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High commissioners and agents-general became increasingly important as ambassadors to London.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

Councils of colonial ambassadors, agents-general, and so on, have, I think, definitely gone the same way.

From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by Westgarth, William