Meanings of first bearer in English

Patient sits on coat and rests against the back of the first bearer.

I believe that I am the first bearer of good news.

Frank Sinatra was the King of Pop in the mid-1940s; perhaps the first bearer of the crown.

Indeed, I was the first bearer of any definite news concerning him since the day when he sailed from Acre.

I sha'n't have any further need of anybody; the first bearer who passes can take me back to the hospital to-morrow morning.

The first Bearer that applied, waited below and sent up his recommendations.

They were the first bearers of the news of the surrender of Rennes, and the countess was filled with consternation at the intelligence.

"The doctor says these have been dead two months," volunteered the first bearer, over his shoulder.

These concrete generalities are actual feelings, the first terms in mental discourse, the first distinguishable particulars in knowledge, and the first bearers of names.

Such looks were not solely due I fear to the news from Paris, although for some time we were the first bearers of the tidings.