admonisher
Example Sentences
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"Hurt him not," said his Highness to this effectual admonisher unto secrecy.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
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 in the course of a few days I became myself again, the admonisher was forgotten, and I could think only of the beautiful countess.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 by Various
Horace was a mild admonisher, a court satirist, fit for the gentle times of Augustus, and more fit for the reasons which I have already given.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
It was lucky we luffed as we did, for, in coming to the wind, the vessel gave a scrape that was a fearful admonisher of what would have happened in another minute.
From Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
