admonisher
Example Sentences
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"Fact is, Mops," said her admonisher in chief, "as I've always said, you are only fit for a provincial pack."
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
"Do you think he—will let me?" she asked of her admonisher.
From The Road to Providence by Maria Thompson Daviess
With which exclamations, followed by idle threats against his admonisher, this condign victim to justice hobbled away, as disdaining to hold further argument with such a rabble.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
But if a man censures men's lives without reproving anyone at all by name, pray do you think this man a satirist, and not rather a teacher and admonisher?
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga
I took an opportunity to give him a taste of the end of the main-clew-garnet, as an admonisher; and there the matter ended, so long as I remained in the ship.
From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper
