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Pope, was it, who used to look around upon the missives hurled at him, and say, "These are my amusement"? But they are not mine. I want you to like me and be good-natured. It is not that you must always agree with opinions, or not take exception to what is exceptionable; it is only that you shall not say things in a sour, cross, disagreeable way.
A royal messenger I come, charged by his grace my king my country's king with missives to his friends, calling on all who spurn a tyrant's yoke who love their land, their homes, their freedom on all who wish for Wallace to awake, arise, and join their patriot king!" "Of whom speakest thou, Sir Robert Keith?
The particular purpose of this nautical monster was to shoot up objects at short notice, such as a body of moving troops, a battery on the road, a train of ammunition wagons. It was concealed in a tunnel made for its specific use, and when it would discharge its missives of destruction it would first project itself from the tunnel, send the message, and then shoot back inside.
It has the same wonderful powers of flight, equal docility in confinement, and can be taught to love and obey its master. I have often wondered why falconry has not been revived, like other ancient sports. The Germans are said to have employed trained hawks to capture carrier-pigeons that were sent out with missives by the French during the siege of Paris.
In the first place, the Afghans would never allow you to come here; and if you should happen to reach here, you would never be able to get away again." These two very encouraging missives from our own people seem at first thought more heartless than even the "permission refused" of the Russians.
But France shall not have it; that I swear upon my knighthood. Write to France, my Lord Bishop of Cambrai, and tell King Louis that my daughter shall not marry his son. Waste no words, my Lord Bishop, in what you call courtesy. We need no double meaning in our missives." Those who heard the duke's words knew that he was committing a costly error, but no one dared to suggest as much.
While Wilkinson was inditing these misleading missives to the President, he was preparing the way for his entry at New Orleans. To the perplexed and alarmed Governor he wrote: "You are surrounded by dangers of which you dream not, and the destruction of the American Government is seriously menaced. The storm will probably burst in New Orleans, where I shall meet it, and triumph or perish!"
There was a substantial accumulation of folded missives in an educated man's hand, and another in a woman's; of which last the outermost being a folded sheet that made its own envelope showed a receipt postmark "Macquarie. June 24, 1807," and a less visible despatch-stamp "Darenth. Nov. 30, 1806," telling its tale of over six months on the road.
After countless trials and failures, they evolved the two following missives, which Condy posted that night: "Captain Jack. "SIR: I have perused with entire satisfaction your personal in 'The Times. I should like to know more of you. I read between the lines, and my perception ineradicably convinces me that you are honest and respectable.
She was afraid to raise her umbrella for fear a rain of tender missives would descend therefrom. Once he gave her a handsome jeweled bracelet which she wore under her sleeve. But he got hard up before the week was over and borrowed it back and pawned it. Of two things Nance succeeded in keeping him in ignorance.
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