admonisher

Example Sentences

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Admiral Bluewater, my memory needed no admonisher to tell me that.

From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Melville, Herman

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

Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

From Epistle to the Son of the Wolf by Bahá'u'lláh

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 Cooper, James Fenimore