errand

“What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?”

“Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.”

“The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.”

“I'm going to town on some errands.”

“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”

“I had not taught thee then the alphabet Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set And bound up, might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely and mutually.”

“All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.”

“She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.”