intelligencer

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Arnold's flight seems to have frightened all my intelligencers out of their senses.

From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

"You speak strange matter," he added, "and there be intelligencers everywhere."

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

The poor he accounts the Justices' intelligencers, and cannot abide them.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Not only did the Jews bring to Europe new articles of food and luxury, but they served the various States as envoys and as intelligencers.

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Abrahams, Israel

Nathaniel Butter, the publisher of "The certain Newes of this present Week," lived at the Pyde-Bull, St. Austin's-gate, and was the proprietor of several of the intelligencers, from 1622 to about 1640.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John