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Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The promiser bound himself by some solemn and formal mode of adjuration, accompanied, in important cases, with certain ceremonies, which were supposed to seal and confirm the obligation assumed.

From Hannibal Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

But even after acceptance a promise is not a contract, for the promiser may not choose to bind himself in justice, but only in good faith, while the promisee is under no obligation whatever.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

HAM, second officer and engineer of the Ark. HAMED, Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion promiser, and a sick man.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie