divine messenger
Example Sentences
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“Ah! ‘Monstrum is a divine messenger of catastrophe.’
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2019
As a film, it was a shambolic melodrama that seemed to treat Ramdev almost as a divine messenger.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018
From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2017
"The Bastard Executioner" stars Lee Jones as Wilkin Brattle, a 14th century warrior who is compelled by a divine messenger to lay down his weapons and lead the life of a journeyman executioner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
He could find excuses for his guilt, and fling the responsibility for firing his ambition on the divine messenger.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
