1 So, at last the horny-handed lady comes to her real mission.
2 Belle Watling herself answered Captain Jaffery's summons, and before he could make known his mission she shouted that the house was closed for the night.
3 He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
4 When Kennicott boasted, "We went through the mission at Santa Barbara," Harry broke in, "Yeh, that's an interesting old mission."
5 It did rather seem to me that Cuzak had been made the instrument of Antonia's special mission.
6 She had thought of speaking to the cook concerning her blunders of the previous night; but Mr. Pontellier had saved her that disagreeable mission, for which she was so poorly fitted.
7 And it was not long before all the men seemed to forget their mission.
8 He made his horse bound into a gallop almost from a walk in his haste to go upon his mission.
9 To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.
10 When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race.
11 The yeoman having thus accomplished his mission, returned to the head-quarters of the allies, which were for the present established under a venerable oak-tree, about three arrow-flights distant from the castle.
12 And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deportment of a friar, and departed to execute his mission.
13 Oliver obeyed, and followed his master on his professional mission.
14 It looks as if they always send their singular warning or token before them when starting upon their mission.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 15 All this, however, is foreign to the mission on which you sent me and will probably be very uninteresting to your severely practical mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson