maligner

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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)

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

He forgives your maligner, and slanders you with all his heart.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

His maligner and only slightly younger contemporary, Horace Walpole, in some of his letters, writes in a fashion which, putting mere slang aside, has hardly any difference from that of to-day.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

Such is Bill Pratt, honest, cheerful, and industrious, the maligner of no man.

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge