despatch

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Examples

• They include signed photographs of Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, as well as paintings and a red leather despatch box.

• Send out your invitations by a servant, or man hired for the purpose; do not trust them to despatch or penny post.

• At about one o'clock the young lady approached Dr. Brownlow, and asked him to write, in her name, a despatch to Jeff.

• Eschar to be gone, I sent my letters by a porter to the posthouse in Southwark to be sent by despatch to the Downs.

• Easily enough; we can get a hoondee on this place, and send it to him in a letter, or we can despatch a man with it.

• The same weapon, a few minutes later, was used for the despatch of Egmont's friend, Count Horn.