During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

During summers, business was so brisk that Mrs. Wilcox had two assistants and a messenger.

His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

Hasan Ali Shah was on a hunting trip at the time, but he sent a messenger to request permission of the monarch to go to Mecca for the hajj pilgrimage.

Hajji Mirza Aqasi sent a messenger to Bahman Mirza to inform him of the spuriousness of Hasan Ali Shah's documents and a battle between Bahman Mīrzā and Hasan Ali Shah broke out in which Bahman Mirza was defeated.

As for the foremost one in the matter of Islam and faith, it was Ali ibn Abi Talib '" Other Sunnis and all Shi ' a Muslims maintain that the second person to publicly accept Muhammed as the messenger of God was Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first being Muhammad's wife Khadija.

The news of its capture was at once taken to Shiloh by a messenger " with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

One account reports that when he was handed the message, Bonaparte read it without emotion before calling the messenger to him and demanding further details.

Contrary to the canonical Christian Gospels, and in accordance with the Islamic view of Jesus, this later " Gospel of Barnabas " states that Jesus was not the son of God, but a prophet and messenger.

-- The king then rose up from amongst the assembly and forthwith directed one of his own messengers to accompany the bishop's messenger, and to tell him that the people were unanimously inclined to accept his proposal and at the same time to tell him that, whilst their action was entirely agreeable to him, he could not give his full consent until, in another assembly, which was to be held in another part of his kingdom, he could announce this resolution to the people who lived in that district.

At that time, the position next to the driver was said to be occupied by an " express messenger " or sometimes colloquially a " shotgun messenger ".

For Carl Jung Hermes was guide to the underworld is become the god of the unconscious, the mediator of information between the conscious and unconscious factors of the mind, and the archetypal messenger conveying communication between realms.

An invitation was sent out by messenger on the morning of 14 May telling recipients to arrive at 15: 30 and to keep the event a secret.

John forced the Canterbury chapter to change their support to John de Gray, and a messenger was sent to Rome to inform the papacy of the new decision.

The king, who was walking in his garden when the messenger arrived, made no reply, but kept striking off the heads of the tallest poppies with his stick.

Moses is defined in the Qur ' an as both prophet ( nabi ) and messenger ( rasul ), the latter term indicating that he was one of those prophets who brought a scripture and law to his people.

On the day after the murder of the Tsar's family, Maria received a messenger from Nicky, " a touching man " who told how difficult was the life of her son's family in Ekaterinburg.

However, the two men never met face to face and communication was either written or by messenger.

While Morse was painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father that read one line, " Your dear wife is convalescent ".

Eshu, a messenger deity who relays messages between the human world and the world of the Orishas, is depicted as a dark, short man with a large staff and often a pipe, candy or his fingers in his mouth.

) The wings at the head of the staff identified it as belonging to the winged messenger, Hermes, the Roman Mercury, who was the god of magic, diplomacy and rhetoric, of inventions and discoveries, the protector both of merchants and that allied occupation, to the mythographers ' view, of thieves.

In his left hand he holds the staff of a messenger.

Like their British counterparts, the Royal Australian Corps of Signals ' flag and hat badge feature Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, affectionately referred to by members of the corps as " Jimmy " ( the origin dates back to the merge with Engineers when the Engineer's band's Drum Major had a " Jimmy " on his staff ).

An officer messenger brought it out.

That the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers, and possessions free from search and seizure, and therefore warrants without oaths or affirmations first made, affording a sufficient foundation for them, and whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded or required to search suspected places, or to seize any person or persons, his or their property, not particularly described, are contrary to that right, and ought not to be granted.

Sutton's other disguises included a police officer, messenger and maintenance man.

This meeting, known as the Protest of Baraguá (" Protesta de Baraguá "), began when a messenger was sent to Maceo from another Cuban high officer, who proposed an ambush against the Spanish general.

The primary spirit she purportedly channeled was that of a dead Italian army officer called " Lakwena ", meaning messenger, which the Acholi believe to be a manifestation of the Christian Holy Spirit.

" Poruchik " means " messenger ", " officer for orders ".

While stopping at the imperial messenger post at Fushui ( 敷水, in modern Weinan, Shaanxi ), Yuan got into a dispute with an imperial eunuch messenger — variously reported as either Liu Shiyuan ( 劉士元 ) ( by the Book of Tang ) or Qiu Shiliang ( by the New Book of Tang ), in which the eunuch, as a result of the dispute, hit Yuan's face and injured him — Emperor Xianzong ruled that Yuan had overstepped his authorities as censor and demoted him to serve as the logistics officer at Jiangling Municipality ( 江陵, in modern Jingzhou, Hubei ), despite defenses submitted on his behalf by Li Jiang, Cui Qun, and Bai.

* Katra: A living, willful Skeleton Warrior and officer in the Shadow tribe army, he serves as a soldier and at times a messenger.

According to Aelian, a syntagma was accompanied by five additional individuals to the rear: a herald ( to act as a messenger ), a trumpeter ( to sound out commands ), an ensign ( to hold the unit's standard ), an additional officer ( called ouragos ), and a servant.

Tallard wrote a report to this effect to King Louis that morning, but hardly had he sent the messenger when the Allied army began to appear opposite his camp.

According to the document itself, the Philippians had sent Epaphroditus, their envoy (" messenger and minister " Phil.

The Æsir started to fear that they would not be able to bind Fenrir, and so Odin sent Freyr's messenger Skírnir down into the land of Svartálfaheimr to " some dwarfs " and had them make a fetter called Gleipnir.

They therefore sent a messenger for Łukasiewicz and his new lamps.

The infatuated inhabitants entrusted him with the command of their troops, and when he had obtained the unlimited confidence of the citizens, he sent a messenger to his father to inquire how he should deliver the city into his hands.

She is persuaded to release him by Odysseus ' great-grandfather, the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus in response to Athena's plea.

Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims, informed Nicholas I that a messenger whom he had sent to Leo IV learned on his way of the death of this Pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it ( Hincmar, ep.

In the Poetic Edda poem Skírnismál, Skírnir is sent as a messenger to Jötunheimr to conduct Freyr's wooing of the fair Gerðr on condition of being given Freyr's sword as a reward.

At the end of the act ( and its successor ), a boy arrives, purporting to be a messenger sent from Godot, to advise the pair that he will not be coming that " evening but surely tomorrow.

He sent a messenger named Damdam to Mecca to warn the Quraysh and get reinforcements.

Bitter, she sent a messenger to Antigone to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus ' daughter.

The same year he visited Rome and compelled Paul to write to Pepin asking him to concede all the Lombard Direct claims except that to Imola ; another letter of exactly opposite tenor was sent by the same messenger.

He sent a messenger to each of the noblemen, asking them if they approved of Intaphernes's actions ; they denied it and disavowed any connection to Intaphernes's actions, stating that they stood by their decision to appoint Darius as King of Kings.

The film had been written for Del Río, but by mistake, the messenger sent the film to Félix.

Never sent We a messenger or a prophet before thee but when He recited ( the message ) Satan proposed ( opposition ) in respect of that which he recited thereof.

Count Louis went out first with his battalion, and began to follow after the Cumans, and sent a messenger to urge the emperor to follow him.

He sent a messenger to Emperor Duzong of Song, to request immediate reinforcements.

Played by Galyn Görg, Helen was supposedly a close friend of Xena's and sent out a messenger to fetch her during the Trojan War.

A disagreement with the King of Meath resulted in Máel Sechnaill withdrawing his support ( Brian sent a messenger to find Donnchad and ask him to return with his detachment, but the call for help came too late ).