SYN: Courier, carrier, emissary, harbinger, herald, forerunner.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[4074] Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est , he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Inter auxilia multa adhibita, duo visa sunt remedium adferre, usus seri caprini cum extracto Hellebori, et irrigatio ex lacte
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Various devices, known as “storm cards,” “cyclonoscopes,” etc., have been used to aid in the process of locating a storm from shipboard observations.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

There have been but few, if any, on the long list of Popes and Anti-Popes, who were not themselves dabblers and traffickers in politics; and there is scarcely one among them whose private history does not show him to be an abettor and an accomplice in the vilest crimes and immoralities; so much and so deeply so, that we are astounded at the single inquiry how such characters could ever have obtained influence over any portion of their fellow-beings.
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

Dexter, the chairman of the state campaign committee, entered, his thin face still shadowed by gloomy thoughts.
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It did not seem possible that this frail old [213] woman with the snowy-white hair and sunken cheeks could ever have been a rosy child like herself.
— from Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Of course, if they had been aware that Dickie Deer Mouse was hidden inside his rebuilt, last year's bird's nest, either of them, with his sharp claws, could easily have torn the moss roof off Dickie's home.
— from The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse by Arthur Scott Bailey

In all questions, therefore, he was subtle and profuse, whilst the other in his answer was perspicuous, brief, and to the point If two such characters could ever have been united in the same person, he would be the best hand at disputation that our times have produced.
— from Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Arthur O. Norton

Tell the world his perfect skill Can conquer every human ill That lends to science or to art, From shattered limb to dormant heart.
— from Prison Poetry by Hiram Peck McKnight