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town crier

noun as in maker of public announcements

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The town crier would later speak the rumor into truth, announcing that all unmarried Jewish girls had to go to the town’s registration office, for reasons which would become clear “in due course.”

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The middle-class town crier who spoke truth to Obama believed he could work miracles.

It was the Town Crier, with whom, as with a brother artist, he had picked acquaintance the day before.

The third judge, who had thus far been silent, now called out in a veritable town-crier voice: Heede ye!

At the appointed hour the town-crier proclaimed the meeting, and the church-bells of the city also gave the annunciation.

In the evening the town-crier went to and fro announcing the opening of the ball.

Nathalie now played the part of town crier and rushed hither and thither inviting the guests to their camp nest in the woods.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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