawaddy from the Bay of Bengal. Excerpt: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Lugging the heavy bags the more than nine miles to Clermont-Ferrand would be impossible, so they decided to bury the suitcase with the radios in a vineyard they saw near their pinpoint, whose earth had been freshly turned. Wild Bill Donovan
The officer in charge of the picket, suddenly remembering that Major Burrage, of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts, was taken prisoner some time since by the enemy while on a similar errand, 'gobbled' the rebel, who proved to be the famous Roger A. Pryor, ex-member of Congress and ex-brigadier-general of My day : reminiscences of a long life,
Twice a Standard thrust them aside as he hastened on his errand, ashine in the livery of the state or a private master. Starfarers
I seemed to spend my life running errands for people.

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