maligner

Example Sentences

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In vain rings the shout of the maligner on the rocks above, as the circle gathers in again closer than ever about us.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The author of the Suite de Merlin seems to have been her first maligner.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

But all the assertions of this paid maligner sink into insignificance compared with what follows.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

For this maligner of the general good, If still we fear his force, he must be woo'd; His haughty godhead we with pray'rs implore, Your scepter to release, and our just rights restore.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Somewhere or other there must have been a great deal of maligning; nor is it difficult to discover who the maligner was as far as the characters in the Annals are concerned.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson