1832 E. C. Wines I. 41 Some are employed as cooks at the galley, and others as messenger boys on the quarter deck.
1886 26 Aug. 11/1 A Wall-street banker..sent a note by a district messenger boy to the office of his broker.
1959 N. Mailer (1961) 208 I was amateur agent for it, messenger boy, editorial consultant..and I made a hundred mistakes.