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Meanings of secret errand in English

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Usage of secret errand in English
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The fellow was evidently a Royalist soldier, and on a secret errand.
At the Point of the Sword
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Sten Sture was then in Norway on a secret errand.
Lady Inger of Ostrat: Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III
3
Here they met the guide returning from his secret errand.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mou...
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That meant that Plummer had been away on some secret errand of his own.
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
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You may depend upon it, Colonel Burr is here on a secret errand to you.
A Dream of Empire; Or, The House of Blennerhassett
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For days I have wanted a trusty friend who could go on a secret errand for me.
Two on a Tower
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I must hurry back, for the count's people would not understand my secret errand through the tunnel.
Lazarre
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At first they both appeared embarrassed, for with his usual complaisance he was busy on a secret errand.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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It seemed not heavy enough for a man's step, but a man on secret errand might tread light.
The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise
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Peggy helped Keineth arrange the sheets in a little roll and together they started forth on their secret errand.
Keineth
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By which I understood this was a very secret errand, and like enough to land me in Derry Jail before all was done.
Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798
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He had another commission in charge from Moretti, and he worked the conversation dexterously on, till he touched the point of his secret errand.
The Master-Christian
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As they leave, Lucrezia approaches, masked, in a gondola, and is received by Gubetta, with whom she has come to Venice on some secret errand.
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
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The Air Force quietly readied its mysterious X-37B "mini-Space Shuttle," which today prowls orbit on secret errands.
Wired
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He goes on secret errands.
Plays of Gods and Men
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"Certainly, there is a boy who seems to have some secret errand."
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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