The first messenger arrived, shouting the news in the courtyard.

The first Messenger woke to a sudden weight on his chest.

Her first messenger having failed to return, Ukifune's mother sent a second.

There had been more stories after that first messenger, each one worse than the one before.

The first messenger didn't know anything about them.

By the time she stumped off, the first messenger boy was back from the lookout-Oligata.

Alec unlocked the door, and accepted the first messenger's offering.

For the waiting semi-sleepers these would be the first messengers of approaching death.

As another officer sped his horse after the first messenger, the general beamed upon the earth like a sun.

In 1861 the first Messenger of the Sacred Heart was published.

"More work," Regis explained to the first messenger.

Neurohormones, neuromodulators or neurotransmitters act as first messengers.

The first messenger was deputy press attaché, Heinz Lorenz.

As they were leaving the council Alan asked Jeekie if he had any tidings of his mother, who had been their first messenger.

Hasdai's first messenger found his way to Constantinople, where Byzantine authorities refused to permit him to proceed further.

(The neurotransmitter is the first messenger.)

These very finely remarked details tell us that the carver copied this netsuke from an engraving depicting the first messengers of the West.

First messenger (tenor)

First Messenger (alto)

The first messenger from Stockholm with news of the fire was from the Board of Trade who arrived Monday evening.

Various messengers are despatched; not so much after the horses, as after each other; for the first messenger never comes back, and all the rest imitate him.

His face was pale, and Alanna remembered with horror that the first messenger to Thom had been slain with poisoned arrows.

They act as "second messengers" by relaying the signals of many first messengers, such as hormones and neurotransmitters, to their physiological destinations.

Cyclic nucleotides act as second messengers when first messengers, which cannot enter the cell, instead bind to receptors in the cellular membrane.

"Survey probes-these shall commence their duties," the first messenger explained, buzzing and clicking primly in a formal version of Galactic Two. "