Literary notes about dispatch (AI summary)
The term "dispatch" is employed in literature with a rich versatility, ranging from the transmission of messages to the swift execution of actions. Authors use it to denote the sending of written reports or orders in military and formal settings, as in dispatches notifying of strategic movements [1][2][3]. At the same time, it captures the notion of rapid completion or elimination of tasks, lending an air of urgency to both mundane and critical affairs [4][5]. Shakespeare and his contemporaries often imbued the word with a dual sense of communication and immediate, even lethal, action [6][7][8], illustrating its capacity to convey both informative and emphatic intent.
- So it was decided to send a dispatch to the staff.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - I am in hopes of receiving a dispatch from you to-day announcing that you have moved.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The next morning while at Front Royal, Sheridan received a dispatch from Wright, saying that a dispatch from Longstreet to Early had been intercepted.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - He made so much haste to dispatch his Business, that he neither gave himself time to clean his Pencils, nor 1 mix his Colours.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele - And so home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to bed. 3rd.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys - They have dispatch'd with Pompey; he is gone; The other three are sealing.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king Come here himself to question our delay; For he is footed in this land already.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
